Director of Engineering — MetaDefender Email Security

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Director of Engineering — MetaDefender Email Security based in Germany. This is a strategic and hands-on leadership opportunity for an experienced engineering professional passionate about building secure, high-performance software products. You will drive the technical vision, architecture, and execution of a sophisticated email security platform serving enterprise and critical infrastructure customers. Working closely with Product Management, you will translate product strategy into scalable engineering solutions while fostering an AI-first software development culture. The role combines executive leadership with deep technical involvement, allowing you to influence architecture, engineering excellence, and delivery practices across distributed teams. You'll champion innovation, security, and operational excellence while helping shape the future of AI-powered software engineering. This is an excellent opportunity to make a lasting impact within a global, remote-friendly engineering environment. Accountabilities Lead the end-to-end engineering strategy, architecture, delivery, and quality of a multi-deployment email security platform. Drive an AI-first software development lifecycle by integrating AI-assisted workflows into specification, coding, testing, code review, and deployment processes. Remain actively involved in technical design, architecture decisions, critical coding activities, and complex engineering challenges. Own the successful execution of the product roadmap, ensuring timely delivery, technical excellence, security, and scalability. Build, mentor, and lead high-performing distributed engineering teams while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Establish engineering standards, best practices, AI development frameworks, and reusable processes that can be adopted across multiple product teams. Partner closely with Product Management, Design, and Security stakeholders to balance technical decisions, business priorities, and delivery commitments. Continuously improve engineering efficiency through modern CI/CD practices, automation, incident management, and operational maturity. Promote a security-first engineering mindset by ensuring rigorous code reviews, secure development practices, and proactive risk mitigation. Requirements 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 3 years leading engineering teams and engineering managers. Demonstrated experience delivering production software through a fully AI-powered software development lifecycle, including AI-assisted specification, development, testing, code review, and deployment. Strong background designing and delivering scalable distributed systems, cloud-native applications, and modern software architectures. Deep understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, SOLID principles, and high-quality coding standards. Proven ability to lead remote, international engineering teams while driving performance, accountability, and continuous improvement. Experience evaluating AI-generated code with the same rigor as human-written code while maintaining high security and quality standards. Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, DevOps practices, and engineering process optimization. Excellent communication, leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate business goals into technical execution. Security-first mindset with experience building software for highly regulated, enterprise, or security-sensitive environments. Nice to have: experience with email security technologies, Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace integrations, .NET/C#, Kubernetes, Docker, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), AI context files, AI-enhanced CI/CD pipelines, and high-throughput distributed systems. Benefits Competitive compensation package with regular performance reviews. Flexible remote working environment with the opportunity to work from Poland. Opportunity to lead the engineering strategy for a highly impactful cybersecurity product. Significant influence in defining AI-native engineering practices adopted across multiple engineering teams. Work with international, distributed engineering teams in a collaborative and innovation-driven environment. Exposure to complex enterprise-scale technologies serving customers across critical infrastructure industries. Long-term career growth within a stable and expanding global technology organization. Autonomy to shape engineering culture, technical direction, and delivery processes. #J-18808-Ljbffr Jobgether