Director, Software Engineering

The role

You will own the engineering organization for the flagship analyst product deployed across cloud and customer private cloud environments. You will lead engineering managers and their teams spanning platform infrastructure, enterprise capabilities, and customer-facing product features.

What you will do

• Own engineering execution across the product including delivery, quality, and technical accountability.
• Lead, develop, and hold accountable a set of engineering managers.
• Drive org design decisions regarding team scope, composition, and sequencing.
• Balance engineering capacity across teams and make prioritization calls.
• Own the technical roadmap in partnership with the product manager.
• Engage at the architecture level with senior ICs to review designs and provide guidance.
• Supervise hiring across engineering teams.
• Partner with the VP of Engineering on org strategy and headcount planning.
• Communicate progress, risks, and tradeoffs to senior leadership.
• Ensure engineering practices meet standards for mission-critical deployments.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 5+ years of engineering management experience, including at least 3 years managing other engineering managers.
• Track record of owning engineering execution across multiple teams simultaneously.
• Architectural judgment to engage with senior ICs on complex stacks.
• Experience owning org design decisions.
• Experience managing engineering organizations serving both cloud-hosted and on-premises or customer-controlled environments.
• Experience partnering with product managers to translate requirements into technical roadmaps.
• Experience supervising hiring across multiple teams.
• Must be eligible to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance.

Nice to have

• Experience in defense, intelligence, or national security technology environments.
• Led engineering organizations building operational platforms for government or mission-critical customers.
• Worked with graph databases or graph-based modeling for complex analytical problems.
• Led teams shipping enterprise features: multi-tenancy, RBAC, audit logging, or similar.
• Experience with secure development practices for government or controlled environments.
• Scaled an engineering organization through a rapid growth phase, including adding management layers.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plan options.
• Life / AD&D, disability coverage options.
• Paid parental leave: 12 weeks for birthing parents, 4 weeks for non-birthing parents, 6 weeks for adoptive, foster, or intended parents.
• Paid holidays and flexible PTO.
• 401(k) with pre-tax and Roth options.
• HSA/FSA options.
• Dependent care FSA.

Before you apply

• Role is limited to U.S. citizens.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.

About the company

Founded in 2024, Twenty Technologies industrializes offensive cyber operations for the U.S. and its allies. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, Twenty has raised $168M from various investors.