By joining our management team as the R&D director, you will take full responsibility of the email and collaboration product family R&D, manage a growing global team of over 50 professionals, and be at the top of technology for cloud SaaS high scale/high velocity AI/ML based security solutions, serving tens of thousands of global enterprise customers.
If you want to make a real global impact, making the world a safer place join us !
Key Responsibilities
Product Development:
Oversee the design, development, maintenance and deployment of cutting-edge cloud based email security products and features, serving tens of thousands of global enterprise customers.
Ensure products meet market needs and regulatory requirements while maintaining the highest security and coding standards.
Ensure products are developed in the most cost effective manner, deployed over multiple regions utilizing cutting edge cloud infrastructure and technologies.
Ensure products are robust, built to scale and support dynamic architecture changes for fast growing changing environments.
Ensure product is fully monitored at the highest level 24/7 by actively implementing a reliable monitoring system across multiple domains and regions.
Team Management:
Lead, mentor, and develop a growing high-performing R&D team of over 50 high skill professionals, across the globe. including group and team leaders, software engineers, data scientists, and cybersecurity experts.
Foster collaboration and cross-functional integration between R&D, product management, customer success, and other departments.
Manage our R&D team building. Recruit and support extending our R&D ever growing team to catch up with product growth.
Monitor and report on R&D performance metrics and project progress to the executive team.
Research & Innovation:
Drive research initiatives to explore new technologies, threats, and opportunities in cloud, AI/ML and email security.
Maintain a strong understanding of industry trends, emerging threats, and competitive landscape.
Drive innovation through threat modeling, prototyping, and validating emerging technologies.
Quality Assurance:
Ensure rigorous testing and validation processes to guarantee the reliability, performance, and security of products.
Implement best practices for software development and quality assurance utilizing advanced automation technologies.
Implement full system monitroing to assure production top availability and performance.
Requirements: Skills:
Deep understanding of cloud bases SaaS architecture and implementation, with specific vast experience with AWS infrastructure and various AWS managed services.
Experience with development of multi-tenant lareg scale complex systems, utilizing microservices , ontainers and serverless computing, implemented with Python, Go, Angular, React and underlying technologies.
Experience with development of AI/ML based solutions.
Experience with secure software development practices, adhering to global regulation SOC, PCI etc.
Deep understanding of security technologies (Email Security Advantage), threat detection, and prevention mechanisms.
Strong leadership and team management skills with the ability to inspire and drive a diverse global team.
Excellent strategic thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
Experience:
Minimum of 10 years of experience in R&D, with at least 5 years Experience with driving large R&D groups, managing multiple global teams using agile development methods (Security and Email security industry Advantage).
Prior experience with development and management of high scale, innovative cloud based SaaS. used by thousands of global enterprise customers.
Education:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
This position is open to all candidates.