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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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.
  
  

• 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
  
  

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

• 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)
  
  

• 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)
  
  

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

• 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