Director, Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead engineering teams focused on product development to meet the Stratus roadmap objectives.

• Integrate engineering and AI capabilities to deliver solutions that are dependent on customer needs.

• Take charge of engineering deliveries and oversee what is released.

• Guide PODs in creating solutions that customers recognize and depend on.

• Establish delivery schedules, remove obstacles, and uphold quality standards.

• Directly interact with fabrication-shop customers through product discussions and workflow-centric design reviews.

• Remain engaged when production issues affect customers.

• Convert real-world workflow challenges into lasting product solutions in collaboration with Product and users.

• Utilize engineering judgment for feature, architecture, and simplification choices.

• Collaborate with the CTO and engineering leadership on decisions regarding Azure, MongoDB Atlas, and agentic-surface platforms.

• Foster an AI-centric engineering culture across design, development, and deployment.

• Enhance CI/CD processes, code review practices, observability, and lessons learned from incidents.

• Work alongside Product, Data, and Customer Success for cross-functional delivery.

• Integrate customer and field insights into engineering practices.

• Report to the CTO and collaborate with Directors, Senior Directors, Product, and GTM leadership.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years in software engineering.

• At least 5 years of engineering leadership experience in a SaaS product company.

• Proven experience in building and delivering AI-enabled products that customers rely on in production.

• Experience in ensuring AI reliability in production environments.

• Background in making build-versus-buy decisions.

• Familiarity with cloud-native SaaS architecture.

• Preference for Azure experience.

• Proficient in C# or .NET.

• Experience with MongoDB or document databases is advantageous.

• Experience in a rapidly growing customer environment where poor releases had significant consequences.

• Track record of developing a team for greater impact while maintaining existing strengths.

• Experience in hiring at least one exceptional candidate and articulating the rationale for hiring decisions.

• Strong customer and product focus.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Ability to collaborate with distributed and cross-functional teams.

• Experience in MEP, fabrication, or construction technology is a strong advantage.

• Familiarity with Autodesk or similar tools is a plus.

• Exposure to manufacturing, supply chain, or field operations software is beneficial.

• Hands-on experience with LangGraph, MCP, or agentic orchestration frameworks is a bonus.

• Eligibility to work in the U.S. will be verified after hire through E-Verify.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive and competitive health benefits plan.

• Matching contributions to 401k plans.

• 20 days of annual paid time off (PTO).

• Primarily remote work opportunities.

• Occasional annual team onsite events.