Vice President of Engineering

Summary

Join Cobalt as their Vice President of Engineering and lead a global team of engineers in building a cutting-edge AI-driven offensive security platform. Reporting to the CTO, you will collaborate with product management and senior leadership. Responsibilities include managing and mentoring the engineering team, improving existing offerings, building new products, and defining the technical vision. The ideal candidate possesses extensive software development experience, particularly in SaaS cybersecurity and AI-enabled products, and has a proven track record of leading and scaling engineering teams. Cobalt offers competitive compensation, equity, and benefits, including stipends for wellness, work-from-home equipment, and learning and development, as well as flexible paid time off and parental leave. The position requires East Coast Time Zone location.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in software development, with at least 5 years in building SaaS cybersecurity products
• Strong multi-cloud engineering experience
• Experience with Secure SDL best practices and building DevOps/DevSecOps teams
• Led distributed international engineering teams
• Recent expertise building AI enabled products and leading data science teams
• Strong internal and external communication skills; experience working with a variety of business functions
• High emotional intelligence, adaptable, and comfortable with change
• Demonstrated ability to manage and scale engineering teams effectively, with a focus on technical excellence
• Tech Proficiency: Strong skills in our architecture: Ruby on Rails + JavaScript (React)
• Proven ability to recruit, mentor, and retain great people
• Proven ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility
• Candidate is located in East Coast Time Zone

Responsibilities

• Lead, hire, manage, mentor, and coach a team of global engineers as we build the leading scalable Offensive Security Platform
• Own the ongoing improvements of our existing offerings and the build out of new innovative products as we grow our portfolio
• Collaborate with the senior leadership team on cross functional initiatives
• Own the technical vision and architecture of our platform, ensuring that we are building for scale, stability, and resiliency
• Foster a culture of innovation and experimentation
• Create and implement standards around quality, efficiency and security
• Drive the adoption of best practices in engineering design, architecture, and development, ensuring all solutions are scalable, resilient, and high-performing
• Develop and own the strategy to continuously improve engineering quality and efficiency leveraging AI technologies, coding best practices, and agile methodologies

Preferred Qualifications

Additional familiarity with other aspects of our tech stack is a plus: Node.js, cloud environments (GCP, Kubernetes)

Benefits

• Grow in a passionate, rapidly expanding industry operating at the forefront of the Offensive Security industry
• Work directly with experienced senior leaders with ongoing mentorship opportunities
• Earn competitive compensation and an attractive equity plan
• Leverage stipends for: Wellness
• Leverage stipends for: Work-from-home equipment & wifi
• Leverage stipends for: Learning & development
• Make the most of our flexible, generous paid time off and paid parental leave