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Hundreds of customers, spanning AI innovators to top 10 banks, trust Nightfall to detect and stop data exfiltration at scale. Nightfall enables organizations to innovate freely without the risks of losing intellectual property or exposing customer data. Our agentic platform helps security teams regain their time by putting data loss prevention on autopilot. With automatic remediation, security violations can be resolved automatically before they become incidents, and end-users can be automatically trained and coached in the moment to self-heal violations that they introduce.\nNightfall is backed by leading VC firms including Bain Capital Ventures (Enrique Salem - former CEO of Symantec), Venrock (early investors in Cloudflare), WestBridge Capital, Pear VC (early investors in Dropbox and Doordash), and a cadre of cybersecurity leaders including Frederic Kerrest (founder of Okta), Maynard Webb (former COO of eBay), Ryan Carlson (President of Chainguard), Kevin Mandia (founder of Mandiant), and many others.\nAbout the role:\nThis is not a purely organizational role. We are looking for a player-coach - someone who leads the team and writes production code. 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If you want to ship code that protects data at scale across every major OS - and build the team that does it - read on.\nWhat You Will Own\nHands-on Technical Contribution\nPersonally contribute to design, architecture, and implementation - especially on the Mac/Windows platform build-out and the most complex cross-platform challenges.\n\nWrite and review production-quality systems code in C/C++, C#, or Swift/Objective-C; actively participate in code reviews and set the quality bar by example.\n\nOwn architecture decisions on agent design, kernel-userspace interaction, update safety, MDM deployment, and performance/security trade-offs across all three platforms.\n\nLead design reviews - not just as a reviewer, but as an author and key decision maker.\n\nDive into customer impacting bugs, kernel panics, race conditions, or reliability issues alongside the team when it matters most.\n\nTeam Leadership & Growth\nLead, mentor, and grow a multi-platform team of 10+ endpoint engineers across Mac, Windows - with active hiring underway for Linux.\n\nOwn the full people management lifecycle: hiring bar-setting, onboarding, performance management, career development, and retention.\n\nBuild a high-trust, high-accountability culture where engineers are empowered to own problems end-to-end and move fast without sacrificing reliability.\n\nPartner with recruiting to close senior Linux engineering talent, using your technical credibility to attract engineers who want to work for someone who gets it.\n\nExecution & Delivery\nDrive quarterly planning and sprint execution across all three platform teams, maintaining alignment on shared milestones and customer commitments.\n\nRemove blockers relentlessly - technical, organizational, or cross-functional - to keep teams shipping at startup velocity.\n\nOwn end-to-end delivery of the Linux endpoint agent: from initial architecture through GA, coordinating across engineering, QA, security, and CS teams.\n\nEstablish and track engineering health metrics: feature velocity, incident rates, agent reliability SLOs, and customer escalation trends.\n\nCross-Functional Partnership\nServe as the primary engineering partner to the VP of Engineering, Product Management, and Security Research on endpoint strategy and roadmap.\n\nRepresent endpoint engineering in customer escalations, security reviews, and enterprise prospect conversations - with the technical depth to be credible in the room.\n\nCollaborate with QA to raise the bar on test coverage, MDM compatibility validation, and release confidence across Mac, Windows, and Linux.\n\nTranslate field feedback from Customer Success and Solutions Engineering into prioritized, well-scoped engineering outcomes.\n\nRequirements\n10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent in systems or endpoint engineering - kernel-level, agent development, or OS-native APIs.\n\n5+ years in an engineering management or tech lead role, with experience leading teams of 8 or more engineers - but you have never stopped coding.\n\nDeep, demonstrable expertise in at least one of the three target platforms:\n\nmacOS: Endpoint Security framework, system extensions, IOKit, or macOS VFS.\n\nWindows: WDF/WDM driver development, filter drivers, or user-mode security agents.\n\nLinux: eBPF (libbpf, BPF CO-RE), LSM hooks, fanotify/netlink, or kernel module development.\n\nComfortable reading and writing production systems code in C/C++; 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