Director of Engineering - MetaDefender Email Security @ OPSWAT — Vaga Remota

About OPSWAT

OPSWAT, a global leader in IT, OT, and ICS critical infrastructure cybersecurity, delivers an end-to-end platform that gives public and private sector organizations and enterprises the critical advantage needed to protect their complex networks, secure their devices, and ensure compliance. Over the last 20 years, our commitment to innovative technology has earned the trust of more than 1,700 organizations, governments, and institutions globally, solidifying our role in protecting the world’s critical infrastructure and securing our way of life.

The Product: MetaDefender Email Security

MetaDefender Email Security is OPSWAT’s email threat prevention portfolio, trusted by governments and critical infrastructure operators to stop file-borne and email-borne threats before they reach the inbox. It comprises two complementary products designed for different environments and customer profiles — MetaDefender Email Gateway Security, deployed on-premises in front of existing mail servers, and MetaDefender Cloud Email Security, which augments Microsoft 365.

About This Role

We are looking for a Director of Engineering who leads from the front. This is a hands-on, technically-centric leadership role — not a pure people-management position — with full accountability for the engineering of the MetaDefender Email Security: architecture, delivery, quality, and the teams that build it.

Responsibilities

Lead as an AI-first effort: make AI agents a first-class part of how the team works.
Stay hands-on: remain directly in the codebase — setting architecture patterns, writing and reviewing critical code.
Own end-to-end delivery of the roadmap: take full ownership of delivering the product roadmap set by Product Management.
Set technical direction: drive the architecture and technology choices that underpin a product serving high-assurance environments at scale.
Build and lead a high-performance team: recruit, develop, and retain top engineers.
Drive performance-based management: set clear, measurable expectations and run a rigorous, fair performance culture.
Hold a security-first quality bar: champion code review with a security lens.
Raise engineering velocity: continuously improve how the team works.
Codify AI-native practices for the portfolio: establish playbooks and review norms.
Partner cross-functionally: work with Product Management, Design, and security leaders.

What We Need From You

Full agentic development experience (required).
A product launched via a full AI-powered SDLC.
Proven engineering leadership: 8+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years leading engineering teams.
Performance-based leadership: a track record of building high-performing teams.
Deep technical excellence: strong, current software engineering fundamentals.
Scalable systems experience: a proven history building scalable, distributed solutions.
Quality and test discipline: a high bar for tested, maintainable code.
Distributed-team leadership: demonstrated ability to lead and align engineers across countries.
Talent magnet and clear communicator.
Security-conscious by default.

It Would Be Nice If You Had

Domain familiarity with email as a communication channel.
Cloud services familiarity: experience of integrating products with M365 and/or Google Workspace.
.NET / C# ecosystem experience.
Cloud-native and containers experience.
AI context-file authoring experience.
AI in CI/CD pipelines familiarity.
International team experience.
Async and high-throughput systems experience.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

Lead a product trusted by critical infrastructure customers.
Influence beyond this product: the AI-native patterns you establish will propagate across OPSWAT’s engineering portfolio.
Work from anywhere — a worldwide, remote-friendly role.
Stable, growing international company with an exceptional customer base.
A mandate to build AI-native engineering practices.
Attractive compensation with regular performance assessments.