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Job Title:

Chief Engineer

About Skyhigh Security:

Skyhigh Security is a dynamic, fast-paced, cloud company that is a leader in the security industry.  Our mission is to protect the world’s data, and because of this, we live and breathe security. We value learning at our core, underpinned by openness and transparency. 

Since 2011, organizations have trusted us to provide them with a complete, market-leading security platform built on a modern cloud stack. Our industry-leading suite of products radically simplifies data security through easy-to-use, cloud-based, Zero Trust solutions that are managed in a single dashboard, powered by hundreds of employees across the world. With offices in Santa Clara, Aylesbury, Paderborn, Bengaluru, Sydney, Tokyo and more, our employees are the heart and soul of our company. 

Skyhigh Security Is more than a company; here, when you invest your career with us, we commit to investing in you. We embrace a hybrid work model, creating the flexibility and freedom you need from your work environment to reach your potential. From our employee recognition program, to our ‘Blast Talks' learning series, and team celebrations (we love to have fun!), we strive to be an interactive and engaging place where you can be your authentic self. 

We are on these too! Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter@SkyhighSecurity.

Role Overview:

Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, the Skyhigh Security Chief Engineer has overall accountability for “how” Skyhigh develops its products, ensuring the predictable delivery of high-quality products. The Chief Engineer will be focused on shaping an engineering group that is capable of efficiently and effectively developing and operating a mission critical and highly scaled SaaS Service. This is a functional role working across several product verticals.

About the Role 

The Chief Engineer has overall accountability for “how” Skyhigh develops its products, ensuring the predictable delivery of high-quality products.  The Chief Engineer will be focused on shaping an engineering group that is capable of efficiently and effectively developing and operating a mission critical and highly scaled SaaS Service. This is a functional role working across several product verticals and reports to the Chief Technology Officer

Key Responsibilities 

  • Develop and maintain the Skyhigh SDLC, tailoring and adapting standard Agile models as the business evolves 

  • Develop and maintain engineering practice (e.g. coding standards, coding approaches such as BDD) 

  • Drive a continuous improvement culture within product engineering. Benchmark and measure against standards like DORA and develop improvement initiatives to drive improvement against the most important areas  

  • Establish, collect and maintain the key metrics that will be used as leading and lagging indicators to assess directional improvement 

  • Act as a functional leader for the engineering community. Including but not limited to establishing communities of practice, role design, career ladders, training & learning 

  • Embed a DevSecOps culture within the engineering group 

  • Work across the organization to make sure that the product lifecycle is as efficient and effective as possible from idea to implementation 

  • Accountable for determining the optimal engineering toolchain

  • Establish and foster a “you build it you run it” culture  

  • Establish and drive a Quality-first approach, including but not limited to: 

    • Build and maintain a Quality strategy 

    • Establish the key Quality metrics – lagging and leading indicators 

    • Build and run a quality improvement plan  

    • Drive functional consistency in quality the approach across different product verticals 

    • Ensure all levels of testing are undertaken effectively from unit testing up to full solution testing  

 About You 

  • Prior Experience in the role of Chief Engineer or Enterprise Architect with deep experience implementing 'quality-first' strategy, standards and practices across multiple engineering organizations

  • Strong Agile practitioner with experience working with large geographically distributed global teams 

  • Working knowledge of Agile and DevOps best practice frameworks 

  • High level of understanding of business impact on technical strategy 

  • Strong leadership skills including vision-setting, coaching and cross-team communication 

  • Strong influencing skills 

Company Benefits and Perks:

We work hard to embrace diversity and inclusion and encourage everyone to bring their authentic selves to work every day. We offer a variety of social programs, flexible work hours and family-friendly benefits to all of our employees.

  • Retirement Plans
  • Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
  • Paid Time Off
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Support for Community Involvement

We're serious about our commitment to diversity which is why we prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.

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