Director of Engineering – MetaDefender Email Security

🕒 June 29

🌏 Anywhere in the World

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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OPSWAT

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2002

🔒 Cybersecurity

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

💰 $125M Private Equity Round on 2021-03

Cybersecurity • Enterprise • SaaS

OPSWAT is a cybersecurity company specializing in comprehensive IT and OT defense solutions. With over 20 years of innovation, OPSWAT provides advanced threat prevention through its MetaDefender Platform, which integrates a multitude of security technologies aimed at protecting critical infrastructures globally. The platform includes solutions for file security, email security, malware analysis, and more, targeting both public and private sector organizations. OPSWAT emphasizes its commitment to securing both traditional IT environments and operational technology (OT) networks, ensuring robust defense mechanisms against a wide array of cybersecurity threats. Trusted by over 1,700 customers worldwide, OPSWAT is a leader in the cybersecurity industry, known for its partnerships and certifications, as well as its comprehensive support and training services.

📋 Description

• Lead AI-first engineering practices by orchestrating agents for specifications, code, tests, verification, and reviews while ensuring human validation • Stay hands-on in the codebase by setting architecture patterns, writing and reviewing critical code, prototyping, and resolving complex technical problems • Own end-to-end delivery of the Product Management roadmap across on-premises and cloud-native deployment models • Drive architecture and technology decisions for scalable, high-assurance environments • Recruit, develop, and retain engineering talent and leads across Romania and Hungary • Establish clear career paths and standards for code quality and review • Run rigorous, fair, performance-based management • Enforce security-focused quality standards for human-written and AI-generated code • Improve CI/CD pipelines, AI-assisted development workflows, incident response, and operational maturity • Codify AI-native playbooks, context files, coding harnesses, test frameworks, and review norms for broader OPSWAT adoption • Partner with the VP, Products, Product Management, Design, and security leaders on scope, timelines, trade-offs, and execution

🎯 Requirements

• Personally run a full agentic, AI-powered SDLC end-to-end in B2B and high-security enterprise environments • Demonstrable experience taking a product from specification to release using a full AI-assisted lifecycle • 8+ years of software engineering experience • 3+ years leading engineering teams, including managing managers/leads, through complex product delivery at scale • Track record of building high-performing teams through rigorous, fair performance management • Strong, current software engineering fundamentals, including design patterns, SOLID principles, and modern architecture • Proven history building scalable, distributed solutions, including relational/document databases, cloud-native services, and modern CI/CD systems • High standard for tested, maintainable code and meaningful test coverage • Ability to lead and align engineers across countries and time zones in a remote/hybrid, multi-country setup • Ability to identify strong engineers, attract talent, and communicate technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders • Security-first approach to design, code review, and incident response • Domain familiarity with email technology and protocols (nice to have) • Experience integrating products with Microsoft 365 and/or Google Workspace and associated API ecosystems (nice to have) • .NET Core/C# experience (nice to have) • Experience with cloud-native SaaS platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS/Azure/GCP (nice to have) • Experience writing AI context files such as CLAUDE.md or .cursorrules (nice to have) • Familiarity with AI agents in CI/CD pipelines (nice to have) • International team experience (nice to have) • Experience validating concurrency and thread-safety in high-throughput services (nice to have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Work from anywhere in a worldwide, remote-friendly role • Attractive compensation with regular performance assessments • Flexibility for the right candidate • Opportunity to lead a product trusted by critical infrastructure customers • Opportunity to influence AI-native engineering practices across OPSWAT’s engineering portfolio • Stable, growing international company • Exceptional customer base across 50+ countries