Vice President of Engineering, Developer Experience, AI Enablement & SecOps

About the role

We're looking for a VP of Engineering to own the full Developer Experience, AI-enabled SDLC, and Security Operations function. The mission is to enable developers and AI agents to ship dramatically faster, while continuously raising the bar on quality, security, and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale the organization, managing a globally distributed team of Directors and Senior Directors.
• Set the multi-year strategy, own the roadmap, and build the operating model that scales with AI-driven velocity.
• Transform Developer Experience by building the internal developer platform that eliminates friction from idea to production.
• Reinvent CI/CD and test infrastructure, evolving pipelines from static pass/fail checks into intelligent delivery systems.
• Build AI-driven, risk-adaptive test selection to ensure high-confidence changes ship fast and high-risk changes get deep scrutiny.
• Develop systems for semantic analysis, security scanning, architecture compliance, and regression prediction at machine scale.
• Automate patch generation, validation, and forward/backward propagation across releases.
• Own Product Security Operations, embedding security directly into engineering and owning application security, supply-chain security, SAST/DAST/SCA, secrets management, vulnerability management, and automated remediation.
• Secure by default; continuously validate; automatically remediate.
• Drive engineering economics, establishing cost-per-developer and cost-per-deployment metrics to maximize engineering output per dollar while keeping developer experience pristine.
• Close the production-to-development learning loop by connecting production incidents, customer escalations, and performance signals back to the development system.

Requirements

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 15+ years of engineering leadership, including managing large, multi-layered global organizations.
• Proven track record leading Developer Experience, Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Engineering Productivity organizations at scale.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD, software delivery, and distributed systems architecture.
• Hands-on experience with DevSecOps — vulnerability management, security automation, compliance, and threat detection.
• Demonstrated experience applying AI/ML, LLMs, and agentic frameworks to engineering workflows across the SDLC.
• Strong understanding of engineering telemetry, productivity metrics, and engineering-outcome measurement.
• Track record of attracting, building, and retaining world-class engineering talent across globally distributed teams.

Qualifications

• Developer Obsessed: Understands that developer experience is a competitive advantage and that friction compounds across thousands of engineers.
• AI Native: Rethinks workflows assuming AI is a first-class participant, rather than adding an AI assistant to existing workflows.
• Techically Deep: Engages credibly with senior engineers on distributed systems, CI/CD, security, AI/ML, and software architecture.
• Security Mindset: Believes secure software is the natural output of a well-designed engineering system, not a downstream gate.
• Economically Disciplined: Treats infrastructure cost as an engineering metric, not a finance problem.
• Transformation Oriented: Has moved organizations from legacy processes to fundamentally new operating models and has the scars to prove it.

Skills

• Leadership and strategic planning.
• Technical expertise in CI/CD, software delivery, and distributed systems.
• Experience with DevSecOps and AI/ML in engineering workflows.
• Ability to lead and scale global engineering teams.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits framework including health and wellness benefits, vacation, paid holidays and refresh days, 401(k) retirement plan, life and disability insurance coverages, and more.

Pay

$347,400.00 - $386,000.00 annually.

Schedule

Flexible, with 2-3 days a week working out of core offices.