VP of Engineering
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OrbisSoftware engineering
Location: Remote - US; engineers work remotely across the United States and its territories, including Puerto Rico., across U.S. time zones, including the continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and other territoriesFull-TimeVp
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Job Details
- Experience
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading engineering organizations through other managers, with at least 3 years at the director level or above.
- Required Skills
- AWSGCPTypeScriptGoRustCI/CDDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 12+ years of software engineering experience.
- 5+ years leading engineering organizations through other managers, including at least 3 years at director level or above.
- Experience as an engineering leader at a small or early-stage company, including building structure as the company scales.
- Experience developing managers, building high-performing teams, making performance and staffing decisions, and retaining talent through growth.
- Success scaling engineering organizations, including building hiring pipelines and interview processes.
- Experience leading a fully remote engineering organization across multiple time zones, including schedules, core hours, meeting cadences, and on-call coverage.
- Hands-on background in cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, CI/CD, and DevSecOps.
- Production experience with at least one of Rust, Go, or TypeScript and at least one of AWS, GCP, or Cloudflare.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
- Ability to travel up to 25%.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the engineering leadership team, including directors and managers.
- Own workforce planning, hiring strategy, interview processes, and performance and staffing decisions.
- Define engineering working norms, career paths, recognition, and feedback loops.
- Set direction for engineering and represent the organization to executives, the board, and customers.
- Partner with product leadership to establish predictable delivery, balance priorities and capacity, and define performance metrics and operating rhythms.
- Work with the CTO to rationalize toolchains, development environments, and shared infrastructure across engineering platforms and cloud environments.
- Establish documentation standards, shared practices, onboarding, and training.
- Ensure engineering practices meet security, compliance, and reliability standards, including for constrained and disconnected deployments.
- Set collaboration hours, meeting cadences, and on-call rotations for a remote team across U.S. time zones and territories.
- Partner with business functions on budgets, headcount, vendors, and company-level planning.
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