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title: 'Vice President of Engineering at Cobalt'
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# Vice President of Engineering at Cobalt

- **Company:** Cobalt
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/cobaltio/jobs/8784583002

## Job description

## Who We Are

Cobalt was founded on the belief of a fundamental human aspiration: the desire to live better and safer. It all started in 2013, when our founders realized that pentesting can be better. Today our diverse, fully remote team is committed to helping organizations of all sizes with seamless, effective and collaborative Offensive Security Testing that empower organizations to OPERATE FEARLESSLY and INNOVATE SECURELY.

Our customers can start a pentest in as little as 24 hours and integrate with advanced development cycles thanks to the powerful combination of our SaaS platform coupled with an exclusive community of testers known as the Cobalt Core. Accepting just 5% of applicants, the Cobalt Core boasts over 500 closely vetted and highly skilled testers who jointly conduct thousands of tests each year and are at the forefront of identifying and helping remediate risk across a dynamically changing attack surface.

Cobalt is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we strive to build a diverse and inclusive workforce at our company. At Cobalt we aspire to engage with diverse individuals, communities, and organizations in order to continue to nurture our unique rich diverse culture. Join our team, and be your true self to do your best work.

Description

Lead and mentor a global team of engineers to build the world’s most powerful AI driven offensive security platform. Reporting to the CTO, you will work closely with product management to execute the technology initiatives required to support the company’s rapid growth plans.

Job Duties

- Lead, hire, manage, mentor, and coach a team of global engineers as we build the leading scalable Offensive Security Platform
- Own the ongoing improvements of our existing offerings and the build out of new innovative products as we grow our portfolio
- Collaborate with the senior leadership team on cross functional initiatives
- Own the technical vision and architecture of our platform, ensuring that we are building for scale, stability, and resiliency
- Foster a culture of innovation and experimentation
- Create and implement standards around quality, efficiency and security
- Drive the adoption of best practices in engineering design, architecture, and development, ensuring all solutions are scalable, resilient, and high-performing
- Develop and own the strategy to continuously improve engineering quality and efficiency leveraging AI technologies, coding best practices, and agile methodologies

## Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field.
- 15 years of experience in software development, with 5 years of experience in building SaaS cybersecurity products.
- Strong multi-cloud engineering experience
- Experience establishing engineering standards and best practices for AI-assisted software development, including the effective use of tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar AI coding assistants.
- Demonstrated success driving adoption of AI-powered developer tooling and modern engineering practices to accelerate delivery while maintaining high standards for quality, security, and maintainability.
- Experience with Secure SDL best practices and building DevOps/DevSecOps teams
- Experience leading distributed international engineering teams
- Strong internal and external communication skills; experience working with a variety of business functions
- High emotional intelligence, adaptable, and comfortable with change
- Demonstrated ability to manage and scale engineering teams effectively, with a focus on technical excellence
- Tech Proficiency: Strong skills in our architecture: Ruby on Rails + JavaScript (React). Additional familiarity with other aspects of our tech stack is a plus: Node.js, cloud environments (GCP, Kubernetes)
- Proven ability to recruit, mentor, and retain great people
- Proven ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility

## Why You Should Join Us

- Grow in a passionate, rapidly expanding industry operating at the forefront of the Pentesting industry
- Work directly with experienced senior leaders with ongoing mentorship opportunities
- Earn competitive compensation and an attractive equity plan
- Save for the future with a 401(k) program (US) or pension (EU)
- Benefit from medical, dental, vision and life insurance (US) or statutory healthcare (EU)
- Leverage stipends for:
- Wellness
- Work-from-home equipment & wifi
- Learning & development
- Make the most of our flexible, generous paid time off and paid parental leave

Pay Range Disclosure (For US openings only)

Cobalt is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this role is ($250,000 - $275,000) + bonus + equity + benefits. A candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, and certifications.  The salary range may differ in other states and may be impacted by proximity to major metropolitan cities.

Cobalt (the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer, and we want the best available persons for every job. The Company makes employment decisions only based on merit. It is the Company's policy to prohibit discrimination in any employment opportunity (including but not limited to recruitment, employment, promotion, salary increases, benefits, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment) based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, pregnancy, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical/mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, height, weight or any other such characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. The Company is committed to complying with all applicable laws and providing equal employment opportunities. This commitment applies to all persons involved in the operations of the Company regardless of where the employee is located and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee of the Company.

