Senior Director, Engineering, Precision Defense

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $270k - $365k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

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Horizon3.ai

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2019

🔒 Cybersecurity

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence • SaaS

Horizon3. ai is a cybersecurity company that specializes in autonomous penetration testing through its platform, NodeZero. The company's mission is to proactively identify and address attack vectors before they can be exploited, allowing organizations to continuously assess their security posture across various environments including cloud, IoT, and on-premises systems. Founded by veterans from the US Special Operations and National Security sectors, Horizon3. ai offers a self-service SaaS solution that provides organizations with insights into their security vulnerabilities without requiring persistent or credentialed agents.

📋 Description

• Lead and scale the Precision Defense engineering organization • Define technical strategy, operating model, and sequenced roadmap • Build leadership structures and develop engineering managers, technical leads, and senior individual contributors • Establish goals and operating mechanisms to make progress, quality, staffing needs, and risks visible • Partner with technical leads on architecture and design • Prioritize work across emerging-threat response, offensive engineering, deception, security-control validation, and agent-driven remediation • Translate ambiguous goals into focused plans with explicit scope and measurable outcomes • Manage cross-team dependencies and protect teams from competing priorities • Ensure engineering investment supports a coherent customer experience • Partner with Product, NodeZero engineering, and customer-facing teams to align technical plans with customer and company priorities • Turn NodeZero's offensive capabilities into proactive, actionable defense across tripwires and deception, security controls validation, and blue team agents

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience leading SaaS or cloud service engineering organizations delivering complex software products • Experience scaling teams through managers and technical leaders • Track record setting engineering strategy and delivering across multiple teams or product areas in a fast-moving environment • Strong technical judgment in cloud software, distributed systems, platform engineering, or similarly complex production environments • Ability to engage credibly in architecture and design discussions • Experience with AI- or agent-enabled products in production is valuable • Sound judgment about AI/agent limitations, verification, and safe operation • Ability to turn ambiguous objectives into sequenced execution, manage scope and dependencies, and communicate risks and tradeoffs clearly • Experience partnering with Product and cross-functional stakeholders • Experience hiring, coaching, and developing high-performing teams across disciplines • Excellent written and verbal communication • Sound judgment and a high degree of ownership and accountability • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • Familiarity with security engineering, offensive security, vulnerability response, detection, or security-control validation is nice to have • Experience leading engineering in cybersecurity, penetration testing, security operations, or defensive security products is nice to have • Experience building agent platforms or product workflows connecting detection, decision-making, and verified remediation is nice to have • Experience building strategic technical partnerships or working with MSSPs is nice to have • Legally authorized to work in the United States • Must answer whether employment visa sponsorship will be required

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity package in the form of stock options for all full-time roles • Health, vision, and dental insurance for you and your family • Flexible vacation policy • Generous parental leave • Career development opportunities • Inclusive and collaborative work culture • Remote and hybrid work models depending on role and location • Up to 15% travel may be required