VP of Engineering

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Company Overview

A software security company focused on helping developers and security teams build and ship software faster by reducing security-related overhead. Its platform enables organizations to discover, audit, and manage open-source software while improving software supply chain security. The company is backed by significant venture funding and serves organizations across the technology industry.

Responsibilities

• Scale the engineering organization from approximately 40 to 80+ engineers while maintaining velocity, code quality, and organizational culture.
• Serve as both an operational and technical leader, keeping engineering teams coordinated and unblocked while contributing to architecture and technical strategy.
• Design lightweight planning cadences, sprint structures, decision-making processes, and organizational practices that support growth without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Establish clear processes for engineering decisions and documentation so teams can operate effectively as the organization grows.
• Build and strengthen technical leadership across the engineering organization through coordination rhythms, leadership development, and clear career growth paths.
• Identify and eliminate major operational bottlenecks affecting engineering productivity, including prioritization issues, cross-team dependencies, code review delays, unnecessary meetings, and context switching.
• Own delivery of major cross-team initiatives by defining success criteria, tracking progress, managing dependencies, and escalating risks early.
• Maintain hands-on technical involvement through code, architecture decisions, technical mentoring, and resolution of complex engineering challenges.
• Partner on technical strategy and help define the future direction of the company’s architecture.
• Establish lightweight architecture review processes that enable informed and coordinated technical decisions without unnecessarily slowing development.
• Develop scalable feedback and culture practices, including skip-level one-on-ones, regular retrospectives, and feedback mechanisms that encourage continuous learning.
• Promote engineering practices where code reviews support learning and architecture reviews improve decision-making.
• Work closely with executive and company leadership to shape how the engineering organization operates and scales.

Qualifications

• Experience scaling an engineering organization to approximately 100 people, with a clear understanding of the organizational challenges that emerge at different stages of growth.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing engineering operating systems, including planning processes, sprint cycles, dependency management, and risk identification.
• Ability to create organizational structure and clarity without introducing unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Deep hands-on technical expertise, including regular coding experience and the ability to engage in sophisticated discussions around architecture, distributed systems, and technical trade-offs.
• Strong experience making and evaluating major technical decisions, including the ability to challenge engineering teams constructively on design and architecture.
• Experience managing complex cross-functional engineering programs involving four or more teams.
• Demonstrated ability to identify dependencies early, resolve conflicts, and keep complex initiatives on track.
• Strong track record of delivering significant technical projects with an emphasis on speed, quality, and measurable impact.
• Ability to work effectively with founders and hands-on executive leadership, including the ability to provide thoughtful pushback and collaborate on difficult decisions.
• Strong people leadership skills with a focus on developing engineering leaders and enabling teams to perform at their best.
• Commitment to building a strong engineering culture alongside operational and technical excellence.
• Experience in security, infrastructure security, or software supply chain security is a plus.
• Familiarity with shipping security-focused features or working with security infrastructure is a plus.

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