Director of Engineering
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About the Role
Seeking a Director of Engineering to lead a global, fully remote engineering organization in a high-scale, data-intensive environment. You will shape engineering strategy, drive modernization including AI tool adoption, and oversee distributed teams.
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Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and scale a global, fully remote engineering organization including engineering managers and software engineers
- Define and optimize engineering organizational design, ensuring effective team structures and career progression paths
- Partner with product leadership to align engineering execution with product strategy
- Oversee architectural integrity, scalability, security, and performance of high volume distributed systems
- Balance technical debt reduction with feature delivery
- Establish and track engineering performance metrics (e.g., DORA, SPACE)
- Lead the adoption of AI powered engineering tools and automation across the SDLC
- Ensure strong compliance, data privacy, and security practices across all engineering processes
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience
- 5+ years in leadership roles managing engineering managers in SaaS, Ad Tech, or high scale distributed systems
- Proven experience scaling and leading large, fully remote, globally distributed engineering teams
- Strong understanding of cloud architecture, distributed systems, and scalable infrastructure design
- Demonstrated ability to make pragmatic technical trade offs
- Strong metrics driven mindset with experience using DORA or SPACE frameworks
- Experience driving engineering transformation initiatives including automation and process optimization
- Familiarity with AI assisted development tools
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
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Role Overview
- This is a pivotal leadership role responsible for shaping, scaling, and evolving a global engineering organization in a high scale, data intensive environment.
- The role combines strategic leadership with deep technical oversight, ensuring delivery of reliable, scalable, and high performance systems.
- You will lead engineering managers and distributed teams across a fully remote setup, building a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Accountabilities
- Lead, mentor, and scale a global, fully remote engineering organization, including engineering managers and software engineers.
- Define and optimize engineering organizational design, ensuring effective team structures, clear career progression paths, and strong succession planning.
- Partner closely with product leadership to align engineering execution with product strategy.
- Oversee architectural integrity, scalability, security, and performance of high volume distributed systems.
- Balance technical debt reduction with feature delivery, ensuring sustainable system evolution.
- Establish and track engineering performance metrics (e.g., DORA, SPACE) to identify bottlenecks and improve delivery efficiency.
- Lead the adoption of AI powered engineering tools and automation across the SDLC.
- Ensure strong compliance, data privacy, and security practices across all engineering processes.
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience, including at least 5+ years in leadership roles managing engineering managers in SaaS, Ad Tech, or high scale distributed systems.
- Proven experience scaling and leading large, fully remote, globally distributed engineering teams.
- Strong understanding of cloud architecture, distributed systems, and scalable infrastructure design.
- Demonstrated ability to make pragmatic technical trade offs between speed, scalability, and long term maintainability.
- Strong metrics driven mindset with hands on experience using frameworks such as DORA or SPACE.
- Experience driving engineering transformation initiatives, including automation and process optimization.
- Familiarity with AI assisted development tools and their application in engineering workflows.
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Benefits
- Fully remote work with global flexibility and autonomy over your schedule.
- Opportunity to lead and scale a global engineering organization at high impact and high scale.
- Continuous learning and professional development opportunities.
- High impact leadership role with direct influence on engineering strategy and product outcomes.
- Culture focused on ownership, continuous improvement, and innovation.
- Opportunity to drive AI adoption across engineering workflows.
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