Director, Engineering - Digital Experience Monitoring
Leads engineering across Digital Experience Monitoring product areas, managing 50–60 engineers through Engineering Managers while shaping product strategy and driving AI adoption. Requires experience managing managers, large-scale data-intensive systems, and full-stack or frontend-adjacent products.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own engineering for one or more Digital Experience Monitoring product areas, with scope calibrated to your background and strengths.
- Manage 50–60 engineers through a layer of Engineering Managers.
- Shape the roadmap alongside product leadership by challenging, iterating on, and authoring strategy.
- Drive AI adoption across engineering tooling, workflows, product features, and team practices.
- Navigate cross-team dependencies across DEM, APM, Core Platform, AI Platform, and Data Science.
- Build and retain engineering talent in Paris.
- Mentor Engineering Managers toward Director readiness.
- Participate in the on-call rotation.
Requirements
- Direct experience managing Engineering Managers; this is a manager-of-managers role.
- Deep integration of AI into leadership and engineering practices.
- Track record of shaping product decisions, not only executing specifications.
- Experience with large-scale, event-driven, or data-intensive backend systems, such as ingestion pipelines, high-throughput APIs, or time-series/event data at scale.
- Full-stack or frontend-adjacent experience, ideally in SDK-heavy, browser-facing, or mobile-facing products.
- Comfortable operating in English in a cross-Atlantic organization.
- Based in Paris or open to relocating there; French is not required.
Benefits
- New-hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program.
- Inclusive company culture and access to Community Guilds.
- Access to Inclusion Talks.
- Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+.
- Competitive global benefits, which may vary by country of employment and employment type.
Skills
Artificial Intelligence, Real User Monitoring, Product Analytics, Synthetic Monitoring, Feature Flags, Event-Driven Systems, Backend Systems, Ingestion Pipelines, High-Throughput Apis, Time-Series Data, Full-Stack Development, Frontend Development, Software Development Kits, Apm, Data Science
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