Director of Engineering, SRE (AI Security / Startup)

Jobot; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 220,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobot is seeking a Director of Engineering, SRE for an AI security startup. You will own reliability and scalability of a mission-critical platform, guiding a senior technical team on cloud infrastructure and distributed systems in an on-site New York setting.

The role demands deep SRE expertise, strong architectural vision, and the ability to step in during complex incidents while remaining hands-on when needed.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the reliability, scalability, resiliency of the platform.
• Lead a highly technical SRE team and drive architectural decisions.
• Capable of writing production code when necessary.

Skills

SRE

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

Platform engineering

Observability

Automation

Production operations

Engineering leadership

Job description

Director of Engineering, SRE (AI Security / Startup)

$220000 - $260000 per year | New York, NY | On-site | Permanent

Incredible opportunity to join one of the fastest growing AI Security startups in the world // VC Backed Startup experience is required // Fully Remote

We are partnering with a rapidly growing, venture-backed technology company operating at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Cloud Infrastructure to hire a Director of Engineering focused on Site Reliability Engineering.

The company's technology protects mission-critical AI systems and is deployed across sophisticated enterprise and government environments. As adoption continues to accelerate, the organization is looking for an exceptional engineering leader to own and evolve the reliability, scalability, resiliency, and operational excellence of its platform.

This is not a traditional people-management-only Director position.

We are looking for someone who combines exceptional leadership ability with deep, current technical expertise across SRE, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, platform engineering, automation, observability, and production operations.

You will inherit a highly technical engineering team, and credibility matters.

The engineers reporting to this person need to trust that their leader understands the technology at their level, can challenge their thinking, can make difficult architectural decisions, and—when necessary—can sit beside them during a complex production incident and help solve the problem.

You don't need to write production code every day.

But you absolutely need to be capable of doing it.

Why join us?

This is an opportunity to join a rapidly scaling company tackling one of the most important emerging challenges in technology: protecting the AI systems enterprises and government organizations increasingly depend upon.

You will have significant ownership over the infrastructure and reliability strategy supporting a sophisticated cybersecurity platform while leading an experienced technical team.

For the right engineering leader, this represents a rare combination of:

AI + Cybersecurity + Cloud Infrastructure + Distributed Systems + Engineering Leadership + Mission-Critical Reliability.

Compensation: $230,000–$260