Director of Engineering - Infrastructure
Leads unification of observability, internal tools, and application frameworks to boost developer productivity. Drives high-impact projects, roadmaps, and execution on infrastructure including compute, data, and DevX for 1,000+ engineers. Requires 10+ YOE in engineering with 5+ in leadership.
About the job
What You'll Do
- Acting as a technical leader within the Engineering organization.
- Identifying and advocating for high impact projects that involve multiple stakeholders across the organization.
- Taking ambiguous technical and organizational problem statements, turning them into an actionable plan and then executing on it with the team.
- Executing and driving alignment against requirements involving complex and interdependent systems related to internal development platforms, the infrastructure which underpin them and the developer tools that support them.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in technical leadership/management roles
- Preferred experience in building out framework and infrastructure solutions used by internal developers in a fast-paced devops environment
- Preferred experience in building, and/or leading teams who have built, tooling, compute infrastructure and data infrastructure serving internal teams
- Bonus points for experience in developer tooling and reliability
- Preferred experience in our technology stack: Python, Django, Golang, React, MongoDB, Trino, Pinot, Kafka, Postgres, AWS
- Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment by identifying areas of impact and independently pursuing them
- A track record of influencing and enabling forward-thinking technology decisions across a wide organization
- Excellent ability to communicate complex technical ideas with clarity and precision in written and verbal modes
Skills
Python, Django, Go, React, MongoDB, Trino, Pinot, Kafka, Postgres, AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD
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