Engineering Manager, Firewall Defense
Core
Lead a team of backend engineers and security practitioners to validate, tune, and improve Web Application Firewall (WAF) effectiveness for the NodeZero autonomous pentesting platform.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager (Cybersecurity/Platform)
Builds
WAF validation workflows and defensive capabilities for the NodeZero platform
Domain
Cybersecurity, Cloud Security, SaaS
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Technical leadership of backend/platform teams, WAF or application security knowledge, stakeholder management, scope management, security/reliability best practices, partnership with staff-level technical leads
Preferred skills
Hands-on experience with WAF platforms (AWS WAF, Cloudflare, F5, Imperva, Akamai, FortiWeb), agentic/LLM-backed systems, security operations/detection engineering, platform teams serving internal engineering, event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pulsar, Kinesis, Flink)
Responsibilities
Lead and mentor a diverse team of engineers and security practitioners, translate ambiguous goals into sequenced deliverables, partner with Product and Staff-level Technical Lead, establish operational discipline (design review, release practices, on-call, incident response), challenge technical assumptions and unblock the team
Seniority
Senior, hands-on leadership
