Director, Software Engineering
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Remote-first environmentFull-TimeDirector
Salary$218,000 — $262,000 USD
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years of engineering experience
- Required Skills
- AWSArtificial IntelligenceGCPRESTful APIsMicroservicesSaaSDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 8+ years of engineering experience, including meaningful people leadership in software, platform, or infrastructure environments.
- Proven experience owning and scaling distributed systems, APIs, or microservices in production, ideally in SaaS environments.
- Strong technical depth in cloud-native systems and modern engineering practices across AWS and/or GCP.
- A track record of improving execution through better engineering metrics, process discipline, and organizational design.
- Strategically minded with the ability to turn complex business and technical goals into practical, executable plans.
- Relationship-driven leadership style with experience building trust across cross-functional teams.
- Technically credible and AI-fluent, with the judgment to guide architectural decisions.
Responsibilities
- Set the engineering strategy for the Protect platform and turn long-term product and business goals into clear technical plans.
- Lead and develop engineering managers and senior engineers, creating strong teams with clear ownership, healthy operating rhythms, and meaningful growth paths.
- Deliver complex distributed systems predictably and at high quality, balancing speed, scalability, reliability, and long-term technical health.
- Partner closely with Product, Research, Security, and executive stakeholders to align roadmap priorities, technical investments, and customer outcomes.
- Raise the bar on architecture, observability, operational excellence, and developer productivity across your area.
- Use metrics and sound engineering judgment to improve delivery health, team effectiveness, and the resilience of systems running at scale.
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