Director, Engineering - Platform

Responsibilities

• Deliver performant, scalable products iteratively, helping teams balance incremental customer value delivery with long-term product evolution
• Drive the technical roadmap and best practices for the product platform to enable scalability for rapid growth and increased user demand
• Innovate new uses for AI development tooling and tune current use to be more efficient over time
• Attract, recruit, and retain top engineering talent
• Hire and coach engineering managers to build and enable great teams
• Set clear expectations with leaders, provide regular feedback, and conduct regular performance conversations to foster a high-performing engineering team
• Clearly measure engineering performance to make necessary adjustments to team structure and/or processes to increase throughput and efficiency
• Identify opportunities and implement improvements to both the product and engineering practices and processes to optimize efficiency, quality, and time-to-market
• Partner with other engineering leaders, product leaders, and architects to ensure teams and technology are in sync and meet customer needs
• Collaborate with Architecture, Product Management, and Threat Operations teams to integrate their expertise and needs into products

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in engineering leadership building SaaS products in a modern SaaS environment
• 5+ years of experience at the director level or higher
• Hands-on experience with Claude Code or similar AI development tools
• Experience and knowledge of best practices for scalable delivery, core platform systems, site reliability engineering, and developer experience
• Experience developing, evolving, and maintaining high-volume, scalable solutions
• Deep understanding of organizing engineering teams to deliver customer value iteratively
• Skilled at hiring, building teams, leading, and coaching managers, and performance management
• Demonstrated success working with architecture and product management leaders to develop and execute a shared product and technical vision
• Experience in a fully remote environment

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with AI development tooling

Compensation & Benefits

• $240,000 to $300,000 base with bonus and equity
• 100% remote work environment
• Generous paid time off policy, including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans
• 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution
• Life and Disability insurance plans
• Stock options for all full-time employees
• One-time $500 reimbursement for building/upgrading home office
• Annual allowance for education and professional development assistance
• $75 USD/month digital reimbursement
• Access to the BetterUp platform for coaching, personal, and professional growth