Vice President of Engineering

Exabeam

7d • $257,000 - $290,000 • Remote

About The Position

In cybersecurity, engineering isn’t just building software—it’s building the shield that protects the world’s enterprises from threats they can’t yet see. Exabeam is a six-time Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for SIEM and the largest independent security operations platform in the market, protecting organizations with AI-driven behavioral analytics that detect what rules-based systems miss. Our platform processes over 1 million events per second, turns petabytes of security data into real-time intelligence, and powers the Security Operations Centers that defend some of the world’s most critical enterprises.
We’re looking for a VP of Engineering who leads with trust, builds through people, and creates environments where exceptional engineering happens as a natural consequence of exceptional culture. You’ll lead the organization responsible for Threat Center, Automation, Search, Outcomes Navigator, and Product Quality—translating our technology vision into engineering execution at a pivotal moment in the company’s trajectory.
This is not a caretaker role. With agentic AI reshaping security operations and the SIEM market converging around platform-scale intelligence, the leadership challenges ahead are as human as they are technical: building trust with globally distributed teams, maintaining velocity and morale through rapid growth, and developing the next generation of engineering leaders who will carry this platform forward.
About Exabeam
Exabeam pioneered the application of AI and machine learning to cybersecurity through User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), and today delivers a comprehensive Threat Detection, Investigation, and Response (TDIR) platform that unifies SIEM, UEBA, and SOAR in a single experience. Built cloud-native on Google Cloud Platform, the Exabeam New-Scale platform integrates 795+ behavioral models, 1,800+ anomaly rules, and 9,500+ pre-built log parsers to detect insider threats, credential abuse, and lateral movement that traditional tools miss.
In 2025, we launched Exabeam Nova—an agentic AI system with six specialized AI agents that automates investigation, risk scoring, search, and strategic advisory across the SOC. We introduced the industry’s first AI Agent Behavior Analytics, securing the emerging non-human workforce of enterprise AI agents. And our Outcomes Navigator became the first SIEM capability to offer configurable peer benchmarking against the MITRE ATT&CK framework, helping CISOs measure and communicate the value of their security programs.
We are a PE-backed company (Thoma Bravo) with approximately 850 employees across six continents, operating with the urgency of a growth-stage company and the ambition of a market leader. We shipped 400+ product innovations in the past year alone.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive leadership in SaaS or platform organizations, including 5+ years leading teams of 50+ people across multiple product areas. Your background may span engineering, product operations, technical program management, or general management—what matters is that you’ve led the delivery of complex SaaS products at scale.
• Demonstrated culture builder —You’ve built team cultures that attract and retain top talent through a genuine sense of purpose, psychological safety, and shared ownership of outcomes. You can point to specific teams you’ve built, practices you’ve introduced, or cultural transformations you’ve led that materially improved retention, engagement, and output. References will confirm it.
• Trust-based leadership track record — you’ve led through influence and earned authority, not positional power. You’ve navigated organizational change, competing priorities, or rapid growth by building coalitions, maintaining transparency, and keeping teams aligned through uncertainty.
• Global distributed team leadership — you’ve successfully led organizations spanning multiple geographies and time zones. You understand the intentional communication, organizational design, and cultural investment required to make distributed teams exceptional rather than merely functional.
• Strong customer experience and success orientation — you’ve worked in organizations where the teams building the product are deeply connected to customer outcomes. You’ve built processes that translate customer pain into priorities and partnered closely with Customer Success, Support, and Product teams.
• SaaS platform fluency — you understand the operational realities of running a cloud-native SaaS platform: release cadences, reliability expectations, observability, incident management, and the relationship between platform health and customer trust. You’ve led teams through the pressures of maintaining uptime while shipping innovation.
• Observability and operational excellence mindset — whether from building observability practices or embedding SRE-driven culture, you understand that production insight is the foundation of product quality and customer trust.

Nice To Haves

• Background in cybersecurity, SIEM, UEBA, or security operations—understanding the adversarial nature of the space and the operational pressures facing customer SOC teams
• Experience leading within complex systems environments—large-scale data platforms, event-driven architectures, or high-throughput distributed systems where operational complexity is a defining challenge
• Background in observability, APM, monitoring, or IT operations management platforms—the technical and operational parallels to SIEM are strong
• Experience with AI/ML-driven product organizations, particularly those applying behavioral analytics, anomaly detection, or agentic AI to customer workflows
• Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure at scale (GCP, AWS, or Azure), particularly as it relates to cost optimization, reliability, and data processing
• Experience in PE-backed or high-growth environments where operational efficiency, measurable outcomes, and disciplined execution are expected
• Track record navigating organizational transformation—scaling teams, integrating acquisitions, or evolving operating models while maintaining team health and delivery velocity

Responsibilities

• Platform strategy and execution. You will own the engineering roadmap and delivery for five critical product areas that form the backbone of the Exabeam platform:
• Threat Center
• Automation
• Search
• Outcomes Navigator
• Product Quality
• People leadership and organizational health. You’ll lead a globally distributed team of 50 engineers across the US and India, including partnering with engineering managers, architects, and individual contributors. Your primary job is to build a leadership bench that multiplies your impact—developing engineering managers into confident, autonomous leaders and creating the organizational health that allows great work to happen. You’ll design team structures that maximize collaboration across time zones while empowering local ownership.
• Customer-obsessed engineering culture. You’ll build direct feedback loops between engineering and the customer experience—connecting production telemetry, support escalations, Customer Success insights, and product analytics to drive continuous improvement. Customer SOC analysts work under extraordinary pressure, 24/7. You’ll ensure every engineer on your teams understands how their work impacts those analysts’ ability to defend their organizations. Customer empathy isn’t a slide in a deck—it’s a daily practice.
• Technical partnership. You’ll be a trusted partner in shaping Exabeam’s technical direction. Your engineering directors bring deep technical rigor to architectural decisions. Your role is to ensure the organizational conditions—team health, clarity of priorities, engineering culture, operational discipline—that allow strong technical decisions to be made well and executed with excellence.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed