Director, Engineering

About AppOmni

AppOmni, a leader in SaaS Security, helps customers achieve secure productivity with their applications. Security teams and owners can quickly detect and mitigate threats using unmatched depth of protection, continuous monitoring, and comprehensive visibility. Trusted by over 25% of the Fortune 100, AppOmni specializes in securing diverse SaaS environments.

About the role

AppOmni is looking for a talented Director of Engineering to be a leader in our growing team.

AppOmni is the industry leader in SaaS Security Management. Our company as well as our engineering team were founded and are led by veterans of security engineering, product security, and detection and response teams from major SaaS companies. That mindset carries throughout the work we do and products we build - we create security technology by security practitioners, for security practitioners.

In this role as a Director of Engineering, you will lead a set of highly skilled Engineering teams focused on building scalable, reliable data ingest and security scanning capabilities. Your responsibilities will be to lead, develop, and grow an organization of talented engineers and managers, all of whom contribute to significant components of AppOmni’s SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) platform.

The Director of Engineering is expected to deliver on complex initiatives across multiple areas of the AppOmni product, bringing to bear their own technical expertise in software architecture, development, implementation, and devops best practices. This role has the opportunity to deliver a meaningful impact on the security of SaaS-stored data worldwide through innovative technology solutions and effective engineering leadership.

Your work will have a direct and meaningful impact on securing our customers and their data - which may include your own data! These are challenging engineering problems in an exciting part of the security industry that do not yet have defined solutions. Successful candidates will have a history of strong problem solving skills and the ability to think creatively combined with significant past engineering management experience.

Unique Opportunities for Impact

• Scale - we support 30% of the Fortune 100 and have our sights set on more. These are huge organizations for which scale is of the utmost importance, and we need to support that. The Posture organization needs to deliver robust features that work seamlessly while operating at a scale that few tools can support.
• Customer satisfaction - AppOmni delivers a complex product, supporting other complex products. We support 50+ SaaS applications and a developer platform, all of which have their own unique behavior, constraints, and interfaces. We seek a leader who has not only a mind for engineering excellence, but an eye for what constitutes a "delightful" experience for an enterprise security product. A successful leader will be able to collaborate with talented engineers, PMs, and security experts to deliver best-in-class capabilities.
• Predictable, High Quality, and Reliable delivery - the ideal leader for this role will be passionate about collaborating with engineering managers and technical leads from their organization in order to structure, mentor, and optimize engineering teams for rapid feature delivery around three key pillars: Predictability, Quality, and Reliability. Engineering leaders at AppOmni are expected to be technically competent in their areas of ownership and able to engage with their teams to help drive continuous improvement across these pillars in an intentional, data-driven way.
• Fully Remote, Global Team - this leader must be able to productively manage and collaborate with employees who are fully remote, and work with global teams.

What You’ll Do

• Take ownership and drive innovation to enable your engineering organization to deliver high-quality, high-performance code
• Establish and continually improve development and team processes that yield efficient results in day-to-day engineering operations
• Advance the organization’s monitoring and alerting capabilities and drive operationalization of alerting tools to improve reliability
• Provide mentorship to managers and individual contributors via 1:1s and intentional career planning
• Develop continuous improvement opportunities for Engineers and Managers within the organization
• Collaborate with internal teams to identify opportunities for integration, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing
• Be a technical leader within the broader company and raise the bar for performance and quality in a complicated space

What We’re Looking For

• Experience building and leading high-performing engineering teams working on large projects
• An empathetic leadership mindset of proactively setting goals, giving feedback, and cultivating teamwork, delivery, and performance from skilled engineers with a variety of working styles and backgrounds
• Familiarity with working in an agile environment focused on rapid delivery and iteration
• Experience working in a DevOps environment and familiarity with tools such as: Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, and Grafana. Experience using APM tooling and basic CI/CD tooling is also expected.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and experience using them in a remote-first environment
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Python, Django, and working with SaaS applications and backend SQL databases. Any prior experience with building enterprise security products is a plus but not a requirement
• 4+ years of Software Engineering experience as a hands-on engineer with successively greater responsibility and impact
• 5+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager leading successively larger teams and/or organizations

Culture

Our flexible, remote-first team is collaborative and supportive as we move quickly to research and develop new ideas, deliver new features to our customers, and iterate on ideas and innovations. We accomplish this by focusing on our five core values: Trust, Transparency, Quality, Customer Focus, and Delivery. Our team is determined to make a difference to positively impact our way of life by securing the technology that is changing the world.

AppOmni is proud to be Certified by Great Place to WorkⓇ, as we seek to build a culture where all employees feel appreciated and supported, especially with clear and honest leadership, employee recognition, and an environment that fosters innovation and collaboration.

We believe diversity fuels innovation and drives growth by bringing a wealth of different perspectives and skills. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where every employee feels valued, heard, and empowered to reach their full potential. Join us in building a workplace where we can all thrive.

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Compensation & Benefits

AppOmni is committed to supporting our employees' financial, professional, and personal well-being. To do this, we take a holistic view of compensation, one that values not just the immediate financial package but also the long-term growth of both our employees and our company. We're committed to pay equity and transparency and encourage all candidates to discuss their salary expectations with us early in the application process.

Our total rewards package includes the following:

• Base Salary: The annual base salary compensation range in the U.S. for this role is: $247,000 - $299,000. Final offer amounts are determined by factors such as the final candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience, as well as business considerations and peer compensation.
• Stock Options: Our vision is to not just grow as a company but to grow together. By offering stock options, we are inviting you to be an integral part of our journey forward.
• Benefits: The many benefits of employment with AppOmni include working remotely, new hire home office / computer equipment stipend, generous paid time off, paid company holidays, paid floating holidays, paid parental leave, paid sick time, and paid family leave for applicable states, health insurance - medical, dental, and vision with HSA option, LifeWorks Employee Assistance Program, company-provided life insurance, AD&D, STD/LTD and additional supplemental life insurance options, 401(k) and Roth retirement saving accounts, and a monthly wellness benefit reimbursement. All benefits are subject to eligibility requirements and plan details.

The application window is anticipated to close by October 15, 2024.

AppOmni is an equal-opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, disability, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. AppOmni is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at employeesuccess@appomni.com.