Barracuda is a leading cybersecurity company providing complete protection against complex threats. Our platform protects email, data, applications, and networks with innovative solutions, and a managed XDR service, to strengthen cyber resilience. Hundreds of thousands of IT professionals and managed service providers worldwide trust us to protect and support them with solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use.
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Barracuda is looking for a Director of Engineering to lead our Email Archive portfolio—critical products that help organizations meet compliance, eDiscovery, and security needs at global scale. You’ll guide distributed teams building and operating systems that ingest, transform, and store over 50 petabytes of data in AWS and Azure, while driving modernization and cost efficiency.
Lead globally distributed teams through transformation and growth, fostering a healthy, high-performing, and connected culture.
• Partner with Product Management and UX to define and deliver roadmaps that improve customer experience and retention.
• Engage directly with customers on incidents and roadmap validation; Own architecture and operations for largescale data ingestion, indexing, and storage with strong compliance and auditability.
• Drive excellence in CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and progressive delivery.
• Leverage AI responsibly to enhance product capabilities and engineering workflows.
15+ years in software engineering, 8+ years in leadership roles (including managing managers).
• Proven success leading remote, distributed teams and partnering cross-functionally.
• Experience with compliance archiving & eDiscovery (journaling, legal hold, WORM storage).
• Expertise in AWS and/or Azure, multiregional deployments, and cost optimization.
• Hands on experience with largescale data systems (ETL, search/indexing, object storage).
• Internal mobility – there are opportunities for cross training and the ability to attain your next career step within Barracuda.
• Equity, in the form of non-qualifying options
• High-quality health benefits
• Retirement Plan with employer match
• Flexible Time Off and Paid Time Off benefits
• The anticipated on-target earnings range for this role is CAD 173,000 to CAD 288,000.
