Director of Engineering - MetaDefender Email Security
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Work from anywhere — a worldwide, remote-friendly role with a preference for the UK, USA, or a location near an OPSWAT-operated country.Full-TimeDirector
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years leading engineering teams
- Required Skills
- CybersecurityCI/CDDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Full agentic development experience: personally run a full agentic, AI-powered SDLC end-to-end in high-security environments.
- Proven experience taking a product from spec to release using an end-to-end AI-assisted lifecycle.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience.
- 3+ years leading engineering teams (including managing managers/leads).
- Strong, current software engineering fundamentals, design patterns, and SOLID principles.
- Proven history building scalable, distributed solutions including relational/document databases and cloud-native services.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and align engineers across countries and time zones.
- Experience with performance-based leadership and rigorous talent management.
- Security-conscious by default in design, code review, and incident response.
Responsibilities
- Lead as an AI-first effort: make AI agents a first-class part of how the team works.
- Remain directly in the codebase: setting architecture patterns, writing and reviewing critical code, prototyping, and unblocking hard technical problems.
- Own end-to-end delivery of the roadmap: turning the 'what to ship' into the 'how to build'.
- Drive the architecture and technology choices that underpin a product serving high-assurance environments.
- Build and lead a high-performance team: recruit, develop, and retain top engineers and their leads across Romania and Hungary.
- Drive performance-based management: set clear, measurable expectations and run a rigorous, fair performance culture.
- Champion code review with a security lens for both human-written and AI-generated code.
- Continuously improve how the team works: CI/CD pipelines, AI-assisted development workflows, incident response, and operational maturity.
- Partner cross-functionally with the VP, Products, Product Management, Design, and security leaders.
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