alkira
Director / Senior Director of Engineering, Zero Trust Network Access
San Jose, California · Director
Sponsorship not specified$167k-$279kDetected 2 days ago
GoC++CiOSDistributed SystemsOAuthCybersecuritySystems EngineeringTCP/IPDNSVPNSD-WANZero TrustLeadershipCommunication
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Lottery odds (Level IV)94
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About the role
- Alkira, a Lumen company, is a fast-growing cloud networking company that is transforming the way enterprise networks are deployed and managed.
- This is a hands-on technical leadership role.
Responsibilities
- Design for scale from the start: customer growth, concurrent users, global distribution, and high availability.
- Hire, develop, and lead engineers and managers.
- Build for scale: tenant growth, concurrent users, global distribution, and high availability.
- Apply zero-trust and secure-by-design principles throughout, and lead threat modeling, security reviews, and vulnerability response for the product.
- Lead development of the cross-platform desktop client, and extend it to iOS and Android.
- Lead the control and management planes: authentication with enterprise identity providers, device posture, session lifecycle, and provisioning across the platform.
- Build in debuggability and self-service so customer admins and support teams can diagnose and resolve issues without escalating to engineering.
- Partner with the networking and datapath teams on how access policy is enforced in the network.
- Hire, develop, and lead engineers and managers across the US and India, including bringing work delivered by external partners in-house.
- Design for scale from the start:
Requirements
- Senior Director candidates bring 15+ years and experience leading multiple teams or a full product line.
- Hands-on systems engineering background in C/C++, Go, or similar languages, and experience with distributed systems at scale.
- Business acumen: experience weighing engineering decisions against revenue, cost, and margin, and managing an engineering budget.
- Comfort with hard technical problems, and the judgment to change course on foundational technology when it is the right call.
- experience weighing engineering decisions against revenue, cost, and margin, and managing an engineering budget.
Skills
- The level will be based on experience and depth of expertise.
Compensation
- This information reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data.
- Individual pay is based on skills, experience and other relevant factors.
- Location Based Pay Ranges: $167,273 - $278,789
- We do not tolerate unlawful discrimination in any employment decisions, including recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotion, benefits, discipline, termination, job assignments or training.
Benefits
- We do not tolerate unlawful discrimination in any employment decisions, including recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotion, benefits, discipline, termination, job assignments or training.
Company info
- As we continue to reinvent networking for the multi-cloud and AI era, we are expanding our Engineering team.
- Today, as part of Lumen, we are bringing that cloud-native operating model to a global network foundation trusted by the world's largest enterprises.
- Our platform helps customers move faster without managing hardware, stitching together providers, or operating fragmented cloud networks.
- Own the business outcomes of ZTNA engineering: partner with Product Management and Sales on capabilities that win customers and grow revenue, and manage engineering budget, infrastructure cost, and build-versus-buy decisions to protect margins.
- partner with Product Management and Sales on capabilities that win customers and grow revenue, and manage engineering budget, infrastructure cost, and build-versus-buy decisions to protect margins.
Visa & Work Authorization
- We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of race, color, ancestry, citizenship, national origin, religion, veteran status, disability, genetic characteristic or information,
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