- Lead and scale a distributed engineering organization across core database infrastructure, cloud platform, and developer experience
- Own hiring, culture, and team design for the engineering organization
- Partner with the leadership team on product roadmap and architectural decisions
- Translate company strategy into executable engineering plans
- Drive reliability, performance, and velocity across Qdrant's core engine, Qdrant Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Cloud Inference, and Qdrant Edge
- Establish engineering excellence: code quality standards, incident response, observability, and operational rhythm
- Work closely with Product, Developer Relations, and Customer Success to ensure engineering efforts are aligned with community and enterprise customer needs
- Define and own the engineering hiring plan to meet aggressive growth targets, with a focus on Rust, distributed systems, and ML infrastructure talent
- Champion a culture of rigor, ownership, and craft
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