Director of Engineering

As Director of Engineering, you will lead the teams building the agents that do real GRC work for the world's most demanding enterprises. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you will run day-to-day engineering execution, grow and develop engineers and managers, and stay close enough to the code to make the hard architectural calls. Zania is building agentic AI for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC). Agents review evidence, answer security questionnaires, assess vendors, and map controls across frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIST. You will partner closely with the Head of Engineering, the founders, product, and GRC experts.

Responsibilities

Own delivery: Run engineering execution across multiple teams, with weekly ship cycles, clear ownership, and a culture where deploying daily is normal; Build and lead the team: Hire, onboard, and develop senior engineers and first-line managers as we scale; Ship production-grade agents: Guide the architecture of LLM orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, and agentic workflow systems; Raise quality and reliability: Establish practical standards for code review, testing, LLM evaluations, observability, on-call, and incident response; Enterprise readiness: Partner with security and GRC leads to meet the security, privacy, and deployment requirements of Fortune 500 customers, and join technical conversations with customers when needed; Connect engineering to the field: Work with product and GRC experts to turn customer feedback and agent failure patterns into prioritized engineering work

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years managing engineers and 2+ years leading managers or multiple teams; Hands-on experience shipping AI/ML, LLM, or agentic systems to production for enterprise customers; Demonstrated experience hiring and scaling engineering teams at a high-growth, product-led company; Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to represent engineering with customers and executives

Nice to have

Background in security, infrastructure, GRC, or enterprise SaaS; Experience as a founder or early engineering leader (employee #1–20); Experience meeting enterprise security requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP) for your own platform; A network of strong engineers in the Bay Area

Benefits

Competitive salary + significant equity; Flexible PTO; Medical, dental, and vision insurance; Meals and snacks in the office; Relocation and immigration support