Director of Engineering

The Role

Yubico is looking for an experienced Director of Engineering to lead and scale our distributed Production & Fulfillment Systems software development team. This team works closely with our hardware, solutions engineering, and production teams to build enterprise-grade, secured, reliable, integrated software to produce YubiKey devices at scale.

In this leadership role, you will be responsible for defining the engineering vision and championing the development of next-generation production systems to drive higher levels of automation efficiency and scale. You will collaborate effectively with cross functional Engineering, Product Management, Supply Chain/Production, and Operations teams to execute complex, high-impact solutions across a global engineering workforce.

Tasks & Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership & Technical Oversight: Define and execute the engineering vision for production systems, ensuring alignment with overarching business goals. Provide architectural guidance and oversee the delivery of scalable and maintainable existing and new enterprise-class software solutions.
• Team Management & Mentorship: Lead, scale, and mentor geographically distributed teams of software development engineers and managers at all levels. Nurture an inclusive environment and foster a high-performance culture across multiple locations.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate deeply and broadly with cross-functional teams spanning production hardware, product management, supply chain, and business leadership to align engineering efforts with customer needs and company objectives.
• Process Optimization & Engineering Excellence: Continuously improve our ability to deliver quality solutions by driving the adoption of best practices for Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, and automation. Demonstrate a proven ability to continue raising the quality bar in Engineering Excellence.
• Budget & Resource Management: Optimize team resources, prepare realistic estimates, and manage broad development portfolios consistently on schedule and on budget, balancing cost-efficiency with talent retention and innovation.
• Technology Evaluation: Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies to evaluate and drive innovation in industrial and manufacturing automation.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 12+ years of progressively broadening engineering experience, with a strong track record of success in the software development and delivery of complex, enterprise-class software.
• 5+ years in significant leadership roles, including proven experience managing distributed engineering teams and large-scale application development for Windows desktop and Google Cloud deployments.
• Strong business and technical acumen with a strong understanding of development processes and project planning and execution management.
• Demonstrates a "high organizational IQ", successfully navigating and managing highly technical, geographically distributed teams.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills to convey complex technical information effectively to a wide variety of stakeholders and audiences at all levels.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with firmware development, embedded systems, Windows/Linux operating systems, and the unique challenges developers face on these platforms.
• Experience working with cryptographic systems such as Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) or critical management systems such as Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).
• Good understanding of industrial and manufacturing automation designs and implementations.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills with hands-on approach to software development and guiding the team to solving complex technical challenges.