Harmonic Security, Inc

Director, Engineering

New York, NY - Remote · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 7 days ago

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About the role

Over time, you'll grow the US side of three capabilities we already run in the UK: customer engineering, platform (DevOps and infrastructure monitoring), and product roadmap delivery.
This is mostly a leadership role, not a coding role - but not on day one.
While the team is small, you'll be hands-on: interviewing deeply technical candidates credibly, making early architecture and tooling calls, and probably writing some code yourself before you have a team large enough to hand it to.

Hire and build Harmonic's first US engineering team from a standing start, sequencing growth across customer engineering, platform, and product roadmap capability based on business need
Design how the US and UK engineering teams actually work together day to day: overlap hours, handoffs, communication norms, and shared rituals, so the US site is one team with the UK rather than a second one
Partner with People/Recruiting on the practical realities of hiring in the US - compensation benchmarking, employment structures, and market norms that differ from the UK
Build the operational rhythm (planning, delivery, on-call, incident response) that lets the US team ship independently while staying aligned with existing engineering practices
A genuine track record of building a US (or other second-site) engineering presence for a company headquartered elsewhere - not just managing a team that already existed when you joined
This isn't just a job - it's a chance to help define a category, and to build the US chapter of that story from its first page.
We're building at the intersection of AI and security, carving out an emerging market where the rules haven't been written yet, and the people who join now will write them.
We orient ourselves quickly and deliver results with minimal guidance.
We support one another to create cohesion and unity.
We collaborate openly, share feedback honestly, and help everyone produce their best work

Represent the US engineering function to our VP of Engineering and the rest of engineering leadership, and make sure US context and constraints are visible in company-wide planning
10+ years of experience managing and leading engineering teams
Experience hiring engineers from a standing start, not inheriting an existing team and its processes
Comfort being hands-on early - technically credible enough to make calls and interview deeply technical candidates - with a clear track record of transitioning into fuller leadership as a team scales
Broad enough technical range to hire well and set direction across customer-facing engineering, platform/infrastructure, and product engineering, even without deep specialism in all three
A track record of operating well inside a broader engineering organization led by someone else, rather than needing full autonomy to feel ownership

Over time, you'll grow the US side of three capabilities we already run in the UK:
customer engineering, platform (DevOps and infrastructure monitoring), and product roadmap delivery.

Competitive pay and meaningful equity - A real stake in Harmonic's success, not a token gesture
A small, high-trust team that values transparency, creativity, and continuous learning - no politics, no bureaucracy
Are comfortable being judged early on hiring quality and team health rather than feature throughput
Comprehensive benefits - 401K, pension plan, generous PTO, and flexible hybrid work

Harmonic's engineering team has been built in the
UK from day one - and it's worked well enough that we're now taking the next step:
standing up our first US engineering presence, based on the East Coast.
This isn't a satellite office or an outsourcing play.
It's a real second home for engineering, and we want someone who's genuinely built one of these before to lead it.
You'll report into our VP of Engineering, alongside our UK engineering leadership, as part of one engineering organization rather than two.
The goal isn't a US team that happens to share a Slack with the UK - it's one function that works as a single team across time zones, with the US site eventually covering its own ground in customer engineering, platform, and product delivery.
interviewing deeply technical candidates credibly, making early architecture and tooling calls, and probably writing some code yourself before you have a team large enough to hand it to.
As the team grows, your time shifts toward hiring, coaching, and being the connective tissue between two offices five time zones apart.
We're looking for a Director, Engineering to build our US engineering function from the ground up.
Real ownership - you'll shape a new part of the company, its culture, and its direction from day one

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