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Cellebrite’s (Nasdaq: CLBT) mission is to enable its global customers to protect and save lives by enhancing digital investigations and intelligence gathering to accelerate justice in communities around the world. Cellebrite’s AI-powered Digital Investigation Platform enables customers to lawfully access, collect, analyze and share digital evidence in legally sanctioned investigations while preserving data privacy. Thousands of public safety organizations, intelligence agencies and businesses rely on Cellebrite’s digital forensic and investigative solutions-available via cloud, on-premises and hybrid deployments-to close cases faster and safeguard communities. To learn more, visit us at www.cellebrite.com, https://investors.cellebrite.com/investors and find us on social media @Cellebrite

Position Overview:

We are seeking a strategic VP R&D to lead the Guardian Business Unit’s global engineering organization.

In this role, you will own and scale Cellebrite’s SaaS platform, driving architecture, reliability, scalability, and developer experience for mission-critical systems serving law enforcement and enterprise customers worldwide.

You will lead a large, multi-disciplinary organization of 140+ engineers and managers, define the long-term cloud and platform strategy on AWS, and play a central role in shaping Cellebrite’s next-generation, AI-powered SaaS evolution.

This is a high-impact leadership role requiring a combination of strategic vision, technical depth, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Own and scale the SaaS platform powering Cellebrite’s product portfolio, including end-to-end cloud architecture, infrastructure, and platform engineering
• Lead and grow a global organization of 140+ engineers and managers across applications, platform, research, DevOps/SecOps, DevEx, and SRE
• Define and execute a multi-year cloud and platform strategy aligned with business and product goals
• Drive engineering excellence across CI/CD, enabling fast, safe, and reliable software delivery at scale
• Champion adoption of AI coding agents and GenAI developer tooling to enhance engineering productivity, quality and velocity
• Own platform reliability and observability, including SLAs/SLOs, incident management, and production excellence
• Manage significant cloud infrastructure budgets and strategic vendor relationships, applying FinOps principles for efficiency and scale
• Partner closely with Product, Security, and R&D leadership to ensure platform readiness for future product and regulatory needs
• Contribute as a senior member of the R&D leadership forum, shaping engineering culture, strategy, and operational standards

• 15+ years of engineering experience, including 8+ years in senior leadership roles managing managers and large-scale organizations (140+ engineers)
• Deep experience building and operating large-scale SaaS platforms on AWS, across compute, storage, networking, containers (Kubernetes/EKS), serverless, and data services
• Proven track record of building and scaling CI/CD systems as a core engineering capability
• Strong cloud-native mindset, with expertise in scalability, resilience, observability, and infrastructure-as-code (e.g.,Terraform), GitOps, and platform engineering practices
• Experience managing large cloud budgets and applying FinOps methodologies
• Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to translate technical complexity into business impact
• Strong product mindset, treating internal platforms as products and optimizing developer experience
• Experience building and operating AI agents in production environments on AWS, including orchestration frameworks (e.g., Strands, LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI) - Advantage
• Hands-on experience or strategic leadership in adopting AI coding agents (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) across engineering organizations - Advantage