VP of Engineering

Role Overview

• Lead multiple engineers across one or more concurrent projects, ensuring predictable, high-quality delivery from design through deployment.
• Own execution across the full development lifecycle, balancing technical excellence, delivery speed, and operational stability.
• Partner with Product/Architecture/Infra-Operations to translate business and security requirements into clear technical plans, milestones, and outcomes.
• Ensure engineering best practices are consistently applied, including code quality, testing, documentation, and secure development standards.
• Serve as the primary people leader for your team(s), with full accountability for performance, engagement, and growth.
• Establish and maintain clear role expectations, performance standards, and success metrics across engineering projects.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and feedback cycles focused on both results and professional development.
• Identify skill gaps, succession risks, and growth opportunities, and proactively address them through coaching, training, or hiring.
• Support recruiting efforts by defining role requirements, participating in interviews, and ensuring strong hiring decisions aligned with DataStealth’s standards and culture.
• Drive effective onboarding and ramp-up processes to ensure new engineers become productive quickly and consistently.
• Allocate engineering resources across projects/teams based on company priorities, skills, and capacity, adjusting as business needs evolve.
• Identify delivery risks related to staffing, workload, or burnout, and proactively address them.
• Partner with leadership to forecast hiring needs and support scalable team growth.
• Build and reinforce a culture of accountability, ownership, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.
• Champion modern engineering and people-management best practices suitable for a fast-growing software startup.
• Promote collaboration and open communication across teams.
• Continuously assess and improve engineering processes, tooling, and team workflows.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred
• Proven experience (minimum 4 years) in a software engineering people leadership role, having led at least 2 small teams with 4-8 members on each
• Expertise in clean, efficient and structured programming for top-notch performance with a track record of successfully delivering complex software projects
• Strong technical background in software development, with proficiency in languages such as Java, Python, Node.js, etc.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, DevOps practices, and CI/CD pipelines
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
• Demonstrated leadership skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire a team towards achieving common goals
• Experience working in the cybersecurity or data security industry is a plus.

Tech Stack

• Cyber Security
• Java
• JavaScript
• Node.js
• Python

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work hours
• Paid time off
• Professional development opportunities