Vice President of Engineering

Join our team as the Vice President of Engineering, where you will lead our engineering organization, oversee architecture and delivery, and manage a distributed team across the Bay Area and Bangalore. You will collaborate with senior leaders to define and execute the company's technology strategy, implement engineering processes and standards, and foster a strong engineering culture. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone with a strong technical background and experience in a fast-paced startup environment.

• Lead and scale a distributed engineering organization, ensuring effective collaboration and trust between teams in different locations.
• Develop and implement engineering processes and standards to ensure consistency and quality across projects, while staying current with emerging trends and technologies.
• Collaborate with the CEO and other senior leaders to define and execute the company's technology strategy, ensuring alignment with product priorities.

• This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who has grown up through engineering, not just managed it: we're looking for a builder who can still get into the weeds on hard technical problems while running the org
• Startup experience strongly preferred; comfortable operating in a lean, fast-moving Series B environment
• Strong technical skills in software development, architecture, and design
• At least 8 years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5 years in a leadership role
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience joining a B2B SaaS company at an early stage (e.g., a founding engineer or one of the first engineering hires) and growing with it through significant scale — ideally 5+ years at one company, moving from IC through senior leadership
• Background in security, infrastructure, or data-intensive systems; direct security engineering experience (data protection, authentication, auditing, threat detection) is a strong plus
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and senior leaders
• A track record of growing from a hands-on technical role into engineering leadership — we're looking for someone who built the org, not just inherited one
• Based in Bay Area, with a hybrid work rhythm
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality software solutions on time and within budget
• Experience managing and mentoring large engineering teams, including demonstrated experience building or closely partnering with an engineering team based in India — someone who knows how to make a Bay Area / Bangalore org function as one team, not two
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; Master's degree or Ph.D. preferred
• Experience at a cybersecurity or data security SaaS company
• Track record shipping AI/ML-powered features in production
• Experience with data infrastructure or large-scale data processing systems