Surfshark - Chief Technology Officer (Incogni)
Requirements
• Proven scaling experience: you have successfully scaled engineering organizations and guided teams through complex, distributed architecture transitions; • Systems thinking: you possess the architectural chops to see the big picture and challenge technical proposals, combined with the leadership maturity to let your Tech Leads design the details; • Systems thinking • Cloud-native & security expertise: you have a deep appreciation for modern infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes) and understand the existential security and compliance burdens of a privacy-first company; • Cloud-native & security expertise • Low-ego leadership: you derive fulfillment from building elite engineering organizations and mentoring managers, not from micromanaging or being the sole architect; • Low-ego leadership • Consensus building: you know how to consolidate a vision from the bottom up and successfully sponsor/sell it to the executive team and board; • Consensus building • Advocacy for autonomy: you respect and know how to maintain a culture where engineers are empowered to own their work and steer product/UX decisions. • Advocacy for autonomy
Responsibilities
• Drive the technical North Star: partner with technical leadership to finalize and champion a unified architectural roadmap; • Drive the technical North Star • Standardize delivery: establish uniform Project Management and delivery baselines across all teams to ensure predictable execution without suffocating bottom-up agility. • Standardize delivery • Embed compliance by design: implement strict observability standards across all peripheral infrastructure and build security automations directly into our CI/CD pipelines (AWS/EKS); • Embed compliance by design • Engineer for resilience: own our Disaster Recovery (DRP) and Business Continuity (BCP) strategy — defining and regularly testing RTO/RPO targets — while holding the line on performance-driven quality standards (SLOs, load, and latency) so the platform stays fast and available under real-world stress; • Mentor the management layer: act as a low-ego coach and sounding board for our Engineering Managers, providing the perspective and guidance they need to solve systemic problems autonomously; • Mentor the management layer • Formalize operational excellence: champion a blameless, automated post-mortem culture for production incidents and ensure robust alerting; • Formalize operational excellence • Protect innovation: balance top-tier product initiatives with a sustainable, protected budget for technical debt, foundational architecture, and engineering-led innovation; • Protect innovation • Collaborate at the executive level: work within a product trio model (Product, Engineering, Business) to align on what we build, while taking ownership of how and when we build it. • Collaborate at the executive level
Benefits
• Impact: a seat at the executive table shaping the future of a rapidly growing, globally impactful privacy product; • Impact • High autonomy: a mature culture that champions bottom-up innovation and trusts engineers to own their workflows; • High autonomy • Professional growth: dedicated budgets for your professional development, conferences, and training; • Professional growth • Top-tier environment: modern hardware, flexible working models, and the standard perks, health, and wellness benefits you expect from a leading tech company. • Top-tier environment • Here’s the deal: • Here’s the deal: • Growth and learning opportunities: time dedicated to learning, conferences, online learning platforms, and books for your professional development; • Growth and learning opportunities: • Health and wellness: we want you to feel and be your best. That's why we offer various benefits, from online workouts and a physical coach to health insurance and regular mental health checks; • Health and wellness: • Tools of your choice: choose the technical equipment and tools you need to do your best work; • Tools of your choice: • Work-life balance: We encourage working in the office, with the possibility of up to two remote days per week. Plus, with our WFA policy, you can work from almost anywhere in the world; • Work-life balance: • More days off: additional vacation days depending on your tenure; • More days off: • Premium Surfshark accounts: for you, your family, and friends; • Premium Surfshark accounts: • Gross salary: 9000 - 12000 Eur/month. Although it may vary depending on your skills and experience.
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