Director of Engineering, Threat Research

The role

You will lead the engineering teams for NodeZero Rapid Response and Threat Hunting products. You will own the engineering strategy, execution, and organizational health while building a follow-the-sun vulnerability research capability.

What you will do

• Lead and develop the engineering organizations for Rapid Response and Threat Hunting.
• Define engineering strategy and roadmap connecting customer needs and product priorities.
• Build leadership structure including hiring and coaching managers and technical leaders.
• Own organizational health including talent planning and performance.
• Establish operating mechanisms for visibility into priorities and risks.
• Lead engineering strategy for Rapid Response to build a superior experience.
• Enable teams to build automation and AI-assisted research workflows.
• Build and lead a follow-the-sun vulnerability research organization in Europe and Asia.
• Lead engineering direction for NodeZero Threat Hunting capabilities.
• Partner with Product, Design, and other departments to translate opportunities into plans.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience leading software engineering teams that build customer-facing products.
• Experience leading multiple teams and developing managers and senior technical leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to set strategy and deliver across a portfolio.
• Experience building or scaling distributed teams and operational coverage across regions and time zones.
• Strong technical judgment in software architecture, automation, data systems, and production operations.
• Experience taking technically complex capabilities from research or prototype to production.
• Customer-oriented product mindset.
• Ability to build effective partnerships across Engineering, Product, and customer-facing teams.
• Commitment to coaching, clear performance feedback, and inclusive leadership.
• Excellent written, verbal, and analytical communication skills.
• High degree of initiative, ownership, and accountability.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Deep practical experience in vulnerability research, exploitability analysis, threat hunting, incident response, or detection engineering.
• Familiarity with SOC, threat-hunting, or incident-response workflows; security telemetry; attack techniques; and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
• Direct leadership experience in vulnerability research, exploit development, threat intelligence, threat hunting, incident response, or security product engineering.
• Experience building or operating AI/LLM-assisted research, analysis, or security workflows.
• Experience building follow-the-sun teams or leading global, time-sensitive operations.
• Contributions to vulnerability research, published advisories, open-source tooling, technical publications, or conference talks.
• Familiarity with reverse engineering or languages such as C, C++, Rust, or Assembly.
• Experience working with cloud environments and large-scale software products.

Benefits

• Inclusive Team
• Growth Opportunities
• Innovative Culture
• Hybrid & Remote Work
• Competitive Compensation
• 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 the mission of enabling organizations to proactively find and fix and verify exploitable attack vectors. The team is a fusion of former U.S. Special Operations cyber operators, startup engineers, and formerly frustrated cybersecurity practitioners.