Senior Director, Engineering, Precision Defense

The role

You will set engineering direction and build the organization that turns NodeZero's offensive capabilities into proactive, actionable defense. You will lead three pillars including Tripwires and Deception, Security Controls Validation, and Blue Team Agents.

What you will do

• Lead and scale the Precision Defense engineering organization
• Turn the organization's charter into a technical strategy, operating model, and roadmap
• Build an effective leadership structure including engineering managers and technical leads
• Establish goals and operating mechanisms for progress, quality, staffing, and risks
• Partner with technical leads on architecture and design
• Prioritize work across emerging-threat response, offensive engineering, deception, security-control validation, and agent-driven remediation
• Translate ambiguous goals into focused plans with explicit scope and measurable outcomes
• Ensure engineering investment supports a coherent customer experience
• Communicate decisions clearly and protect teams from competing priorities
• Connect technical plans to customer needs and company priorities

Required qualifications

• Significant experience leading SaaS or cloud service engineering organizations
• Track record setting engineering strategy and delivering across multiple teams or product areas
• Strong technical judgment in cloud software, distributed systems, platform engineering, or similarly complex production environments
• Ability to engage credibly in architecture and design discussions
• Sound judgment about AI- or agent-enabled products limitations, verification, and safe operation
• Ability to turn ambiguous objectives into sequenced execution and manage scope and dependencies
• Experience partnering closely with Product and cross-functional stakeholders
• People-first leadership approach with experience hiring, coaching, and developing high-performing teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have

• Familiarity with security engineering, offensive security, vulnerability response, detection, or security-control validation
• Experience leading engineering in cybersecurity, penetration testing, security operations, or defensive security products
• Background spanning offensive security and defensive control platforms, such as endpoint, identity, network, or data security
• Experience building agent platforms or product workflows that connect detection, decision-making, and verified remediation
• Experience scaling a product organization from an early-stage team into multiple delivery teams
• Experience building strategic technical partnerships or working with managed security service providers (MSSPs)

Benefits

• Equity package in the form of stock options
• Health, vision & dental insurance for you and your family
• Flexible vacation policy
• Generous parental leave

About the company

Horizon3 is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company dedicated to enabling organizations to proactively find, fix and verify exploitable attack vectors. The team is a fusion of former U.S. Special Operations cyber operators, startup engineers and operators, and formerly frustrated cybersecurity practitioners.