Chief Technology Officer

• Join an industry with massive socio, economic, and political importance in the 21st century
• Work alongside some of the best and the brightest minds in the security industry
• Leave an indelible mark on a company where individual performance has real impact
• Be recognized, internally and publicly, for your contributions in a high profile position
• Align your career trajectory with a hyper growth company that is on the move
• Be part of the leadership team designing and building out our first product
• Help drive novel research, that if successful, will be game changing to the security industry

• Partnering with product and engineering to bring quality software to our customers
• Aligning the strategy, planning, and execution of the technology roadmap with the company's business objectives
• Translating the company's long term bets and research and development initiatives into business outcomes

Starting with:

• A seasoned Executive team that has created a profitable company with a $35M run rate
• A seasoned VP Engineering with an experienced software development team
• 7 figures of Annual Recurring Revenue with 100% customer retention

• Successfully designed a platform that can match the scaling and cost optimization requirements of a freemium offering
• Architected a scan and correlation engine that meets our core value proposition commitments to our customers
• Assisted the engineering team operationalize our AI research and development into our vulnerability discovery pipelines
• Created a flexible, extensible, and portable architecture that allows customer-based reporting customization and an ecosystem of partner-based integrations
• Contributed to the attraction of A players to the research, development, and engineering teams

• 10 years of experience as a technology executive
• 10 years of people management experience leading a high performing team of architects, developers, and researchers
• Prior experience in a high growth, venture funded tech startup
• Prior software engineering, architecture, and research & development experience
• Deep experience architecting complex platforms using modern tech stacks, design patterns, and development practices
• Highest pinnacle of technical excellence with an ability to inspire confidence within your team and other departments and stakeholders
• Knack for cross-cutting technical excellence with pragmatic business acumen that allows you to serve as a trusted advisor to the CEO
• Track record of recruiting, mentoring, and scaling engineering talent and building a strong engineering culture in an agile environment
• Experience in a high-accountability, cross-functional environment who can work collaboratively and effectively with services, product, & engineering
• BS in computer science, engineering, physics, or mathematics

• Experience with rapid innovation processes and agile/scrum development practices
• Experience with single page applications, micro-service architectures, and event driven architectures
• Experience with artificial intelligence and an ability to lead the machine learning and data science team
• Prior background in the cybersecurity domain a major plus
• MS in computer science or computer engineering

• Exceptional team management skills with excellent verbal and written communication
• Ability to helicopter up and down between long-term technical strategy and day-to-day short-term needs
• Ability to simplify the complicated and direct team members to the highest-leveraged activities
• Ability to maintain high levels of output and work ethic
• Personable individual who enjoys working in a team-oriented environment
• Comfort dealing with ambiguity in an environment where we build the plane as we fly it
• Ability to self-direct work, orient to action, and truly own the position in a hyper-growth environment
• Ability to design product scale in 10X increments, but with a long term view from experience to prevent painting into corners

• Highly competitive salary
• Employee stock option plan
• 90% employee coverage and 60% dependent coverage on health insurance premiums
• 100% employee coverage and 60% dependent coverage on dental and vision insurance premiums
• 4% company 401K matching vested immediately 

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Praetorian.  We are an equal opportunity employer.  We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status.