R&D Group Leader

Summary:

Data has never been more valuable, and more vulnerable. As cyber threats evolve and regulations tighten, organizations struggle to answer one key question: “Is my data secure?”

At Varonis, we take a different approach: we protect data from the inside out. Our fully autonomous Data Security Platform enables organizations to continuously reduce risk through intelligent automation, not manual effort.

We’re looking for an experienced R&D Group Leader to lead the Remediation domain, owning the systems that actually fix risk at scale, from policy definition to automated execution across customer environments.

This role sits at the heart of Varonis’ value: turning insights into real, safe, automated actions that reduce exposure across enterprise data.

We work in a flexible, hybrid model.

What You’ll Do

Leadership & Ownership

Lead and grow a group of engineers responsible for Data Lifecycle Automation (DLA), policies framework, and remediation automations
Own delivery, quality, and operational excellence of production systems running at scale
Define technical direction aligned with product and business goals

Product & Impact

Drive development of customer-facing remediation capabilities (e.g., permissions cleanup, stale access removal, exposure reduction)
Partner closely with Product, Security, and Customer Success to maximize real-world risk reduction outcomes
Translate complex security problems into scalable, automated solutions

Architecture & Systems

Own the design of distributed, highly scalable microservices handling policy evaluation, recommendation generation, and action execution
Ensure high reliability for real-time / near-real-time remediation flows
Drive best practices across CI/CD, observability, testing, and system resiliency
Enhance the execution of dev velocity and efficiency of leveraging AI agents.

Execution & Scale

Manage full lifecycle: ideation → design → production → customer impact
Balance innovation with operational stability in a fast-moving SaaS environment
Lead cross-team initiatives across Platform, access, Privacy, and AI domains

People Leadership

Mentor managers and senior engineers
Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, quality, and impact
Recruit and develop top-tier talent

Requirements:

Leadership & Experience

5+ years in engineering leadership (Group lead/director roles)
Proven experience delivering large-scale SaaS systems to production
Strong track record working across teams (Product, Infra, CS)

Technical Skills

Deep experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture
Experience building high-throughput, production-grade systems
Strong cloud experience (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP also relevant)
Experience with data-intensive systems / pipelines (advantage)

Domain Experience (Advantage)

Security / data governance / access management / compliance domains
Automation systems or workflow engines
Policy-based systems or rule engines

Mindset

Strong product mindset with focus on customer impact
Hands-on technical leader who can dive deep when needed
Passion for building systems that operate reliably at massive scale
AI-native mindset: actively leverages AI tools

We invite you to check out our Instagram Page to gain further insight into the Varonis culture!

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Varonis is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

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