Every day, the world gets more digital thanks to tens of millions of developers building the future faster than ever. But with exponential growth comes exponential risk, as outnumbered security teams struggle to secure mountains of code. This is where Snyk (pronounced “sneak”) comes in. Snyk is a developer security platform that makes it easy for development teams to find, prioritize, and fix security vulnerabilities in code, dependencies, containers, and cloud infrastructure — and do it all right from the start. Snyk is on a mission to make the world a more secure place by empowering developers to develop fast and stay secure.
Joining Snyk means embracing our core values: One Team, Care Deeply, Customer Centric, and Forward Thinking. As a member of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to thrive in a dynamic environment where fostering collaboration, leading with empathy, driving business impact, and inspiring trust are at the heart of everything we do.
Our Engineering organization is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead our Platform Engineering division. Platform Engineering at Snyk is responsible for our Cloud infrastructure and the platform experience we provide to our internal development teams. It is at the center of everything we do, and it’s stability, consistency and performance are a key part of our customers’ experience, and the way we can grow our company.
As the Vice President of Engineering, Platform Engineering, you will oversee everything from providing rock-solid infrastructure to low-level shared services, and from building a great internal developer experience through to setting the standards around our API and quality programs. You’ll also be the ultimate budget holder for strategic software and infrastructure vendors, so an interest in cost management and vendor relations is a must. The Platform Engineering organization at Snyk today is approximately 80 people strong, with office based and remote teams and individuals in the UK, Israel, Germany, Switzerland, Canada and the US.
Reporting to the Executive Vice President of Engineering, you will lead, build, and mentor a best-in-class Engineering team at scale and contribute heavily to the evolution of engineering as a function at Snyk.
You’ll spend your time:
- Shaping overall R&D Strategy to achieve Snyk’s company goals as part of R&D leadership team and collaborating deeply with your peers to make our goals happen.
- Building long-term roadmaps to help us stay ahead of the next challenge and invest for the future.
- Ensuring effective engineering execution for this critical domain.
- Diving deep into some of the most critical technical problems that we face and ensuring that the team are covering all angles.
- Building and coaching a world-class leadership team to drive the evolution of this critical function.
You should apply if you:
- Have a track record of building and operating scaled up distributed software applications.
- Have proven experience at the highest levels of engineering leadership in fast moving technology focused companies.
- Consider yourself a hands-on technical leader, able to dive into the details of our most important programs.
- Are a kind and thoughtful leader who works to earn followership.
- Appreciate a fast moving, energetic, and collaborative environment.
What You’ll Need:
- Proven experience in Enterprise SAAS at the highest levels of engineering leadership in fast moving technology focused companies.
- Expertise as a hands-on engineering leader, able to dive deeply into the technical details of our key programs as required.
- The ability to plan and succeed, setting milestones along the way, over-communicate, create alignment, rally people and satisfy stakeholders
- An appreciation for a fast moving, energetic, and collaborative environment
This job can be based in our Boston, Ottawa or London hubs.
We care deeply about the warm, inclusive environment we’ve created and we value diversity – we welcome applications from those typically underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this role but are not totally sure whether you’re the right person, do apply anyway!
About Snyk
Snyk is committed to creating an inclusive and engaging environment where our employees can thrive as we rally behind our common mission to make the digital world a safer place. From Snyk employee resource groups, to global benefits that help our employees prioritize their health, wellness, financial security, and a work/life blend, we aim to support our employees along their entire journeys here at Snyk.
Benefits & Programs
Prioritize health, wellness, financial security, and life balance with programs tailored to your location and role.
- Flexible working hours, work-from home allowances, in-office perks, and time off for learning and self development
- Generous vacation and wellness time off, country-specific holidays, and 100% paid parental leave for all caregivers
- Health benefits, employee assistance plans, and annual wellness allowance
- Country-specific life insurance, disability benefits, and retirement/pension programs, plus mobile phone and education allowances
