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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