[Hiring] Director of Engineering @OPSWAT

Role Description

We are looking for a Director of Engineering who leads from the front. This is a hands-on, technically-centric leadership role — not a pure people-management position — with full accountability for the engineering of the MetaDefender Email Security: architecture, delivery, quality, and the teams that build it. You will lead engineering across multiple deployment form factors — from air-gapped high security environments to native-cloud deployments — operating with the rigor of a principal engineer and the clarity of an executive.

You are an AI-native engineering leader. You have personally orchestrated fleets of AI agents to architect, build, test, and ship production systems, and you have launched and released real products through a full AI-powered software development lifecycle (SDLC) — from specification and code generation to automated testing, review, and deployment.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead as an AI-first effort: make 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.
• Stay hands-on: 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: take full ownership of delivering the product roadmap set by Product Management.
• Set technical direction (the “how”): drive the architecture and technology choices that underpin a product serving high-assurance environments at scale.
• 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.
• Hold a security-first quality bar: champion code review with a security lens for both human-written and AI-generated code.
• Raise engineering velocity: continuously improve how the team works — CI/CD pipelines, AI-assisted development workflows, incident response, and operational maturity.
• Codify AI-native practices for the portfolio: establish playbooks, AI context files, coding harnesses, test frameworks, and review norms.
• Partner cross-functionally: work shoulder-to-shoulder with the VP, Products, plus Product Management, Design, and security leaders.

Qualifications

• Full agentic development experience (required): You have personally run a full agentic, AI-powered SDLC end-to-end.
• A product launched via a full AI-powered SDLC: demonstrable experience taking a product from spec to release.
• Proven engineering leadership: 8+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years leading engineering teams.
• Performance-based leadership: a track record of building high-performing teams through rigorous, fair performance management.
• Deep technical excellence: strong, current software engineering fundamentals.
• Scalable systems experience: a proven history building scalable, distributed solutions.
• Quality and test discipline: a high bar for tested, maintainable code.
• Distributed-team leadership: demonstrated ability to lead and align engineers across countries and time zones.
• Talent magnet and clear communicator: you identify strong engineers and communicate technical decisions effectively.
• Security-conscious by default: you hold the team to a security-first bar on design, code review, and incident response.

It Would Be Nice If You Had

• Domain familiarity: understanding of email as a communication channel and the underlying technology and protocols.
• Cloud services familiarity: experience of integrating products with M365 and/or Google Workspace.
• .NET / C# ecosystem: hands-on or managerial experience with .NET Core / C#.
• Cloud-native and containers: experience leading the design or operation of cloud-native SaaS platforms.
• AI context-file authoring: experience writing AI context files that encode architecture decisions.
• AI in CI/CD pipelines: familiarity running AI agents inside pipelines.
• International team experience: a track record of building and maintaining engineering culture across multiple countries.
• Async and high-throughput systems: experience validating concurrency and thread-safety in high-throughput services.

Benefits

• Lead a product trusted by critical infrastructure customers across various deployments.
• Influence beyond this product: the AI-native patterns you establish will propagate across OPSWAT’s engineering portfolio.
• Work from anywhere — a worldwide, remote-friendly role.
• Stable, growing international company with an exceptional customer base across 50+ countries.
• A mandate to build AI-native engineering practices — and the latitude to do it your way.
• Attractive compensation with regular performance assessments and flexibility for the right candidate.