Join a stealth-mode AI security startup backed by Team8, building foundational technology to understand and secure how AI systems interact with the world — starting at the network and protocol layer.

This is a key technical leadership role at the heart of the company. You’ll lead a team of software engineers and security analysts, own the architecture and direction of complex systems, and help shape how our platform captures, interprets, and secures AI-driven interactions.

If you’re an experienced engineer who loves building sophisticated systems, mentoring others, and connecting deep technical work to real product impact — we’d love to meet you.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and grow a multidisciplinary team of engineers and analysts, cultivating technical excellence, curiosity, and collaboration.
• Define and drive the team’s roadmap and architecture, ensuring our systems are robust, scalable, and adaptable as the company evolves.
• Design and review high-performance components for traffic processing, protocol analysis, and data modeling.
• Work closely with Product and Operations to ensure technical initiatives deliver measurable impact for users and customers.
• Contribute to and guide core engineering decisions — from design principles to infrastructure choices.
• Mentor and empower team members, helping them grow in both engineering craftsmanship and ownership.

Help shape the engineering culture and technical vision across the company.

Who You Are

• A seasoned engineer and leader who enjoys balancing technical depth with people and product leadership.
• Experienced in distributed systems, backend development, or large-scale data processing, with strong system design instincts.
• Skilled in Go or similar backend languages, and comfortable designing and reviewing production-grade code.
• Curious about network protocols, traffic analysis, and how modern systems communicate.
• Strategic and adaptable — capable of moving between high-level vision and hands-on implementation.
• Collaborative by nature, comfortable leading discussions across engineering, product, and security teams.
• Excited by learning, experimentation, and guiding others through technical challenges.
• (You don’t need to check every box — if you’re excited by the mission and bring solid engineering and leadership experience, we’d love to hear from you.)

Bonus Points

• Experience with Wireshark, Zeek, mitmproxy, Burp, or similar traffic and protocol tools.
• Background in security, reverse engineering, or systems instrumentation.
• Familiarity with AI behaviors, LLMs, or model integrations.
• Prior experience building or leading early-stage engineering teams or core infrastructure systems from scratch.

Why This Role Matters

You’ll bridge engineering, security, and strategy — leading one of the company’s most critical domains.

Your team’s work will define how AI-driven systems are understood, analyzed, and secured. This is a chance to lead from the core, shaping architecture, product, and culture in a company defining the next frontier of AI security.