Senior Director, Software Engineering

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

📋 Description

• Oversee several engineering teams that focus on identity and access management, shared services, runtime and infrastructure platforms, observability, reliability engineering, and core architectural patterns.

• Establish the engineering vision, synchronize roadmaps, influence architectural decisions, and guarantee technical sustainability.

• Direct the MarketPlace Engineering strategy and roadmap to align with business outcomes and product requirements.

• Collaborate with Product to provide scalable platform capabilities and set solid architectural foundations.

• Prioritize platform initiatives based on customer impact, risk mitigation, cost-effectiveness, and developer efficiency.

• Lead the execution across various teams and programs ensuring predictable delivery, high quality, and quantifiable results.

• Develop disciplined software engineering practices that encompass planning, requirements, architecture, and release management.

• Ensure the provision of high-quality platform APIs, service agreements, backward compatibility, and versioning methods.

• Take ownership of platform-wide reliability metrics including availability, latency, error rates, and resilience.

• Collaborate with SRE/CloudOps on incident management, postmortems, runbooks, and reliability protocols.

• Maintain security-by-default, ensure compliance alignment, and uphold governance standards.

• Advocate for an enhanced internal developer experience through self-service infrastructure, CI/CD modernization, test automation, tooling, documentation, and platform abstractions.

• Steer architectural direction across service boundaries, data patterns, eventing, multi-tenancy, and consistency.

• Manage technical debt and facilitate modernization efforts.

• Establish and uphold observability, security, architectural, and technology standards.

• Guide, mentor, and develop Engineering Directors, Engineering Managers, Staff+ Engineers, and technical leaders.

• Formulate a talent strategy that includes hiring, onboarding, retention, performance management, and succession planning.

• Collaborate with Product, Quality, UX/Design, Customer Success, and Support teams.

• Update executives and stakeholders on roadmap status, risks, trade-offs, and technical strategies.

⛳️ Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering.

• 8+ years of experience leading multi-team engineering organizations.

• Preferably experienced in the CPM/ERM industry.

• Proven success in leading platform, infrastructure, or foundational architecture teams within a modern SaaS/product company.

• Strong grasp of scalable distributed systems, cloud platforms, service design, and platform operating models.

• Experience in promoting engineering excellence across delivery, quality, reliability, security, and developer productivity.

• Demonstrated ability to recruit and develop high-performing engineering leaders and teams.

• Excellent stakeholder management capabilities.

• Familiarity with finance, enterprise SaaS, or heavily regulated domains such as SOX, SOC 2, FedRAMP, or GDPR.

• Prior experience with OneStream or financial CPM.

• Experience in developing internal developer platforms or leading large-scale platform modernization projects.

• Knowledge of multi-tenant architecture and enterprise identity patterns.

• Experience with high-availability systems and global-scale operations.

• Strong technical judgment and practical decision-making skills.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Vision insurance.

• Medical insurance.

• Life insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• 401(k).

• Short- and long-term disability.

• Vacation time.

• Paid holidays.

• Professional development opportunities.

• Retirement plan.

• Various training opportunities.

• Transparency regarding corporate structure, salary, and benefits.

• Diverse project work.

• Strong company culture and camaraderie.