Director of Engineering
Endorlabs · Palo Alto, CA
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**Director of Engineering — Endor Labs** **About Us** Endor Labs is building the premium Application Security platform for the software development revolution. Modern software is complex and dependency-rich, making it increasingly difficult to pinpoint the risks that truly matter. Endor Labs solves this by building a call graph of your entire software estate—enabling teams to clearly identify, prioritize, and fix critical risks faster. Trusted by companies of all sizes, Endor Labs secures code whether it was written by humans or AI, and whether it’s 40-year-old C++ or cutting-edge Bazel monorepos. **How You’ll Make an Impact** As Director of Engineering, you’ll shape the foundation of our engineering organization. You’ll partner closely with product, security-research, and executive leadership to drive technical excellence, scale our teams, and deliver customer impact. This is a highly visible role balancing strategic leadership with tactical execution—ensuring we deliver high-quality products while building a healthy, collaborative, high-performing engineering culture. You’ll manage and mentor engineering managers, guide technical direction across infrastructure and platform areas, and bring strong execution discipline to help us scale effectively. **Key Responsibilities** - Lead and grow engineering teams across UI, Platform, Infrastructure, and Services—owning both technical outcomes and team health. - Mentor and develop engineering managers and senior ICs; foster technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning. - Build organizational structures and processes that enable cohesion, velocity, and scale. - Partner with product, design, and security leaders to align engineering strategy with business priorities. - Drive execution on complex technical projects to ensure timely delivery and high quality. - Use a data-driven approach to decision-making; measure and improve team performance. - Balance short-term tactical needs with long-term investments in architecture, tooling, and scalability. - Champion DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native infrastructure to improve reliability and developer velocity. - Build and strengthen relationships with stakeholders across the company; ensure clear communication and alignment. - Foster a culture of innovation and ownership with customer value and security at the core. **What You Bring to the Table** - Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. - 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in engineering management roles. - Experience scaling teams in a high-growth startup with deeply technical product (Series A–C experience strongly preferred). - Proven track record building and scaling high-performing engineering teams in multi-geo, hybrid, and distributed environments. - Deep understanding of microservices architecture, API design, and infrastructure automation. - Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and modern infrastructure tooling. - Ability to balance strategic planning with day-to-day execution. - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. - Strong mentorship experience, including developing engineering managers and growing senior talent. - Security product / developer tools / cybersecurity experience is highly desirable. - Familiarity with open-source ecosystems and community dynamics is a plus. **What Makes Us… Us** - Go to extraordinary lengths through world-class work. - P
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