Director of Engineering

DomainTools is seeking an experienced leader to direct several of our DevOps delivery teams. This position will manage engineers and other managers responsible for designing, building, deploying, operating and maintaining our production systems. 

Our teams use DevOps platforms that allow for continuous integration and deployment of our world class security applications to our hybrid On-prem and AWS environments. We use best in class tools to accelerate engineering productivity, reduce operational toil, increase consistency and improve the lives of coworkers. 

At DomainTools, we confront the challenges of collecting, ingesting, processing, searching, alerting and contextualizing internet-scale data for use in real-time threat intelligence, defense and investigation.

We seek someone passionate about supporting peer development organizations, with a Services oriented mentality. If you get excited about making the internet a safer place, then we are the right team for you! 

Job Responsibilities

• Orchestrate your organization. Manage through other managers. Lead a team of engineers directly, provide leadership and mentoring throughout the organization.
• Recruit, develop, and retain talent to ensure your teams have the skills and capabilities needed. Manage low performers.
• Collaborate across teams to understand requirements, propose improvements, guide direction, ensure best practices and gain alignment. Predict the needs of your teams and customers.
• Define, implement and continually improve processes. 
• Estimate project requirements, timelines, capacity and costs.
• On-call participation with your team of 24/7 operations engineers around the world.

Requirements

• 10+ years experience in technology management
• Director level experience
• Large team oversight (20+ people)
• Off-shore team management
• Direct performance management
• Proven ability to interact, present and influence at all levels of companies, from executives to engineers.
• 5+ years development experience building SaaS solutions and relevant tooling
• AWS & private cloud
• K8s (orchestration)
• Kafka (streaming)
• C/Python/GoLang/Rust (programming)
• Data systems (RDBMS, NoSQL, Datalakehouse)
• Experience creating & implementing visibility
• Project management & process creation
• Individual performance
• Team performance
• Project KPI's

Pluses

• Masters degree or higher in Computer Science/related field or equivalent experience
• Multi-disciplinary (DevOps, RelEng, QA, Documentation, NOC, etc)
• RedHat OpenShift
• Deep DNS knowledge
• Experience working with Internet security, threat intelligence products, Whois data, DNS data, SSL certificate data, web crawl data, and related technologies
• Strong opinions, loosely held
• Ownership of cost governance
• Experience with AI for programmer efficiency

Benefits

DomainTools is the global leader for Internet intelligence and the first place security practitioners go when they need to know. The world's most advanced security teams use our solutions to identify external risks, investigate threats, and proactively protect their organizations in a constantly evolving threat landscape. DomainTools constantly monitors the Internet and brings together the most comprehensive and trusted domain website and DNS data to provide immediate context and machine-learning driven risk analytics delivered in near real-time.

DomainTools offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees that includes fully paid medical, dental and vision insurance premiums, a 401k retirement plan with company matching, basic life insurance, flexible PTO and additional well-being benefits.

DomainTools embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion to its fullest as an equal opportunity employer. We build our teams so creativity and innovation can flourish. We believe inclusivity and equity fosters innovation and growth; and we harness this mindset to drive a culture that serves our employees and our customers. We encourage people of all backgrounds, ages, perspectives, and skill sets to apply; and do not discriminate based on age, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.

DomainTools is the global leader for internet intelligence and the first place security practitioners go when they need to know. The world's most advanced security teams use our solutions to identify external risks, investigate threats, and proactively protect their organizations in a constantly evolving threat landscape. DomainTools constantly monitors the Internet and brings together the most comprehensive and trusted domain, website and DNS data to provide immediate context and machine-learning driven risk analytics delivered in near real-time. Although we are a remote friendly organization and provide great benefits and outstanding perks.

• Work with big data and machine learning that matters. We're not just trying to sell more ads or widgets, we're helping organizations improve their security and protect against cyber attacks and domain hijacking.
• Whatever hardware and software you need to do your job. Multiple 30 inch monitors - no problem, fully loaded MacBook Pros - no problem. Access to more processing machines than you can shake a stick at - no problem"