Director of Engineering - Application Security

Director Engineering, Total App Sec

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

We are seeking an experienced & talented Director Engineering, Total Application Security. Working with team of managers & engineers, you will be responsible for overall Engineering of highly scalable SaaS based product, which is part of Qualys’ Security SaaS platform.

Responsibilities:

• Drive product roadmap working with Product management & other teams.
• Lead Engineering team comprising of managers and Dev & QA engineers, owning the overall delivery responsibility of set of products.
• Deliver distributed, high-performance, scalable containerized micro service-based solutions.
• Build partnerships within team members and other product & cross-functional teams, viz Ops & Support.
• Manage and grow the team through hiring & training.
• Set & communicate objectives, schedules, priorities, and status to all stakeholders.
• Drive product architecture initiatives working with platform & other product teams.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and demonstrate measurable progress in Quality through metrics.
• Drive overall functional & non-functional Development & QA aspects of product releases.
• Drive Performance & scalability strategy, testing & sizing of the product.
• Work with PM & engineering team to help prioritize features & issues.
• Drive DevOps & automation roadmap adopting next-gen technologies.
• Address any customer issues that get escalated to Engineering team time-to-time.

Qualifications:

• 18+ years of strong hands-on Engineering experience, including 5+ years in Engineering leadership.
• Proven leadership skills to align the team & achieve desired outcomes.
• Experience in building product architecture & quality strategy for Cloud-native products/solutions, focusing on both functional & non-functional requirements, especially Performance, Scale & Security.
• Ability to learn product & customer requirements in depth and aligning engineering strategy accordingly.
• Ability to work with multiple teams, in a fast-paced environment and build consensus towards outcomes.
• Good knowledge & experience of Product development lifecycle.
• Good understanding of applying AI to software development and product features
• Organized, metric driven and detail oriented.
• Excellent verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
• Proven experience of hiring & managing high growth, high performing teams.
• Experience in mentoring the team & running continual skill development program.
• Experience in Cyber security domain and specifically application security products such as SAST, DAST, SCA, API Security will be an advantage.

Experience Level

Executive Level