Executive Director, Engineering

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of delivery, execution, and results across various engineering teams.

• Lead and mentor engineering managers.

• Create a high-performing engineering organization through accountability, operational rhythms, talent development, and ongoing improvement.

• Collaborate with product, architecture, data, security, and business stakeholders on strategies and roadmaps.

• Oversee backend data services, APIs, pipelines, and data products.

• Drive technical and architectural decision-making alongside architects and senior engineers.

• Establish and enhance engineering processes for planning, estimation, prioritization, execution, dependencies, and releases.

• Communicate portfolio plans, risks, milestones, status updates, and outcomes.

• Advocate for software development best practices, code quality, test automation, observability, incident management, and operational readiness.

• Ensure production reliability through effective monitoring, logging, alerting, and response strategies.

• Maintain data quality, security, privacy, governance, and regulatory compliance.

• Collaborate on organizational planning, staffing, succession planning, and resource allocation.

• Guide leaders and teams through organizational transformations.

• Stay informed on industry trends and promote the adoption of beneficial emerging technologies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline; or equivalent practical experience.

• Over 10 years of experience in software engineering, encompassing backend and data engineering.

• More than 4 years of experience in engineering leadership, including managing engineering managers and leading multiple teams or functional areas.

• Proven experience in building and scaling high-performing engineering organizations, including recruitment, coaching, performance management, and leadership development.

• Experience in leading intricate technical programs across multiple teams.

• Proficiency in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js.

• Experience in designing and scaling data APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, and distributed architectures.

• Familiarity with data warehousing, data pipelines, data integration, and data product development.

• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL technologies like PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and DynamoDB.

• Experience with AWS, Git, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, Lambda, SQS, and SNS.

• Experience in establishing unit, integration, end-to-end, load, and security testing strategies.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

• Strong operational leadership skills, including incident management, reliability practices, and service ownership.

• Ability to balance strategic thinking with practical technical judgment and execution.

• Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time.

🏝️ Benefits

• Paid time off (including vacation, holidays, and sick leave).

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• 401(k) plan.

• Long-term incentive programs.

• Option for remote work.