Hire, mentor, and grow engineers and team leaders for 3 teams
Coordinate cross-team dependencies with Server Team, Web Protection Team, QA, Infrastructure, and Support
Operational Excellence
Ensure signature release quality through automated testing pipelines
Monitor and improve detection rates, false positive rates, and cleanup success metrics
Respond to production incidents (certificate expiries, infrastructure failures, processing bottlenecks)
Manage vendor and partner technical integrations
Goals for the First 6 Months
Understand the full pipeline end-to-end: from file ingestion from clients' servers, pipelines processing in the cloud, verdict delivery, and on-server scanning/cleanup
Maintain momentum on active initiatives: e.g. Rust migration
Establish relationships with cross-functional stakeholders (Server Team, Web Protection Team, Product, Support, Infrastructure)
Identify and address the top 3 detection quality or infrastructure bottlenecks
Define the department key metrics and start tightening them to excellence
Requirements
Must have
Past experience leading security products / labs with / researches
8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in a management role leading multiple teams
Deep expertise in malware analysis and antivirus technologies: static/dynamic analysis, signature-based detection, heuristic engines, file classification
Nice to have
Strong background in distributed systems and data engineering: experience with workflow orchestration (Airflow, Luigi, or similar), message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and large-scale data processing
Experience with infrastructure at scale: managing compute clusters, storage systems (Ceph, S3), databases (ClickHouse, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis)
