Director of Engineering – Managed File Transfer

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

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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 as an AI-first effort: make AI agents a first-class part of how the team works — orchestrating agents to create specs, generate code and tests, verify results, and run reviews — while ensuring humans own and validate every line that ships. Treat automation and intelligence as the default, not the exception. • Stay hands-on: remain directly in the codebase — setting architecture patterns, writing and reviewing critical code, prototyping, and unblocking hard technical problems. You lead by doing, not only by delegating. • Own end-to-end delivery of the roadmap: take full ownership of delivering the product roadmap set by Product Management — turning the “what to ship” into the “how to build,” and owning execution sequencing, technical risk, quality, security, and release across every deployment form factor. • Set technical direction (the “how”): drive the architecture and technology choices that underpin a product serving high-assurance environments at scale. Hold a strong engineering point of view and be willing to defend it. • Build and lead a high-performance team: recruit, develop, and retain top engineers and their leads across Romania, Vietnam, and Hungary; create clear career paths and norms for code quality and review; and build a culture where strong engineers want to stay and grow. • Drive performance-based management: set clear, measurable expectations and run a rigorous, fair performance culture — recognizing and accelerating top performers, raising the bar continuously, and addressing underperformance decisively by coaching where there is a path and upgrading or exiting the role where there is not. • Hold a security-first quality bar: champion code review with a security lens for both human-written and AI-generated code, catching injection risks, insecure defaults, missing validation, and privilege-escalation vectors in file-handling and authentication paths before they ship. • Raise engineering velocity: continuously improve how the team works — CI/CD pipelines, AI-assisted development workflows, incident response, and operational maturity — so the team ships faster and more reliably over time. • Codify AI-native practices for the portfolio: establish the playbooks, AI context files, coding harnesses, test frameworks, and review norms developed on this product so other OPSWAT product teams can adopt them. • Partner cross-functionally: work shoulder-to-shoulder with the VP, Products, plus Product Management, Design, and security leaders — turning the product roadmap (the what) into engineering execution (the how), committing to scope and timelines, and pushing back clearly when trade-offs require it.

🎯 Requirements

• Full agentic development experience (required): you have personally run a full agentic, AI-powered SDLC end to end — and have done so in B2B and high-security enterprise environments where compliance, data sensitivity, and assurance requirements are non-negotiable. You can show real work (PRs, commit history, shipped products, or a portfolio) where agentic workflows drove delivery — not slideware about AI. • A product launched via a full AI-powered SDLC: demonstrable experience taking a product from spec to release using an end-to-end AI-assisted lifecycle (spec generation, code/test generation, automated verification, AI-assisted review, and CI/CD), with you accountable for the outcome. • Proven engineering leadership: 8+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years leading engineering teams (including managing managers/leads) through complex product delivery at scale. You can point to the decisions you made and why. • Performance-based leadership: a track record of building high-performing teams through rigorous, fair performance management — promoting excellence, making timely talent decisions, and reducing or replacing low performers when needed. • Deep technical excellence: strong, current software engineering fundamentals — solid command of design patterns, SOLID principles, and modern architecture. You can evaluate AI-assisted code with the same rigor as human-authored code. AI tools amplify strong fundamentals; they do not replace them. • Scalable systems experience: a proven history building scalable, distributed solutions — including relational/document databases, cloud-native services, and modern CI/CD systems. • Quality and test discipline: a high bar for tested, maintainable code; you use AI to accelerate test scaffolding, then validate that coverage is real and meaningful. • Distributed-team leadership: demonstrated ability to lead and align engineers across countries and time zones, building trust, clarity, and accountability in a remote/hybrid, multi-country setup. • Talent magnet and clear communicator: you identify strong engineers, make a compelling case for why they should join, and create an environment where they do their best work — and you communicate technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders without oversimplifying. • Security-conscious by default: operating in critical infrastructure markets means security is never an afterthought; you hold the team to a security-first bar on design, code review, and incident response.

🏖️ Benefits

• Lead a product trusted by critical infrastructure customers across air-gapped, cross-domain, internet-connected, and native-cloud deployments — the architecture and culture decisions you make now will shape it for years. • Influence beyond this product: the AI-native patterns you establish will propagate across OPSWAT’s engineering portfolio. • Work from anywhere — a worldwide, remote-friendly role with a preference for the UK, USA, or a location near an OPSWAT-operated country. • Stable, growing international company with an exceptional customer base across 50+ countries. • A mandate to build AI-native engineering practices — and the latitude to do it your way. • Attractive compensation with regular performance assessments and flexibility for the right candidate.