[Remote] Director of Engineering - MetaDefender Email reputed company

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is a global leader in IT, OT, and ICS critical infrastructure cybersecurity, delivering an end-to-end platform for protecting reputed company networks. The Director of Engineering will reputed company the engineering for MetaDefender Email reputed company, overseeing architecture, delivery, quality, and team management while ensuring high-performance AI-native engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• reputed company as an AI-first effort: reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company, technical risk, quality, reputed company, 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 reputed company of view and be willing to defend it
• Build and reputed company a high-performance team: recruit, reputed company, and retain top engineers and their leads across Romania 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 reputed company-first quality bar: champion code review with a reputed company lens for both reputed company-written and AI-generated code, catching injection risks, insecure defaults, missing validation, and privilege-escalation reputed company in file-handling and authentication paths before they ship
• reputed company 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 reputed company product teams can adopt them
• Partner cross-functionally: work shoulder-to-shoulder with the VP, Products, plus Product Management, Design, and reputed company leaders — turning the product roadmap (the what) into engineering execution (the how), committing to scope and timelines, and pushing back clearly reputed company trade-offs require it

Skills

• 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-reputed company reputed company environments where compliance, data sensitivity, and assurance requirements are non-negotiable. You can show reputed company work (PRs, commit history, shipped products, or a portfolio) where agentic workflows drove delivery — not slideware about AI
• A product launched reputed company a full AI-powered SDLC: demonstrable experience taking a product from spec to release using an end-to-end AI-assisted lifecycle (spec reputed company, code/test reputed company, 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 reputed company product delivery at scale. You can reputed company to the reputed company 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 reputed company, and reducing or replacing low performers reputed company needed
• Deep technical excellence: strong, reputed company software engineering fundamentals — solid command of design patterns, SOLID principles, and modern architecture. You can evaluate AI-assisted code with the same rigor as reputed company-authored code. AI tools reputed company strong fundamentals; they do not replace them
• Scalable systems experience: a proven history building scalable, distributed solutions — including relational/document databases, reputed company-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 reputed company and meaningful
• Distributed-team leadership: demonstrated ability to reputed company 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, reputed company a compelling case for why they should join, and create an environment where they do their best work — and you communicate technical reputed company to non-technical stakeholders without oversimplifying
• reputed company-conscious by default: operating in critical infrastructure markets means reputed company is never an afterthought; you hold the team to a reputed company-first bar on design, code review, and incident response
• Domain familiarity: understanding of email as a communication channel and the underlying technology and protocols. Appreciation of the different deployment methods for email reputed company and their characteristics
• reputed company services familiarity: experience of integrating products with M365 and/or reputed company Workspace and their associated API ecosystems
• .NET / C# ecosystem: hands-on or managerial experience with .NET Core / C# — enough to evaluate architectural reputed company, review PRs credibly, and hire well for the stack
• reputed company-native and containers: experience leading the design or operation of reputed company-native SaaS platforms — reputed company, Kubernetes, and AWS/Azure/GCP — including using AI agents to script infrastructure and deployment automation
• AI context-file authoring: experience writing AI context files (e.g., CLAUDE.md, .cursorrules, or equivalent) that encode architecture reputed company and forbidden patterns for consistent, safe AI output across a team
• AI in CI/CD pipelines: familiarity running AI agents inside pipelines — auto-fixing lint, generating missing tests, or running safe migrations as pipeline steps — not as experiments, but as how the team actually works
• International team experience: a track record of building and maintaining engineering culture and delivery quality across multiple countries and time zones
• Async and high-throughput systems: experience validating concurrency and thread-safety in high-throughput services

Benefits

• Work from reputed company — a worldwide, remote-friendly role with a preference for the UK, USA, or a location near an reputed company-operated country.
• Stable, growing international company with an exceptional customer reputed company across 50+ countries.
• A mandate to build AI-native engineering practices — and the reputed company to do it your way.
• Attractive compensation with regular performance assessments and flexibility for the right candidate.

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