Director of Production Engineering

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

📋 Description

• Recruit and develop a globally-distributed DevOps/SRE engineering team; oversee hiring, mentoring, and management of engineers.

• Take ownership of the reliability and infrastructure roadmap for the AWS-based production environment, which includes EKS, RDS, and associated AWS services.

• Direct the organization's security operations practice, encompassing vulnerability management, threat detection, incident response, and remediation.

• Establish and promote engineering OKRs focused on infrastructure reliability, automation, and security.

• Advocate for observability and alerting best practices, including automated alert triage and response procedures.

• Implement agentic AI infrastructure and AI-driven workflows within the SDLC and DevOps processes.

• Advance Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, and automation methodologies.

• Collaborate with engineering and IT teams to ensure alignment on infrastructure standards, access controls, tools, and compliance obligations.

• Uphold security controls, data protection, compliance, and readiness for audits.

• Lead and engage in the Incident Management on-call rotation.

• Offer technical guidance and thought leadership to the engineering team.

• Dedicate approximately 20-30% of your time to directly contributing to architecture, tooling, and incident response, while the remainder focuses on vision, roadmap, and cross-team execution.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8-12 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or production infrastructure roles, including experience in people management.

• Extensive hands-on experience managing production workloads on AWS, including EKS (Kubernetes), RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, S3, and other fundamental AWS services.

• Proven experience in security operations (SecOps), including vulnerability management, incident response, and addressing production security challenges.

• 5+ years of experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana.

• Strong proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation and CI/CD automation.

• Competent in at least one programming language, such as Go, Python, or Bash.

• Daily use of Git and test automation pipelines.

• Hands-on experience with Linux/Unix production platforms, including Amazon Linux, Ubuntu, or RHEL/CentOS.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally with engineering and IT teams to align on infrastructure, tools, and security standards.

• Proven track record in leading incident management and on-call practices for high-availability production systems.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required.

• A Master's degree is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• $0 monthly premium and various flexible medical, dental, and vision plans effective from the first day of employment.

• 401k plan.

• Discretionary Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays.

• Parental Leave.

• Equity.

• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement.

• Monthly Lunch on Legion.

• Bonus.

• Fully remote work.