Scaling Cybersecurity for Archipelo with speed and quality
Archipelo is a cybersecurity company building a Developer Security Posture Management platform focused on protecting developer environments and the software supply chain. As the product matured, the company needed to scale its engineering team with senior, security-aware engineers—fast, but without compromising quality or security standards. OnHires partnered with Archipelo to design and execute a structured hiring program across senior engineering roles, delivering predictable speed and consistent hiring signals.
Client:
Archipelo
Industry:
Cybersecurity
Country:
North America
Service:
Executive Search
Background
Archipelo engaged OnHires to support rapid team expansion across core engineering roles. The challenge was sourcing senior engineers with strong full-stack and interface expertise, combined with security-first thinking and experience working in developer tooling environments.We owned the full hiring lifecycle—from calibration and sourcing to interviews, offers, and onboarding—while aligning stakeholders around clear evaluation criteria.
Challenges
Hiring senior engineers with cybersecurity domain exposure is highly competitive. Archipelo needed to fill multiple roles in parallel while maintaining consistent technical standards, fast feedback cycles, and a strong candidate experience—all within a distributed hiring setup.
Scarcity of senior cybersecurity-aware engineers
Highly competitive engineering market
Multiple parallel engineering roles
Distributed hiring decision-making
Need for clear, security-focused hiring signals
Solution
We implemented a role-calibrated hiring framework with standardized scorecards, structured interviews, and weekly hiring operations. This ensured fast iteration, consistent evaluation, and reduced friction across all stages of the hiring funnel.
Targeted market mapping and senior-level sourcing
Security-aware role calibration and scorecards
Standardized technical and interface interviews
Weekly hiring ops and fast feedback loops
Offer negotiation and onboarding coordination
Results
The program delivered measurable speed improvements while maintaining high technical and security standards across all hires.
45% faster time-to-hire
4 senior engineers hired
Improved first-round technical pass rates
Reduced late-stage interview drop-offs
Clearer security and architecture signals
Consistent candidate experience
Upfront role calibration reduced misalignment between interview stages and eliminated re-evaluation loops late in the process.
Predictable hiring outcomes
Stronger early technical signals
Faster stakeholder alignment
Reduced rework
Predictable hiring outcomes
Weekly hiring operations kept momentum high across all roles, allowing Archipelo to close senior engineering positions without slowing product delivery.
“OnHires helped us scale our engineering team with speed and structure. Their ability to calibrate roles upfront and run disciplined hiring ops made a real difference.”
CEO
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