Cobalt is an E-Verify employer. E-Verify is an Internet-based system operated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in partnership with the Social Security Administration (SSA). It allows participating employers to electronically verify the employment eligibility of their newly hired employees in the United States.

## About Cobalt

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cobalt provides a human-led, AI-powered Pentest as a Service (PtaaS) platform that enables organizations to conduct continuous offensive security testing across their attack surface.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed startup)
- **Headquarters**: United States (remote-first, with Scandinavian roots and presence in US, UK, and Germany)
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Martin Rannje and Christian Hansen (co-founders, per leadership page) [cobalt.io/team]

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity – specifically Penetration Testing as a Service (PtaaS) and offensive security.
- **Target customers**: B2B, ranging from SMB to enterprise, with a focus on development, security, and operations teams.
- **Mission**: To help organizations “operate fearlessly and innovate securely” by making security testing faster, simpler, and more transparent. [cobalt.io/about]

## Products & Services
- **Cobalt Platform (PTaaS)**: SaaS platform that pairs with a vetted community of pentesters to deliver on-demand penetration tests, starting in as little as 24 hours. Includes automated reconnaissance, AI-powered exploit intelligence, and integrations with ITSM, DevOps, and collaboration tools.
- **Offensive Security Services**: Penetration testing (web, mobile, network, cloud), Digital Risk Assessment (identifying publicly exposed information), and Secure Code Review.
- **Cobalt Core**: An exclusive community of over 400 highly vetted pentesters (acceptance rate ~5%) who conduct thousands of tests annually. Creates a talent marketplace for on-demand security expertise.

All offerings emphasize human expertise amplified by AI and a decade of proprietary exploit intelligence. [cobalt.io]

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available.
- **Key Metric**: Over 1,500 customers served; platform delivers 2.6x faster time to report and gets customers to remediation 50% faster than traditional approaches.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed in provided sources.
- **Growth Signals**: Fast-growing remote-first cybersecurity start-up; expanding globally with employees from 45+ nationalities; recognized as an award-winning “best workplace”; continuous product innovation in AI and automation. [cobalt.io/life][cobalt.io/about]

## Competitive Advantages
- **Human-Led, AI-Powered Pentesting**: Combines creative human testing (focusing on business logic abuse) with proprietary exploit intelligence AI to automate recon and isolate high-risk vulnerabilities faster.
- **Speed & Scale**: Start a pentest in 24 hours; 2.6x faster report turnaround; 50% faster remediation cycle.
- **Exclusive Talent Pool**: The Cobalt Core accepts only 5% of applicants, ensuring access to top-tier, vetted security experts.
- **Unified Platform**: Single pane of glass for managing findings, integrations with dev workflows, and continuous testing across the attack surface.

## Strategic Focus
- **Continuous Offensive Security**: Moving away from point-in-time testing to ongoing, proactive risk management.
- **AI Integration**: Leveraging over a decade of exploit data to continuously refine testing logic and improve automation.
- **Scaling the Community**: Expanding the Cobalt Core and platform to address global shortage of skilled security resources.
- **Customer Agility**: Empowering organizations to do more with less by integrating security testing into development cycles.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes “Innovate Relentlessly,” “Lead with Grit,” “Quality at Speed and Scale,” and “One Cobalt.” Fully remote, remote-first with flexible PTO.
- **Perks**: Competitive compensation + equity, medical/dental/life insurance (US), 401k matching, paid parental leave, monthly stipends for wellness, WFH office setup, WiFi, and learning & development.
- **Diversity**: 45+ nationalities; equal opportunity employer that values inclusion and diverse perspectives.
- **Team**: Work directly with experienced senior leaders in a rapidly growing PtaaS market; opportunity to “make your mark.” [cobalt.io/life][job-boards.greenhouse.io/cobaltio]

## Sources
1. [Cobalt Homepage](https://www.cobalt.io)
2. [Careers at Cobalt (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/cobaltio)
3. [About Cobalt](https://www.cobalt.io/about)
4. [Life at Cobalt](https://www.cobalt.io/life)
5. [Leadership Team](https://www.cobalt.io/team)

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