Senior Director, Engineering – Proactive Offense

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $315k - $370k / 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 Proactive Offense engineering organization across offensive capabilities, exploit development, and attack automation teams within NodeZero • Translate the organization’s charter into technical strategy, operating model, and sequenced roadmap • Build leadership structure and hire, coach, and develop managers, technical leaders, and senior individual contributors • Establish goals and operating mechanisms that make progress, quality, capacity, dependencies, and risks visible • Partner with technical leaders on architecture and design and evaluate tradeoffs • Prioritize work across offensive research, vulnerability exploitation, attack content, and automation with Product, Precision Defense, Platform, and customer-facing teams • Shape portfolio roadmaps and translate ambiguous opportunities into focused plans with measurable outcomes • Drive capabilities from proof of concept to reliable, scalable, supportable production features • Balance customer outcomes, technical quality, speed to market, operational needs, and responsible product behavior • Improve planning, decision-making, and delivery practices across multiple teams • Hold the organization accountable for product quality, reliability, and maintainability • Identify risks, align mitigation owners, and communicate material changes to stakeholders • Use customer feedback, product performance, and engineering signals to evaluate results and improve delivery • Guide consequential technical decisions and complex architectural or delivery challenges • Mentor technical leaders in building modular, resilient systems that translate offensive tradecraft into scalable NodeZero capabilities • Collaborate across Engineering, Product, and go-to-market teams • Foster collaboration, creativity, learning, and engineering excellence

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience leading and scaling software engineering organizations delivering SaaS or cybersecurity products • Experience leading through managers and senior technical leaders • Track record of setting engineering strategy and delivering across multiple teams or product areas in a fast-moving environment • Strong technical judgment in software architecture and offensive security domains such as exploit development, vulnerability research, attack automation, or red teaming • Success taking complex technical capabilities from concept through production launch and continued operation at scale • Experience with distributed systems, cloud software, automation, and large-scale SaaS platforms • Product-oriented judgment balancing technical excellence, customer impact, speed to market, and operational considerations • Experience hiring, coaching, and developing high-performing teams and leaders • Strong cross-functional partnership skills with Product, Engineering, and go-to-market teams • Excellent analytical, written, verbal, and storytelling 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 • Deep familiarity with offensive security techniques, including vulnerability research, exploit development, attack automation, or red-team operations • Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Python, Go, C++, or C# • Strong understanding of platform design, system architecture, automation pipelines, CI/CD, containerization, infrastructure as code, and observability • Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and production SaaS or security platforms • Familiarity with network protocols, Windows, Linux, and common enterprise technologies • Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, Neo4j, or similar databases and data-flow design • Awareness of cybersecurity industry standards and trends • Offensive security certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, OSED, or GPEN are bonus qualifications • Experience mentoring teams on offensive tradecraft or developing proprietary offensive tooling is a bonus qualification • Experience scaling an engineering organization through significant hiring, organizational change, or product growth is a bonus qualification • Experience building B2B SaaS or security products in a startup or growth-stage company is a bonus qualification

🏖️ 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 culture • Collaborative environment encouraging creativity and out-of-the-box thinking • Remote and hybrid work models depending on role and location • Up to 10% travel may be required