Director Engineering, Security Bengaluru, Karnataka

Description We are looking for a hands-on Director Engineering, Security to build and lead the engineering organization responsible for our next generation of Network and AI security products. You will be expected to operate at both the strategic and technical levels - defining architecture and engineering roadmap while remaining close enough to the code and infrastructure to drive critical technical decisions and managing/mentoring the team. You will lead the development of security products spanning DLP, IDPS/IPS, Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware, Threat Detection, Traffic Inspection, Policy Enforcement, and AI security. You will also help define how our platform protects against emerging threats related to AI Traffic. The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals, deep networking and security expertise, experience building, shipping and supporting products/services, and a proven ability to build high-performing engineering teams in a fast-paced environment. What You Will Own Own product delivery through the complete lifecycle - requirements, architecture, development, testing, release, deployment, monitoring, customer adoption, and production support for enterprise-grade network security solutions. Build, lead, and scale a high-performing software and security engineering organization. Drive development of security engines and capabilities including, but not limited: Data Loss Prevention (DLP) IDS/IPS Anti-Virus / Anti-Malware Threat intelligence Behavioral and anomaly detection AI Security Work closely with PM and Field teams to understand customer pain points and rapidly translate them into product capabilities. Lead the engineering strategy for securing modern AI environments, including: LLM and generative AI traffic inspection and security. Security for AI APIs, AI applications and agents Detection and prevention of sensitive data being sent to AI services. DLP policies for prompts, responses, files, and contextual data. Detection of malicious or suspicious prompts and AI-related attacks. Protection against prompt injection, data leakage, malicious content, and unauthorized AI usage. Understanding emerging security threats, risks, and attack techniques and translating them into practical product capabilities. Own and continuously improve a modern, high-velocity software development process and integrate AI Tools into the CI/CD pipeline Establish secure coding standards and security-focused code reviews. Partner with security research team to translate emerging threats into engineering requirements. Required Experience 15+ years of software engineering and/or security engineering experience, with significant technical leadership experience. Demonstrated experience leading and scaling software engineering teams. Strong hands-on software development background in C/C++/Golang/Rust. Experience building cybersecurity products or network security platforms and delivering…