The Role
Leads a product engineering team delivering complex GRID platform solutions through specification-driven, agentic development. Partners with Product and Design, defines technical direction, makes architecture and security decisions, manages delivery risks, validates customer value, and guides AI agents through implementation, testing, and debugging. Owns initiatives from discovery through production, coaches engineers, improves team practices, and ensures reliable delivery.
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Lead Product Engineer, SDE3
As a Lead Product Engineer (SDE3), you’ll lead a product engineering team in shaping and delivering complex solutions for the GRID platform through specification-driven, agentic development. You’ll partner with Product and Design to understand customer problems, define solutions, and guide AI agents through implementation. You’ll remain accountable for what the team ships: setting technical direction, validating results, managing delivery risks, and ensuring the work creates customer value.
You’ll combine hands-on product development with technical leadership, coaching engineers and improving how the team works. This is a technical leadership role.
Location
Atlanta, GA
Remote
Job Duties and Responsibilities
As a Lead Product Engineer (SDE3), you’ll lead a product engineering team in shaping and delivering complex solutions for the GRID platform through specification-driven, agentic development. You’ll partner with Product and Design to understand customer problems, define solutions, and guide AI agents through implementation. You’ll remain accountable for what the team ships: setting technical direction, validating results, managing delivery risks, and ensuring the work creates customer value.
You’ll combine hands-on product development with technical leadership, coaching engineers and improving how the team works. This is a technical leadership role.
Location
Atlanta, GA
Remote
Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Partner with Product, Design, engineering, and customer-facing teams to shape solutions and influence product direction.
- Identify dependencies and delivery risks, unblock the team, and communicate changes to commitments early.
- Break initiatives into small, independently deliverable increments for agent execution and rapid feedback.
- Own complex solutions from discovery through production delivery and customer validation.
- Set technical direction, review designs, and make sound decisions about architecture, security, reliability, and maintainability.
- Direct AI agents through implementation, testing, debugging, and refinement.
- Coach engineers and raise the team’s quality and consistency through feedback, mentorship, and shared practices.
- Encourage constructive debate, help the team reach decisions, and create accountability for executing them.
- Other duties as assigned by management
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field.
- 7+ years of experience building and maintaining production software systems.
- 2+ years of experience operating as a Tech Lead, Lead Engineer, Staff Engineer, or equivalent technical leadership role.
- A demonstrated record of owning complex initiatives from an ambiguous problem through production delivery.
- Experience setting technical direction, making architectural decisions, managing delivery risks, and mentoring engineers without relying on formal authority.
- Strong product judgment and the ability to turn customer and business problems into precise specifications and measurable acceptance criteria.
- Practical experience using AI agents across implementation, testing, and debugging.
- Strong engineering fundamentals to evaluate architecture, data flow, tests, edge cases, and security.
- Clear communication, sound judgment, collaborative instincts, and a record of delivering on commitments.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field
- 7+ years of experience building and maintaining production software systems
- 2+ years operating as a Tech Lead, Lead Engineer, Staff Engineer, or equivalent technical leadership role
- Demonstrated experience owning complex initiatives from ambiguous problems through production delivery
- Experience setting technical direction, making architectural decisions, managing delivery risks, and mentoring engineers without formal authority
- Strong product judgment and ability to translate customer and business problems into precise specifications and measurable acceptance criteria
- Practical experience using AI agents for implementation, testing, and debugging
- Strong engineering fundamentals for evaluating architecture, data flow, tests, edge cases, and security
- Clear communication, sound judgment, collaborative instincts, and a record of delivering on commitments
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The Company
What We Do
DefenseStorm provides an integrated platform of cyber risk assessment, governance, security, and fraud solutions that ensure financial institutions achieve and maintain cyber risk readiness. The only system specifically built for banking, it accounts for all the daunting challenges, regulations, and technology requirements financial institutions face. Their intelligent data engine, GRID ACTIVE, ensures real-time access, analysis, and action on all critical threat data. The Cyber Threat Surveillance Operations (CTS Ops) team offers access to managed resources 24x7x365, providing the help and expertise needed by financial institutions. Offices locations: Alpharetta, Georgia - Corporate Headquarters Wilmington, North Carolina - Business Development Center
