Director of Engineering, Webapp & AI Attack

The role

You will lead engineering teams to turn Webapp and AI related offensive security expertise into NodeZero capabilities. You will own the strategy, execution, and organizational health for this portfolio.

What you will do

• Lead and develop the Webapp and AI Attack engineering teams.
• Define a coherent strategy and roadmap connecting customer needs and product priorities.
• Hire, coach, and develop engineering managers, technical leaders, and senior individual contributors.
• Set operating mechanisms for visibility of outcomes, progress, and risks.
• Own organization health including talent planning and career development.
• Set direction for NodeZero web application attack portfolio.
• Set strategy for turning AI/LLM and agentic-system security research into NodeZero capabilities.
• Partner with Product and leaders across Engineering, Platform, and customer-facing functions.
• Drive complex, cross-team initiatives from planning through production.
• Maintain technical depth to evaluate architecture and engineering quality.

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 multiple teams.
• Strong technical judgment in software architecture, automation, distributed systems, and production operations.
• Experience taking complex capabilities from early research or concept through production delivery.
• 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, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Familiarity with offensive security, web application penetration testing, vulnerability research, attack automation, or building security products.

Nice to have

• Direct leadership experience across both web application security and AI/LLM security
• Experience with web crawling, spidering, browser automation, application discovery, or authentication technologies such as SSO, SAML, or OIDC
• Experience shipping AI/LLM security capabilities, building agentic workflows, or applying frameworks such as OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications or MITRE ATLAS
• Contributions to security research, open-source tooling, technical publications, or conference talks
• Experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience with graph or relational databases such as Neo4j or PostgreSQL
• Offensive security certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, or OSWE

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. Their flagship product is the NodeZero platform.