[Remote] Director of Engineering, AI

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Delinea is a pioneer in securing human and machine identities through intelligent, centralized authorization. As Director of Engineering for AI security, you will build and lead the engineering organization that discovers AI agents, gives them identity, and controls what they can do at runtime.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a multi-team engineering organization for AI security, hiring and developing engineering managers, tech leads, and senior engineers
• Serve as the single engineering owner for AI security, accountable opposite the product leader for what the organization ships and when
• Grow the team across the US and Mexico while protecting quality, security rigor, and a strong engineering culture
• Set engineering standards and ways of working, and represent the organization to senior leadership and customers
• Define and drive the engineering roadmap for Delinea's AI security platform, from discovering AI agents to controlling what they can do at runtime
• Lead the teams building agent discovery and posture, agent identity and authorization, the AI gateway, and integrations with platforms such as Microsoft Copilot and Salesforce Agentforce
• Own the key technical decisions, including the identity and authorization foundations the rest of the platform builds on
• Ensure the organization builds on Delinea's shared platform services rather than duplicating discovery, identity, or enforcement
• Partner with product, architecture, and field teams, and work directly with design and early customers to validate what you build
• Scale the technology from early customer deployments to broad production use, at the reliability, correctness, and auditability a security product demands

Skills

• Typically 12 or more years in software engineering, with several years leading engineering teams, including leading other leaders or senior engineers
• A track record of building and scaling engineering organizations and delivering complex backend or platform products to production
• Strong technical depth in one or more of identity, authorization, cloud security, or distributed systems, enough to own architecture-level decisions
• Experience owning a product or platform area end to end in close partnership with product management
• Experience hiring, developing, and retaining engineers and managers
• Experience securing AI, agents, or large language model systems
• Background in privileged access, identity security, or zero trust
• Experience taking a new product from early customers to general availability
• Experience handling and scaling data pipelines

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• A meaningful bonus program
• Excellent benefits, including healthcare insurance
• Pension/retirement matching
• Comprehensive life insurance
• An employee assistance program
• Time off plans
• Paid company holidays

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