Director of Engineering - MetaDefender Managed File Transfer

OPSWAT , a global leader in IT, OT , and ICS critical infrastructure cybersecurity, delivers an end-to-end platform that gives public and private sector organizations and enterprises the critical advantage needed to protect their complex networks, secure their devices, and ensure compliance. Over the last 20 years our commitment to innovative technology has earned the trust of more than 1,700 organizations, governments, and institutions globally, solidifying our role in protecting the world’s critical infrastructure and securing our way of life. Director of Engineering — Meta Defender Managed File Transfer Reports to: VP, Products Protecting the World’s Critical Infrastructure OPSWAT, a global leader in IT, OT, and ICS critical infrastructure cybersecurity, delivers an end-to-end platform that gives public and private sector organizations and enterprises the critical advantage they need to protect their complex networks, secure their devices, and ensure compliance.

Trusted by more than 1,700 organizations, governments, and institutions worldwide — including many of the world’s largest governments, utilities, financial institutions, and defense contractors — OPSWAT protects the systems that keep society running. The Product: MetaDefender Managed File Transfer MetaDefender Managed File Transfer is OPSWAT’s secure managed file transfer solution, trusted by governments and critical infrastructure operators to move sensitive files safely across enterprise networks and partner boundaries. It embeds OPSWAT’s threat prevention technology — multiscanning, Deep CDR, and DLP — directly into every file flow.

This role owns the engineering for the product across its full range of deployment form factors — air-gapped, cross-domain, internet-connected, and native-cloud environments — each with its own security, assurance, and operational demands, and all built to scale.

About This Role

We are looking for a Director of Engineering who leads from the front. This is a hands-on, technically-centric leadership role — not a pure people-management position — with full accountability for the engineering of MetaDefender Managed File Transfer: architecture, delivery, quality, and the teams that build it. You will lead engineering across multiple deployment form factors — from air-gapped and cross-domain environments to internet-connected and native-cloud deployments — operating with the rigor of a principal engineer and the clarity of an executive.

You are an AI-native engineering leader. You have personally orchestrated fleets of AI agents to architect, build, test, and ship production systems, and you have launched and released real products through a full AI-powered software development lifecycle (SDLC) — from specification and code generation to automated testing, review, and deployment. Product Management defines what to ship; you define how to build it.

You own the end-to-end delivery of the roadmap Product Management sets, hold the delivery bar, and build a high-performance culture that the rest of OPSWAT’s engineering portfolio will look to as a model for AI-native development. You report to the VP, Products, and lead a distributed team across Romania, Vietnam, and Hungary, while the role itself can be based anywhere, with a preference for the UK, USA, or near an OPSWAT-operated location. What You Will Be Doing Lead as an AI-first effort: make AI agents a first-class part of how the team works — orchestrating agents to create specs, generate code and tests, verify results, and run reviews — while ensuring humans own and validate every line that ships.

Treat automation and intelligence as the default, not the exception. Stay hands-on: remain directly in the codebase — setting architecture patterns, writing and reviewing critical code, prototyping, and unblocking hard technical problems. You lead by doing, not only by delegating.