Director of Data Engineering

Come join Deepwatch’s team of world-class cybersecurity professionals and the brightest minds in the industry. If you're ready to challenge yourself with work that matters, then this is the place for you. We're redefining cybersecurity as one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S. – and we have a blast doing it!

Who We Are

Deepwatch is the leader in managed security services, protecting organizations from ever-increasing cyber threats 24/7/365. Powered by Deepwatch’s cloud-based security operations platform, Deepwatch provides the industry’s fastest, most comprehensive detection and automated response to cyber threats together with tailored guidance from dedicated experts to mitigate risk and measurably improve security posture. Hundreds of organizations, from Fortune 100 to mid-sized enterprises, trust Deepwatch to protect their business.

Our core values drive everything we do at Deepwatch, including our approach to tackling tough cyber challenges. We seek out tenacious individuals who are passionate about solving complex problems and protecting our customers. At Deepwatch, every decision, process, and hire is made with a focus on improving our cybersecurity solutions and delivering an exceptional experience for our customers. By embracing our values, we create a culture of excellence that is dedicated to empowering our team members to explore their potential, expand their skill sets, and achieve their career aspirations, which is supported by our unique annual professional development benefit.

Deepwatch recognition includes:

1. 2023, 2022 and 2021 Great Place to Work Certified
2. 2023 and 2022 Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers
3. 2023 and 2022 Fortress Cybersecurity Award
4. 2023 $180M Series C investment from Springcoast Capital Partners, Splunk Ventures, and Vista Credit Partners of Vista Equity Partners
5. 2022 Cigna Healthy Workforce Silver Designation
6. 2022 Cybersecurity Excellence Award for MDR

The Director of Data Engineering is a seasoned engineering leader who has previously managed teams of data engineers, developed existing talent and hired new talent into the team. The ideal candidate prioritizes well, communicates clearly, and understands how to drive a high level of excellence across the team.

The Director of Data Engineering has a proven track record of efficient and high quality delivery, rigorous testing, deep monitoring, and experience with large scale data application deployments in cloud environments. The business operates at a very large data scale and on critical customer workloads, therefore a discipline around operational excellence is essential.

The data team includes engineers and architects that deliver solutions that support both internal and external customers. The Director of Data Engineering is responsible for building data applications in a fast-paced engineering environment that values high-quality software design and rapid iteration.

In this role, you’ll get to:

1. Ideate. Identify areas of improvement in our existing frameworks, tools, and processes and deploy processes to make them better. Keep up to date with technical skills to contribute meaningfully to architecture discussions.
2. Innovate. Help innovate and invent new value-added data solutions, driving them to fruition through technical project management skills to deliver product roadmap items.
3. Production. Enjoy building large scale distributed data solutions (multi-instance or multi-tenant) that enables all downstream mission critical workloads to function without interruption.
4. Interact. Work with Deepwatch’s internal stakeholders to define business and functional requirements and deliver robust, scalable, operable solutions.
5. Problem Solve. Run a tight, lean, and efficient operation, breaking down roadblocks, and measuring success along the way. Leverage metrics, monitoring and alarming to measure and improve the operational processes and performance of the team.
6. Lead. Enjoy being a people manager that builds, motivates and mentors data engineers and architects. You should have a proven track record in recruiting and retaining top talent, with strong day-to-day people and performance management tasks.

To be successful in this role, you’ll need to demonstrate:

1. 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering large-scale data engineering solutions
2. 5+ years of data engineering team management experience
3. Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications
4. Experience partnering with product or program management teams
5. Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment
6. Experience with multi-instance or multi-tenant architectures

The ideal candidate will demonstrate:

1. Passion for responsibly defining, designing, and managing development of data platforms
2. Ability to engage with other internal communities on issues of data security, safety, and privacy
3. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
4. Demonstrated ability to relay complex concepts effectively to internal executive stakeholders
5. Ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and multiple stakeholders distributed across product, engineering and science teams.
6. Expertise deploying data solutions on AWS
7. Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence

ITAR Compliance

This position will have access to customer data and as such is subject to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Upon application, candidates will be asked to confirm that they are a U.S. Person as defined by the following:

1. A citizen of the U.S.;
2. A lawful permanent resident of the United States;
3. A person admitted to the United States as a refugee; or
4. A person that has been granted asylum by the United States government.

The intent of this requirement is not to verify employment eligibility overall, but to ensure compliance with import/export regulations. If you do not meet these requirements, we encourage you to apply for other open roles at Deepwatch. This information will be verified upon offer of employment.

Statutory Pay Disclosure:

For applicants in NYC, CO, CA, RI, and WA, the salary range for this role is $200,000 to $250,000 + stock options + benefits. Actual compensation may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level.

What We Offer:

Deepwatch is excited to provide benefits designed to support team members and their families. Including:

1. Medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance
2. Flexible Time Off (FTO), 9 company holidays, sick leave and 8-Weeks Paid Parental Leave
3. Unique professional development benefits, starting at $3,000 annually
4. Wellness contests and monthly educational programs
5. 401(K) retirement program with employer match

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you. Please review our DEI Statement here.

Deepwatch welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities and accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please inform your recruiter or contact for further information.

All Deepwatch employees are expected to:

1. Be interested in and able to work remotely from a home office when not at a corporate office
2. Pass a pre-employment background and drug screen in accordance with applicable laws

Deepwatch is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.

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