Define and drive the multi-year technical vision and architecture for large-scale product systems, ensuring designs are reliable, extensible, and capable of evolving with business needs
Identify and solve the most complex, cross-cutting engineering problems across multiple systems and abstraction layers, including issues that span organizational boundaries
Establish extensible technical foundations, coding standards, and architectural patterns that improve consistency and delivery velocity across engineering organizations
Lead cross-functional execution of org-wide technical initiatives, aligning stakeholders, managing dependencies, and driving outcomes against defined milestones and metrics
Develop and operationalize engineering excellence programs including reliability standards, performance guardrails, and quality frameworks adopted across teams
Deeply understand privacy, security, and integrity vulnerabilities relevant to product systems and build robust technical safeguards in partnership with compliance and policy teams
Mentor engineers across the organization by providing candid feedback, customized coaching, and technical guidance on the most challenging system and feature design problems
Communicate complex technical strategies and trade-offs clearly to audiences ranging from individual contributors to executive leadership, producing artifacts used as long-term references
Identify systemic issues and recurring failure patterns across the organization, developing invariants and architectural improvements that prevent entire classes of problems
Recruit and develop engineers with skills critical to the team's success, role-modeling technical and cultural standards that strengthen the broader engineering community
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
12+ years of experience designing, building, and scaling large-scale software systems serving high-traffic, production environments
12+ years of programming experience with demonstrated ability to solve complex, cross-system technical problems through direct implementation
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Experience leading multi-year technical roadmaps and cross-organizational engineering initiatives from vision through execution
Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams and functions through written proposals, architectural reviews, and stakeholder alignment
Experience mentoring engineers across an organization and driving engineering culture improvements through programs, standards, and direct coaching
Preferred Qualifications
Experience partnering with legal, policy, or compliance teams to design technical solutions that address privacy, security, or integrity requirements at scale
Track record of identifying and delivering step-change improvements to product systems through architectural rethinking or ground-up rebuilds
Experience defining and operationalizing reliability, performance, or quality frameworks adopted at an organizational or company-wide scale
Demonstrated ability to integrate AI-assisted development practices and agent-based workflows to drive measurable engineering productivity improvements