Technical Director, Architecture (Cybersecurity)

Location: Tel Aviv office, Israel; based in Israel and working from the Tel Aviv office

Company

hirify.global is an exposure management and cybersecurity company whose solutions help organizations understand and reduce cyber risk.

What you will do

• Own technical direction for engineering problems spanning product lines and ownership boundaries in Israel.
• Partner with Product Management to challenge requirements and reshape them into scalable solutions.
• Write code, review designs and pull requests, debug distributed failures, and build prototypes to validate architectural decisions.
• Collaborate with directors, senior staff, principal engineers, and the architecture team while mentoring engineers at every stage.
• Use AI across design, coding, and investigation, identify where it accelerates or misleads, and help shape future software development practices.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful depth in architecture at scale; many architecture team members have 15+ years.
• Deep experience with distributed systems and cloud computing.
• Previous CTO, Chief Architect, or equivalent senior architecture experience.
• Hands-on ability to read unfamiliar codebases, contribute in the required language, debug distributed failures, and review code authoritatively.
• Generalist experience shipping across more than one of services, data, infrastructure, or delivery, with the ability to become productive in a new domain within weeks.
• Demonstrated technical authority based on sound judgment and earned respect.
• Working fluency with AI-assisted development, including its failure modes.
• Strong written and verbal English communication and comfort working across a seven-hour time zone gap.
• Based in Israel and working from the Tel Aviv office.

Nice to have

• Experience with data processing and streaming technologies such as Kafka, Spark, or Flink; cloud platforms and Kubernetes; or CI/CD and release engineering.
• Experience with cybersecurity or security product platforms.
• Experience modernizing organizations from legacy patterns to modern architecture.
• Experience with platform engineering patterns, FinOps, and cost optimization at scale.
• Patents, public technical writing, or open-source contributions.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative culture focused on belonging, respect, excellence, and building cybersecurity solutions.
• Work with engineering and architecture professionals across global product groups.
• Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodation support are provided during the application and recruiting process.