# Director / Senior Director of Engineering, Zero Trust Network Access at Alkira

- Company: Alkira
- What the company does: Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia and GV.
- Company website: https://www.alkira.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Jose, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $167K to $279K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-05
- Apply by: 2026-11-19
- Apply: https://alkira.bamboohr.com/careers/281?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/alkira-director-senior-director-of-engineering-zero-trust-network-access/

## About the role

We are seeking a Director or Senior Director of Engineering to own Alkira's Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) product end to end: the client, the control and management planes, and the team that builds them. You will set the long-term direction, build for scale and security, and deliver results that grow revenue and protect margins. The level will be based on experience and depth of expertise. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Own the long-term vision, architecture, and roadmap for ZTNA, and lead transitions in core technologies such as tunneling, transport, and identity as the product evolves
- Design for scale from the start: customer growth, concurrent users, global distribution, and high availability
- Hire, develop, and lead engineers and managers
- Build for scale: tenant growth, concurrent users, global distribution, and high availability
- Apply zero-trust and secure-by-design principles throughout, and lead threat modeling, security reviews, and vulnerability response for the product
- Lead development of the cross-platform desktop client, and extend it to iOS and Android

Tags: Engineering - R&D

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