Hiring: Head of Engineering Company: Base Operations Location: Washington, DC Job Posted Time: 2026-09-15 11:17:50 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : CI/CD, FedRAMP, LLM, Program Management, Security Clearance About the job Experience: •10+ years of progressive experience spanning software engineering, data architecture, and engineering management, with at least 3 years in a formal people-leadership role (Engineering Manager, Director, or equivalent). •At least 3 years in a formal people-leadership role (Engineering Manager, Director, or equivalent). Required Skills: •Own the long-term data architecture strategy across our threat intelligence pipelines, ensuring systems scale cleanly as data volume, data types, customer count, and federal compliance requirements grow. •Make platform decisions (storage, pipelines, data modeling, database/data warehousing, ML/AI Ops) that balance speed, cost, and the dual-use constraints of serving both commercial and federal customers (e.g., data segregation, CUI handling, FedRAMP/CMMC-adjacent considerations). •Partner with product and GRC on data governance, lineage, and security-by-design as the platform matures. •Program & Delivery Management •Implement industry-standard program management discipline for engineering delivery — technical debt & product roadmaps, sprint cadences, dependency tracking, release velocity tracking, and risk surfacing — without slowing the team down with process for its own sake. •Own predictability: leadership and the board should be able to trust engineering's commitments and timelines. •Run cross-functional planning with Product and GTM to align engineering output with enterprise and federal sales cycles. •Software Engineering Leadership Qualifications: •Prior experience at a company serving both commercial and federal/defense customers. •Existing or prior eligibility for a U.S. government security clearance. •Team: Oversee team of Developers, Data Analysts, ML Engineers, Data Engineers, DevOps •Travel: Occasional, primarily for team offsites and senior leadership engagements Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!