Director of Engineering, Webapp & AI Attack
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Horizon3Cybersecurity
US, RemoteFull-TimeDirector
SalaryThe base salary range for this position is $290,000-$340,000. Additional compensation: All full-time roles are eligible for an equity package in the form of stock options.
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- PythonSoftware ArchitectureTypeScriptDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Significant experience leading software engineering teams building customer-facing products.
- Experience leading multiple teams and developing managers and senior technical leaders.
- Track record of setting strategy and delivering across teams, translating customer and business priorities into roadmaps and measurable outcomes.
- Strong technical judgment in software architecture, automation, distributed systems, and production operations.
- Experience taking complex capabilities from research or concept through reliable production delivery and ongoing improvement.
- Familiarity with offensive security, web application penetration testing, vulnerability research, attack automation, or security products.
- Working knowledge of modern web application architecture, HTTP, authentication and session flows, APIs, browser automation, and testing applications at scale.
- Familiarity with AI/LLM and agentic-system security, including trust boundaries, tool-use risks, and evaluation approaches.
- Experience with cloud software and production platforms, and fluency in at least one modern programming language such as Python, TypeScript, or Go.
- Understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, observability, incident response, and operational readiness.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Ability to coach teams, provide clear performance feedback, and build inclusive, healthy team environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the Webapp and AI Attack engineering teams, setting ownership, goals, and expectations.
- Define portfolio strategy and roadmaps that connect customer needs, product priorities, offensive research, and engineering investments.
- Build the leadership structure and hire, coach, and develop engineering managers, technical leaders, and senior individual contributors.
- Set direction for NodeZero's web application attack portfolio, including application discovery, crawling, browser automation, authentication, and attack coverage.
- Guide teams in assessing AI applications and infrastructure, including trust boundaries, permissions, tool use, data sources, and deployment patterns.
- Turn AI and agentic-system security research into safe, reliable, repeatable attack capabilities in NodeZero.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Platform, and customer-facing teams to sequence plans, align stakeholders, and make tradeoffs.
- Drive cross-team initiatives from planning through production, identifying dependencies and risks early.
- Establish engineering practices and quality standards for testing, release, monitoring, incident response, and production readiness.
- Use customer feedback and product and engineering signals to assess results and improve delivery.
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