Director, Software Engineering

Own engineering execution across the product: delivery, quality, and technical accountability across all teams.

Lead, develop, and hold accountable a set of engineering managers; build their capacity to run their teams independently.

Drive org design decisions: team scope, composition, sequencing of team splits, and addition of new management capacity as the org grows.

Balance engineering capacity across teams; make explicit prioritization calls when demand exceeds supply.

Own the technical roadmap in partnership with the product manager, who owns the product and feature roadmap.

Engage at the architecture level with senior ICs—reviewing designs, providing guidance, and ensuring technical coherence across the platform.

Supervise hiring across engineering teams: set the bar, calibrate across managers, and close strong candidates.

Partner with the VP of Engineering on org strategy, headcount planning, and cross-product engineering initiatives.

Communicate clearly to senior leadership on progress, risks, and tradeoffs across the roadmap.

Ensure engineering practices—security, quality, reliability, and operational discipline—meet the standards required for mission-critical deployments.

You lead through managers: you develop them, hold them accountable, and build the systems that let them succeed independently.

You have the technical depth to engage meaningfully on architecture and design with senior ICs—you don't need to write the code, but you need to understand it.

You think at the org level: headcount, team structure, scope boundaries, and sequencing are as natural to you as roadmap and delivery.

You execute with rigor and communicate with clarity—up to VP and across to peers, without losing the technical truth.

You thrive in hybrid deployment environments: you understand the operational complexity of software that lives both in cloud and on customer-controlled infrastructure.

You hold a high bar and create the conditions for others to meet it—through clarity, coaching, and accountability.

You bring calm, structured decision-making to ambiguous, fast-moving problem spaces.

You have experience in defense, intelligence, or national security technology environments.

You've led engineering organizations building operational platforms for government or mission-critical customers.

You've worked with graph databases or graph-based modeling for complex analytical problems.

You've led teams shipping enterprise features: multi-tenancy, RBAC, audit logging, or similar.

You have experience with secure development practices for government or controlled environments.

You've scaled an engineering organization through a rapid growth phase, including adding management layers.

React + TypeScript for user-facing applications and shared UI components

Go (and sometimes Python) for backend services and integrations

Neo4j and graph-based data modeling for core platform capabilities

PostgreSQL, Terraform, Ansible, and infrastructure-as-code

AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability tooling

Customer private cloud deployment and on-site operational environments

Benefits What's on the table:

Health. Medical, dental, and vision plan options. Life / AD&D, disability coverage options.

Family. Paid parental leave for eligible full-time employees. 12 weeks for birthing parents, 4 for non-birthing parents, 6 weeks for adoptive, foster, or intended parents through surrogacy.

Vacation. Paid holidays and flexible PTO. Take what you need.

Retirement. 401(k) with pre-tax and Roth options. HSA/FSA options, dependent care FSA.

Benefits vary by location, role, and eligibility. Full plan details provided during the interview and offer process.

If this role sounds like you, apply and share with us your interest

Due to U.S. government contract and security requirements, this role is limited to U.S. citizens. Some positions may also require eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance. Any active clearance requirement will be listed in the role description.

Twenty is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected status, consistent with applicable law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation during the hiring process, let us know and we will work with you.