Job description
BitSight’s mission is to enable trust in digital transactions. Together, we are transforming how the market governs cybersecurity risk through Security Ratings. BitSight Security Ratings are real-time, data-driven measurements of cyber security performance that help companies, investors, insurers, government agencies and regulators make informed, dynamic risk decisions impacting business results, financial investments and national security.
- Founded in 2011, BitSight transforms how organizations manage information security risk.
- Manage third party risk, underwrite cyber insurance policies, benchmark performance, conduct M&A due diligence and assess aggregate risk.
- Seven of the top 10 cyber insurers, 20% of Fortune 500 companies, and 3 of the top 5 investment banks use BitSight
- BitSight is the most widely used Security Ratings Service with over 2,500 customers and the largest ecosystem of users and information
Bitsight is looking for a talented Director of Core Engineering to build and lead our Core Engineering Infrastructure teams. These teams are the foundation that drive the engine for all of our engineering activity- encompassing DevOps, Security, and developer tooling & experience.
The Director of Core Engineering will report to the SVP, Engineering and will serve as a member of the engineering leadership team.
Bitsight’s mission is to make the online world a safer place by helping governments, companies, and NGOs understand and mitigate their cybersecurity risks. Ours is an internet-scale challenge, we ingest security-related intelligence data from over 100 sources, feed terabytes of data into a proprietary rating algorithm, and deliver ratings for over 500,000 organizations on a daily basis. As the Director of Core Engineering Infrastructure team, you will be enabling continued growth by ensuring that our services are available and performant, that our devOps and developer experiences provides competitive advantages and own key big rock initiatives like information security and cloud program management.
At Bitsight, we pride ourselves in building exceptional career opportunities and offering outstanding benefits to our team. We have the enthusiasm of a start-up but the structure and solidity of a mature industry leader.
Skills and characteristics of a strong candidate
Delivery
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Lead development, enhancement, operation and maintenance core engineering systems that are the base layer of BitSight’s applications, including the front-end, back-end and data layers
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Create competitive advantage by leading BitSight to have the best software delivery performance in the space
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Improve business outcomes by taking responsible for supporting core infrastructure needs of multiple lines of business and supporting their business goal achievement through core engineering initiatives
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Responsible for delivery spanning many areas including
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Line of business support
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Line of business escalations
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Cloud strategy and cost management
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Align with CISO roadmap
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Service quality, reliability and resiliency
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Observability
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Work cross-functionally with engineering leadership to deliver on core infrastructure needs across all BitSight engineering teams.
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Exhibit strong collaboration skills with engineering leaders, engineering teams, engineers, and cross functional teams within R&D to deliver core engineering that meets the needs of the business
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Lead complex engineering efforts, from scoping and task break-down through delivery, while keeping a healthy and engaged team.
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Ability to take on some non-blocking tasks to maintain empathy with the team
People
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Elite leadership skills in both direct authority leadership and cross functional leadership
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Team management – experience managing people, both directly and indirectly is required and experience scaling an organization is needed
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Lead, build, invest and operate high performing core infrastructure engineering teams
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Take on team ownership including evolving team structure and organizational design, hiring, and internal development of emerging leaders and individual contributors.
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Guide professional development of direct reports by setting clear goals and encouraging a growth mindset
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Adapt to the behavioral alignment of the team and coach / train team members to demonstrate team cohesion to the defined culture and values of the organization
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Elevate the performance of the team through contextual leadership, cohesion, clarity and investment
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Solicit and deliver candid and constructive feedback.
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Create a positive team culture aligned with our team and company values.
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Hold difficult conversations and mediate interpersonal conflict.
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Consistently demonstrate elite communication skills and strong operating discipline
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Elite EQ to accompany the strong experience
Organization
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Advocate for core infrastructure engineering, developer experience, software delivery performance as a practice
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Create competitive advantage and implement engineering best-practices and develop technical strategy to guide short and long-term plans.
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Partner with other leaders to drive business outcomes while nurturing a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in-line with our values.
You have
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The performance track record to confidently take pride in your work
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The chops to never back away from a challenge, leadership, management, technical or otherwise
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The vision to guide a growth company through critical growth stages
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Experience and dedication
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Strong integrity, high performing, high culture, outcome oriented
We have
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A team of aces to work with
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A high trust culture excellence, results and accountability
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A stack with the modern cloud based technologies
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An open mind for new ideas of methodologies
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Flexible work schedule and flexible work location benefits
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Belief in focus, flow and joy for our team members
Preferred Skills
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Experience software delivery performance, CI/CD and agile-like development methodologies
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Large scale Cloud based technologies and deployments
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Running teams that maintaining available, resilient performant systems
#LI-REMOTE
Diversity. BitSight is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. This means we do not tolerate discrimination of any kind and are committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of your gender identity, race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, status as a protected veteran, or status as an individual with a disability.
Culture. We put our people first. BitSight offers best in class benefits. We devote the same energy to nurturing our company's inclusive culture as we apply to serving our customers' needs. Working at BitSight will give you the opportunity to fulfill your professional goals and expand your skills.
Open-minded. If you got to this point, we hope you’re feeling excited about the job description you just read. Even if you don’t feel that you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We’re eager to meet people that believe in BitSight’s mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways.
Additional Information for United States of America Applicants:
Qualified applicants with criminal histories who are based in San Francisco and applying for remote roles will be considered for employment consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
This position may be considered a promotional opportunity, pursuant to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act.
If you are resident of Colorado or New York City, please email us at recruiting@bitsighttech.com to receive compensation and benefits information for this role.
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