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Additionally, we offer flexible time off, sick days, all public holidays, and stock options.\nWhat’s cool about this job\nYou will work with a dedicated global team on technically difficult problems involving cybersecurity, distributed systems, data engineering, machine learning, and SaaS product development. You will help turn raw and rapidly changing threat information into dependable product behavior. That means writing production services, defining clear boundaries between components, handling failure deliberately, and making results understandable to operators and customers.\nWhat you’ll be doing\nYou will act as a player-coach manager responsible for Software Engineering and Security Research Engineering (Platform Engineering reports to a separate manager), including hiring, performance, technical direction, and delivery. You will lead the team turning threat research and shared data capabilities into production detections and customer features. You'll work directly with engineers and researchers on validation, design decisions, and production problems.\nAs the team grows, more time will shift toward coaching, hiring, delegation, and coordination. Direct technical involvement will continue through design reviews, difficult problems, and production issues, with greater implementation ownership delegated to engineers and technical leads.\nManage Software Engineering and Security Research Engineering, including hiring, onboarding, performance, career development, and delivery.\nOwn the process from research hypothesis through evaluation, implementation, release, and ongoing detection quality.\nSet the research agenda with Product and engineering leadership, prioritizing questions based on customer needs, coverage gaps, and available data capabilities.\nWork with researchers to validate evidence, assess coverage gaps, and determine production readiness.\nWork with engineers on services, APIs, detection integration, testing, and production troubleshooting.\nEstablish detection evaluation and regression testing; track false positives, missed threats, coverage, and production behavior.\nSet research objectives and evaluation criteria; establish implementation commitments as findings are validated. Plan delivery with Product using defined interfaces, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and capacity.\nCoordinate data access, interfaces, and reliability with Platform Engineering; enforce customer-data access boundaries.\nGuide product and detection design to reuse shared evidence, relationships, and history across customer workflows; evaluate how data quality and freshness affect results.\nDevelop technical leads and independent ownership; adapt team structure and working practices as the team grows.\nResolve customer escalations and production issues requiring engineering and research expertise; address recurring causes.\nSupport AI-assisted engineering and research with evaluation and review of results.\nYou’ll be a great fit if\nExperience leading development of SaaS products and/or products built on shared data platforms.\nExperience directly managing threat intelligence, threat research, detection engineering, or vulnerability research teams whose work contributed to a production security product.\nExperience leading software engineering delivery and managing technical contributors across engineering and research disciplines.\nEvidence of translating research findings into shipped capabilities, including validation, testing, deployment, and ongoing quality improvement.\nTechnical depth to evaluate approaches, challenge assumptions, and resolve problems across software engineering and threat research, including architecture, detection methods, and data quality.\nExperience owning hiring, performance management, and career development for a multidisciplinary team.\nAbility to manage research uncertainty while maintaining clear delivery expectations and balancing exploration with customer commitments.\nAbility to document decisions and coordinate delivery across engineering and research in a remote team.\nWillingness to learn and apply AI-augmented engineering and research practices.\nYou do not need every item below, but relevant experience may help you have an immediate impact:\nExperience with external threat intelligence, phishing, malicious domains, impersonation, or adversarial infrastructure analysis.\nExperience developing technical leads and expanding delegated ownership as a team grows.\nA software development background, particularly with Python or Go.\nExperience with cloud services, event-driven systems, graph-based analysis, or evaluating ML-assisted detections.\nExperience using AI development or research tools with measurable quality controls.\nOur environment\nOur Azure-based environment includes Go and Python services, Event Hubs and Kafka-compatible messaging, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Data Explorer, PostgreSQL, Neo4j, Redis, Databricks for appropriate analytics and machine-learning workloads, Kubernetes, and Azure-managed compute services.\nExperience with every component is not required. We care more about whether you understand the engineering principles underneath these technologies, can become productive in an unfamiliar environment, and can choose the appropriate combination of managed services and custom software.\nAt BforeAI, we're dedicated to building a diverse workplace based on merit, work ethics, and character, and we believe everyone deserves a fair shot at success! If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification, we hope you’ll still consider applying!\nWe use an Employee of Record service to facilitate seamless global hiring processes and offer benefits tailored to the country where you will be working! For countries not supported by our EOR partner, talk to us about being a contractor. In all cases, this position is not eligible for visa sponsorship so you will need to be authorized to work in the country you’re based in. 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