Senior Director, Engineering – Proactive Offense

The role

You will set the engineering direction and build the organization that turns offensive security research and capabilities into NodeZero products. You will lead through engineering managers, technical leaders, and senior individual contributors across multiple teams.

What you will do

• Lead and scale the Proactive Offense engineering organization
• Translate the organization's charter into technical strategy, operating model, and roadmap
• Hire, coach, and develop managers, technical leaders, and senior individual contributors
• Establish goals and operating mechanisms for progress, quality, and risk visibility
• Partner with technical leaders on architecture and design
• Partner with Product and other engineering teams to prioritize work
• Shape a coherent portfolio roadmap
• Drive capabilities from proof of concept to production
• Ensure engineering investment advances customer outcomes
• Improve execution by establishing planning, decision-making, and delivery practices

Required qualifications

• Significant experience leading and scaling software engineering organizations delivering SaaS or cybersecurity products
• Track record of setting engineering strategy and delivering across multiple teams or product areas
• Strong technical judgment in software architecture and offensive security domains
• Success taking complex technical capabilities from concept through production launch
• Experience with distributed systems, cloud software, automation, and large-scale SaaS platforms
• Experience hiring, coaching, and developing high-performing teams and leaders
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills
• Excellent analytical, written, verbal, and storytelling skills
• High degree of initiative, ownership, and accountability
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Python, Go, C++, or C#
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and services such as AWS, Azure, or GCP

Nice to have

• Offensive security certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, OSED, or GPEN
• Experience mentoring teams on offensive tradecraft or developing proprietary offensive tooling
• Experience scaling an engineering organization through significant hiring, organizational change, or product growth
• Experience building B2B SaaS or security products in a startup or growth-stage company

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 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.