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Director of Engineering

Palo Alto, CA

About Us

Endor Labs is building the premium Application Security platform for the software development revolution. Modern software is complex and dependency-rich, making it increasingly difficult to pinpoint the risks that truly matter. Endor Labs solves this challenge by building a call graph of your entire software estate—enabling teams to clearly identify, prioritize, and fix critical risks faster. 

Trusted by companies that are one or one hundred years old, Endor Labs secures code whether it was written by humans or AI, and whether it's 40-year old C++ code or cutting edge Bazel Monorepos. Endor Labs was founded by serial entrepreneurs Varun Badhwar and Dimitri Stiliadis, and is backed by leading VC firms such as Dell Technology Capital, Lightspeed, and Sierra Ventures.

Endor Labs has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Agentic Development Security Tools, Q4 2026  Blog (Nov 2026)

Endor Labs + OpenAI Integration Blog (Nov 2026)

Take the next big leap in security innovation at Endor Labs!

How You'll Make an Impact

As Director of Engineering, you will play a critical role in shaping the foundation of our engineering organization. You’ll partner closely with product, security-research, and executive leadership to drive technical excellence, scale our teams, and deliver customer impact. This is a highly visible role where you’ll balance strategic leadership with tactical execution, ensuring we deliver high-quality products while building a healthy, collaborative, and high-performing engineering culture.

You’ll manage and mentor engineering managers, guide technical direction across infrastructure and platform areas, and bring strong execution discipline to help us scale effectively. If you thrive in fast-paced startup environments, love working on hard technical problems, and are passionate about building secure products that developers love, we’d love to talk.

  • Lead and grow engineering teams across UI, Platform, Infrastructure, and Services, with responsibility for both technical outcomes and team health.
  • Mentor and develop engineering managers and senior ICs, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.
  • Build organizational structures and processes that enable cohesion, velocity, and scale as we grow.
  • Partner with product, design, and security leaders to align engineering strategy with business priorities.
  • Drive execution on complex technical projects, ensuring timely delivery and high quality.
  • Maintain a data-driven approach to decision making, measuring and improving team performance.
  • Balance short-term tactical needs with long-term strategic investments in architecture, tooling, and scalability.
  • Champion DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native infrastructure to increase reliability and developer velocity.
  • Build and strengthen relationships with stakeholders across the company, ensuring clear communication and alignment.
  • Foster a culture of innovation and ownership while keeping customer value and security at the core of decision making.

What You Bring to the Table

  • Bachelors or Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in engineering management roles.
  • Prior experience scaling teams in a high-growth startup with deeply technical product; Series A–C experience strongly preferred.
  • Proven track record of building and scaling high-performing engineering teams in multi-geo, hybrid and distributed environments.
  • Deep understanding of microservices architecture, API design, and infrastructure automation.
  • Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and modern infrastructure tooling
  • Demonstrated ability to balance strategic planning with day-to-day execution.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align engineering with business needs.
  • Strong mentorship track record, including developing engineering managers and growing senior talent.
  • Experience delivering security products, developer tools, or working within the cybersecurity space is highly desirable.
  • Familiarity with open-source ecosystems and community dynamics is a plus.

What Makes Us... Us

  • Go to extraordinary lengths to distinguish ourselves through world-class work.
  • Prioritize quality over speed, and speed over scope.
  • Desire to work with deeply kind, mission-driven people.
  • Strive to make the complex simple.
  • Use first principles to debate ideas, test assumptions, and make decisions.
  • Seek the truth by putting data above opinions.
  • Assume good intent and give tactical feedback to help each other get better.
  • Hold no ego—when our customers win, we all win.

What Makes Us... Us

  • Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package including Health, Dental, Vision and Mental Health plans. 
  • 401(k) plan to support your longterm financial goals.
  • Flexible PTO to maintain a healthy work-life balance (we want you here for the long-haul!)
  • Opportunities for co-working and team meetups to foster collaboration.
  • A dog-friendly office environment for those who love to bring their fur babies along

Endor Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Even if you don't fit every requirement above, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives and experiences, so we encourage all talented individuals to apply—there's no one-size-fits-all here.

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