Vice President of Engineering, Snyk
Developer security platform
Open for applications
Developer security platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower businesses to develop fast and stay secure.
Role
Who you are
- Deep understanding of the Snyk stack, and how it serves the needs of developers
- The VP, Engineering must be able to dive arbitrarily deep when required and work directly with the teams on understanding their key technical challenges, and helping them to find a path forward
- Proven experience managing an organization of 50+, with focus on systematically developing our key talent, running the rewards system and setting consistent standards across the team
- Strong ability to drive execution by ensuring that key programs have strong cross-functional plans, and that those plans are well executed
- Intervene when execution is off-track, whether it’s in the Division or elsewhere in the organization
- Collaboratively devise a long-term strategy for the organization, spanning both the key customer needs, and strategic functional evolution of the product, in addition to the key non-functional requirements of the product (reliability, scale, supportability, maintainability)
- Ensure that this long-term strategy is operationalized by near-term milestones, and clearly present this progress to the organization and senior leadership
- Are a kind and thoughtful leader who works to earn followership
- Appreciate a fast moving, energetic, and collaborative environment
Desirable
- Possess an adaptable communications toolkit and are able to tailor their approach to different stakeholders, presenting the same information in the way that each will find most relevant and impactful
- Are able to drive consensus with a broad range of technical and non-technical stakeholders, often making hard decisions while leaving everyone feeling respected and heard
- Earns the respect of their team by offering a challenging but respectful perspective and pushing the team to do more than they thought possible
- Encourage a learning culture by modeling humility and respect in all of their interactions with others at Snyk
- Foster an open and non-judgemental dialog with the team about where they can improve and pushes the team to implement those learnings
What the job involves
- As the VP, Engineering and division leader they are a model of the best of Snyk. They create high-performing organizations focused on learning and constant improvement
- They lead with humility, seek to absorb divergent perspectives and they understand the details, digging in deeply to drive strong execution across their area, and ensuring that our planned work helps drive the strategic direction of the company
- Leading one of the most critical divisions in Snyk, directly responsible for our CLI, IDE and SCM integrations
- Aligning with other Division Leads to implement a best in class experience for developers across all Snyk surfaces
- Building a single consistent developer experience across all of Snyk which combines our SCA and SAST products, while enriching them with context from AppRisk
- Driving execution of key initiatives around Developer Experience, both within the division, and across all of Engineering
- Paying meticulous attention to the details - ensuring that we have excellent project plans and execute well against them. Intervene when technical programs are off-track to ensure that they deliver
- Building an excellent team to deliver on this mission and ensuring that they continue to grow and thrive at Snyk. This includes developing an environment where all of our people can thrive
Our take
Open source software is a highly lucrative market and is growing fast. However, open source components can come with vulnerabilities, and so their widespread use in apps becomes a liability to a company’s cybersecurity. Snyk has built a way to detect when those apps or components are compromised.
The company works with developers, who are now commonly the owners of application security. It integrates into existing developer workflows, compatible with the likes of GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab, as well as CI/CD. Snyk also varies its approach with enterprises depending on their security needs, working on-premises, via the cloud or a hybrid. This puts the company in a strong position to target all enterprises as customers. In this, Snyk has already been successful - it has hundreds of customers, including Google and Salesforce.
Valued at $8.5bn back in 2021, Snyk has lately been focused on growth and platform improvement. It is not alone in the space, with competitors including SonarQube and Veracode, but has nonetheless remained one of the largest market players; raising funds in 2023 that come alongside an integration with ServiceNow, to further bolster the value of its offerings.
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Insights
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35% female employees
-21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Intelligent people
"Some of the smartest people I have ever worked with and people are always willing to help, so this impacts you directly. Hugely experienced..."
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jan 2023
$25m
LATE VC
Dec 2022
$196.5m
SERIES G
Total funding: $1.6bn
Company benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Work-from home allowances & in-office perks
- Time off for learning and self development
- Health benefits, employee assistance plans, and annual wellness allowance with unlimited one-on-one wellness coaching sessions
- Generous vacation and wellness time off, and country-specific holidays
- 100% paid parental leave for all caregivers
- Country-specific life insurance, disability benefits, and retirement/pension programs
- Mobile phone and education allowances
- Snyk Impact - Build a more inclusive tech industry and help us power a more sustainable and secure world with Snyk Impact programs
Company values
- Care deeply - We create positive change: We lead with empathy for our customers, partners, and Snykers globally to evolve our customers’ organizations, as well as communities in which we live and work.
- One team - We rely on each other: We extend beyond geographical and departmental limits, fostering collaboration, inclusion, and transparency in the ways we work and support each other.
- Customer Centric - We drive business impact: We build security solutions, adapting quickly to market changes to provide an outstanding customer experience, leading to adoption and high satisfaction.
- Forward Thinking - We shape the future: We are driven by our ambition to inspire trust and lead the industry, surpassing limits to build unparalleled technology.
Company HQ
Financial District, Boston, MA
Articles
Leadership
Guy Podjarny
(President and Chairman of the Board)Founded Blaze (optimising websites) and was acquired by Akamai 2 years later. Guy then was CTO for Akamai for 4 years.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Snyk
Ashley Ladd (Director, Diversity, Inclusion & Social Impact)
- At Snyk, we're on a mission to make the digital world a safer place and we believe that a safer world starts with one that reflects all of us. From our global team at Snyk to our customers and partners around the world, we're building a company that celebrates our differences and leverages them as our strength. Snyk's core values secure our deeply connected culture, and help us to foster a safe, and inclusive company where everyone belongs.
- Snyk Resource Groups (SRGs) are Snyker-led groups whose purpose is to foster a community-focused, inclusive workplace where all employees feel like they belong. Through strategic programming, community building, networking events, and professional development opportunities, SRGs are the catalyst of Snyk’s inclusion, equity, and diversity efforts.. To date, we have six SRGs: Accessibility@Snyk, Asian@Snyk, Black@Snyk, Mosaic@Snyk, Queer@Snyk, SnykHER. Learn more about our SRG missions at: https://snyk.io/careers/
- We envision a more inclusive industry powering a more sustainable and secure digital world. Our focus on addressing problems for our social and environmental stakeholders positively impacts society and builds momentum for the entire Snyk community. Learn more at: https://snyk.io/about/snyk-impact/
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