Sr Director, Software Engineering
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United StatesFull-TimeDirector
Salary160,200 - 425,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 11+ years of experience in software engineering or related technical disciplines, with strong hands-on development experience in modern programming languages such as Java, C#, Python, Go, JavaScript, or similar. 5+ years of people management experience, including managing managers and senior technical teams in large-scale environments.
- Required Skills
- PythonJavaJavascriptC#GoDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 11+ years of experience in software engineering or related technical disciplines, with strong hands-on development experience in modern programming languages such as Java, C#, Python, Go, JavaScript, or similar.
- 5+ years of people management experience, including managing managers and senior technical teams in large-scale environments.
- Proven experience defining and executing engineering strategy and roadmaps in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Strong track record of leading complex, large-scale technical initiatives in high-growth or fast-moving organizations.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, platform reliability, scalability, and production operations.
- Demonstrated ability to balance technical depth with leadership, communication, and organizational influence.
- Experience building and scaling high-performing engineering teams in complex or ambiguous environments.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to drive clarity, alignment, and execution across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Preferred: experience with observability platforms, infrastructure reliability, or high-scale distributed systems performance (autoscaling, load balancing, traffic management).
Responsibilities
- Lead and scale globally distributed engineering teams, including managers and engineers, while driving technical vision, execution, and organizational alignment.
- Define and execute engineering strategy for platform reliability, observability, production operations, and foundational developer experience systems.
- Drive architectural excellence across services, ensuring scalable, secure, and resilient systems that support high-availability environments.
- Oversee delivery of critical platform capabilities such as monitoring, observability, feature flagging, experimentation frameworks, and production safety systems.
- Partner with product, engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders to align technical execution with business priorities and long-term goals.
- Ensure teams deliver iterative improvements, balancing speed of delivery with system stability and future scalability.
- Remove execution blockers, improve operational clarity, and drive prioritization across multiple engineering initiatives.
- Build and foster a high-performing engineering culture focused on accountability, collaboration, innovation, and technical excellence.
- Lead hiring, talent development, and organizational scaling efforts across distributed teams.
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