Director of Engineering

The role

You will lead teams building agentic AI for Governance, Risk, and Compliance. You will run day-to-day engineering execution, grow engineers and managers, and make architectural decisions.

What you will do

• Run engineering execution across multiple teams with weekly ship cycles.
• Hire, onboard, and develop senior engineers and first-line managers.
• Guide the architecture of LLM orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, and agentic workflow systems.
• Establish standards for code review, testing, LLM evaluations, observability, on-call, and incident response.
• Partner with security and GRC leads to meet enterprise requirements.
• Join technical conversations with customers.
• Work with product and GRC experts to turn customer feedback into engineering work.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 4+ years managing engineers.
• 2+ years leading managers or multiple teams.
• Hands-on experience shipping AI/ML, LLM, or agentic systems to production for enterprise customers.
• Demonstrated experience hiring and scaling engineering teams at a high-growth, product-led company.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Background in security, infrastructure, GRC, or enterprise SaaS.
• Experience as a founder or early engineering leader (employee #1–20).
• Experience meeting enterprise security requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP) for your own platform.
• A network of strong engineers in the Bay Area.

Benefits

• Competitive salary + significant equity
• Flexible PTO
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Meals and snacks in the office
• Relocation and immigration support

About the company

Zania is building agentic AI for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC). The company is funded by a leading Tier 1 venture capital fund, including NEA, Anthropic, and Menlo Ventures.