Director, Engineering

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. Run and own the product engineering organization end to end, including architecture, delivery, and engineering roadmap .

Posted 9/22/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLeadWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in leading engineering organizations, focusing on architecture, delivery, and effective AI adoption. Proven ability to enhance engineering efficiency through measurable metrics and strategic team management.

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12+ Years In Software Engineering5+ Years Leading Engineering TeamsExperience Instrumenting DORA MetricsHands-On AI-Assisted EngineeringExperience Delivering Complex Software

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Hard Skills

DORA MetricsAutomated TestingTrunk-Based DeliveryFeature FlagsObservabilityPerlPHPAPI GatewaysLinuxStatic Analysis

Soft Skills

Coaching Engineering ManagersJudgment In AI-Native Engineering

Tools & Technologies

StripeCPanelInterWorxWordPressWooCommerceMagentoShopwareVMwareNutanix

Industry Keywords

High-Availability Service BusinessManaged HostingSoftware Supply-Chain SecurityIncident CommandSecrets Hygiene

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudLinuxMagentoPerlPHPSDLCVMwareWordPress

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Run and own the product engineering organization end to end, including architecture, delivery, and engineering roadmap
Build and enable an engineering organization that ships quickly and reliably with effective AI adoption
Align engineering work with business priorities
Own architecture design, delivery, and engineering roadmaps
Build the partnership with Product, shape commitments, and deliver them
Run delivery on monthly cycles with explicit cut lines
Scope, design, and deliver demonstrable value each month
Design team boundaries so teams can complete work without waiting on other teams
Establish one accountable Engineering Manager per team
Hire, develop, and calibrate engineering managers
Own the hiring bar and assess readiness to run teams
Coach engineering managers to lead rather than code

Requirements

What you’ll need

12+ years in software engineering
5+ years leading engineering teams
Experience leading managers
Evidence of making an engineering organization measurably faster
Experience instrumenting DORA metrics or an equivalent, with documented before-and-after results
Hands-on AI-assisted engineering at organizational scale with quantifiable impact
Experience with agentic tooling, personal harnesses, shared skills, specifications, and review gates
Experience redesigning team and work organization, including boundaries, ownership, cadence, and implementation outcomes
Experience delivering and modernizing complex software through multiple teams
Experience reassessing scope or dates with senior stakeholders
Ability to review designs, read code changes, and hold defensible technical positions
Experience owning a hiring plan and maintaining a hiring bar
Experience running software in production with accountability for availability
Experience leading remote teams across time zones, including vendor squads
Experience in managed hosting, cloud, or another high-availability service business
Judgment in AI-native engineering, delivery systems, long-lived legacy systems, revenue-bearing systems, hosting platforms, and security in an AI-assisted SDLC
Knowledge of DORA metrics, automated testing and coverage gating, trunk-based delivery, feature flags, observability, service levels, incident command, Perl, PHP, API gateways, identity issuers, event buses, billing and payments, Stripe, cPanel, InterWorx, WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, Shopware, Linux, VMware, Nutanix, secrets hygiene, push protection, static analysis, software supply-chain security, and prompt-injection risks

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, military status, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic
At-will employment