SVP, Engineering

Executive Leadership: 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in software engineering, with at least 7+ years operating at the VP, SVP, or CTO level, preferably in a B2B enterprise software or platform company. Demonstrated experience fostering a product-led culture and driving commercial results through engineering excellence.

Business & Strategic Acumen: Proven ability to manage large departmental budgets, optimize engineering spend, and translate complex technical decisions into clear business value for executive-level stakeholders.

Distributed Systems Expertise: Deep understanding of complex architectures, concurrent, distributed systems, high-performance compute, and real-time data architectures.

Open Source Software Expertise: Excel at balancing open-source community expectations with enterprise requirements, maintaining rigorous public API discipline, documentation standards, and governance practices. Experience nurturing a global developer and operator community—across polyglot clients, cloud-native deployments, and hybrid environments.

Global Team Management: Proven track record of successfully scaling and leading a geographically distributed, international engineering organisation of significant size.

Technical Depth: A strong foundation in the core technologies relevant to the Hazelcast platform including Java, concurrency, networking, data streaming, SQL, distributed data stores, data grids. Ability to engage deeply with Principal Engineers and Architects on complex technical designs.

Agile and Delivery: Expertise in modern agile methodologies and continuous delivery pipelines, focused on delivering product capabilities rapidly, reliably, and at scale.

Customer-Centric/Team Aligner: Comfortable working backward from the customer and working in an “open-kitchen,” GTM aligned environment.

Strategic Visionary & Entrepreneurial Spirit: The ability to look ahead to anticipate technological shifts, while approaching the engineering function with the agility of a startup to constantly innovate and improve.

Executive Communication: Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills, capable of communicating complex technical strategy to both internal teams (engineering, product) and external stakeholders (C-level customers, analysts, board).

Influence: Proven ability to influence across organizational boundaries, driving alignment between Product, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing at the highest levels.

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline (Master’s or equivalent advanced degree preferred).