Head of Security Engineering

Our Customers Develop Software at the Speed of Ideas

CloudBees is powering the continuous economy by offering the world’s first end-to-end continuous software delivery management system (SDM). For millions of developers and product teams driving innovation for businesses large or small, SDM builds on continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) to enable all functions and teams within and around the software delivery organization to best work together to amplify value creation.

CloudBees is the continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and application release automation (ARA) powerhouse built from the commercial success of its products and its open source leadership as the largest contributor to Jenkins and a founding member of the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF). With a globally distributed workforce of more than 500 employees, the company reflects the global nature of the DevOps movement. We believe in walking the talk! From startups with full-stack developers practicing NoOps to large Fortune 100 companies, CloudBees enables all software-driven organizations to intelligently deploy the right capabilities at the right time.

Over 3,500 of the world’s best known brands and over 50% of the Fortune 500, invest in CloudBees because of its ability to work across any cloud, in any development environment and to balance corporate governance and control with developer flexibility and freedom.

CloudBees is home to the world’s leading DevOps experts helping thousands of companies harness the power of “continuous everything” and putting them on the fastest path from great idea, to great software, to great business value.

Why This Position?

This specific opening for an engineering management role was created because of our growth in product offerings, greater velocity of new feature delivery and customer communications. We recognize that a skilled engineering management leader with experience working in other organizations that have gone through rapid growth can have a transformative impact on the success of our product initiatives in the market.

What You’ll Do

• Own the execution and delivery of security engineering projects
• Establish and execute on goals for the engineering team by becoming a trusted leader and advisor
• Plan and lead Agile Sprints and other ceremonies for a high growth/high performance engineering team
• Focus on hiring and retaining top talent for your team
• Work closely with your peers in the engineering to coordinate activities related to new product and feature delivery across the product, field and marketing organizations
• Ensure that new products and features are successfully launched into the market and achieve their goals for awareness, adoption and revenue
• Continuously communicate status and plans for new product/feature delivery and GTM activities across the organizations
• Identify and drive resolution of roadblocks and issues that impact the success of new product and feature delivery
• Provide leadership for a high-performing software engineering team by:
• Performance appraisal and feedback
• Setting goals and establishing metrics and accountability
• Coaching and mentoring
• Career growth guidance/assistance
• Recruiting and hiring engineers
• Facilitation of knowledge and expertise sharing among team members
• Mediation and conflict resolution
• Advocate for needs and concerns of team members

What The Role Requires

• Demonstrated success in leading 5 or more people, including remote engineers, in enterprise software. Preferably in a Tech Lead or Architect or ScrumMaster capacity
• Recent experience in software development - must feel very comfortable and up to date with coding  
• Prior hands-on experience writing Java code and doing code reviews
• 5+ years of experience developing distributed, multi threaded Java applications
• Deep knowledge of Core Java and RDBMS is a must 
• Solid experience with Spring and Hibernate frameworks is a big plus
• Hands on experience with cloud native continuous delivery tools.
• Familiarity with modern software development practices including agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery, open-source
• Experience in coordinating activities across all software functions including engineering, product management, product marketing, support, etc.
• Proficiency with Software Development practices, Java, Cloud, Kubernetes, Jira, etc.  
• Superior written and verbal communication skills
• Talent for leading through influence and inspiring high achievement

What You’ll Get

• Highly competitive benefits and vacation package
• Ability to work for one of the fastest growing companies with some of the most talented people in the industry
• High-functioning remote-first culture with a diverse team of co-workers located around the world
• Fun, Hardworking, and Casual Environment
• Endless Growth Opportunities

At CloudBees, we truly believe that the more diverse we are, the better we serve our customers. A global community like Jenkins demands a global focus from CloudBees. Organizations with greater diversity—gender, racial, ethnic, and global—are stronger partners to their customers. Whether by creating more innovative products, or better understanding our worldwide customers, or establishing a stronger cross-section of cultural leadership skills, diversity strengthens all aspects of the CloudBees organization.

In the technology industry, diversity creates a competitive advantage. CloudBees customers demand technologies from us that solve their software development, and therefore their business problems, so that they can better serve their own customers. CloudBees attributes much of its success to its worldwide work force and commitment to global diversity, which opens our proprietary software to innovative ideas from anywhere. Along the way, we have witnessed firsthand how employees, partners, and customers with diverse perspectives and experiences contribute to creative problem solving and better solutions for our customers and their businesses.