Director of Engineering

Intuition Machines, Inc.; Bristol (VA); Remote; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A cutting-edge tech company is looking for an Engineering Director to lead engineering efforts in delivering high-quality enterprise security products. This remote position requires strong leadership and technical skills, emphasizing high availability and security in products. Ideal candidates will have significant experience managing teams, strong interpersonal skills, and a solid understanding of DevOps practices. Join us in transforming cybersecurity and user privacy on a global scale.

Benefits

Fully remote position

Flexible working hours

Modern development workflows

High impact projects

Flat organization

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience leading engineering teams of 20-60 people.
• Strong understanding of high availability and high-security systems.
• Experience with test-driven design in large scale systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead recruitment and management of technical teams.
• Act as a liaison between product, engineering, customers, and sales.
• Define and govern automation and instrumentation.

Skills

Leadership of engineering teams

High availability development processes

Strong knowledge of Python

Knowledge of NodeJS

Familiarity with DevOps practices

Strong interpersonal skills

Tools

Kubernetes

C/C++

Go

Rust

Job description

Intuition Machines uses AI/ML to build enterprise security products. We apply our research to systems that serve hundreds of millions of people, with a team distributed around the world. You are probably familiar with our best-known product, the hCaptcha security suite. Our approach is simple: low overhead, small teams, and rapid iteration.

As Engineering Director, you will organize engineering efforts. This involves ensuring timely delivery of customer needs while upholding high code quality, security, and service availability standards. Additionally, you’ll serve as a domain expert to review and guide architecture and implementation for our initiatives.

What will you do:

• Lead the recruitment, motivation, and management of highly technical teams focused on delivering online security and machine learning products at scale.
• Act as a liaison between product, engineering, customers, and sales to articulate and translate both complex business requirements and technology solutions into useful products.
• Maintain a high level of assurance and software quality standards while maintaining development velocity; availability is core to nearly every requirement.
• Define, drive, and govern automation and instrumentation to ensure we maintain high observability and automate break-fix as much as possible.
• In partnership with sales and product teams, model go-to-market strategies for new offerings, oversee architecture, boost client acquisition capabilities, and improve delivery.
• Implement effective hiring and onboarding strategies.

What we are looking for:

• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience leading engineering teams of 20-60 people.
• Familiarity with high availability and high-security development processes, supported by strong knowledge of Python, NodeJS, and, ideally, C/C++, Go, or Rust.
• Experience and demonstrated success with DevOps/systems integration, lightweight development practices, meeting strong SLAs, test-driven design in large scale internet-facing systems.
• Familiarity with distributed systems design on orchestration platforms like Kubernetes: queue-first architectures, sharding, etc.
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated architecture and business/product need mapping expertise: gathering requirements, problem-solving, and reasoning about the best way forward given needs, timeline, and available resources.

What do we offer:

• Fully remote position with flexible working hours.
• An inspiring team of colleagues spread all over the world.
• Pleasant, modern development and deployment workflows: ship early, ship often.
• High impact: lots of users, happy customers, high growth, and cutting edge R&D.
• Flat organization, direct interaction with customer teams.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all members of our team.

Join us as we transform cyber security, user privacy, and machine learning online!