# Senior Director, Software Engineering
**Company:** [Pindrop](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/pindrop)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $218K-$262K
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** AWS, GCP, Distributed Systems, Microservices, APIs, Cloud-Native Systems, Observability, Architecture, Engineering Metrics, SaaS
**Posted:** 2026-06-25
> Lead engineering strategy, people management, and delivery for Pindrop's real-time fraud detection platform. Own distributed systems architecture, team development, and cross-functional alignment in a remote-first environment.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Set the engineering strategy for your area of the Protect platform and turn long-term product and business goals into clear technical plans.
- Lead and develop engineering managers and senior engineers, creating strong teams with clear ownership, healthy operating rhythms, and meaningful growth paths.
- Deliver complex distributed systems predictably and at high quality, balancing speed, scalability, reliability, and long-term technical health.
- Partner closely with Product, Research, Security, and executive stakeholders to align roadmap priorities, technical investments, and customer outcomes.
- Raise the bar on architecture, observability, operational excellence, and developer productivity across your area.
- Use metrics and sound engineering judgment to improve delivery health, team effectiveness, and the resilience of systems running at scale.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of engineering experience, including meaningful people leadership in software, platform, or infrastructure environments.
- Proven experience owning and scaling distributed systems, APIs, or microservices in production, ideally in SaaS environments.
- Strong technical depth in cloud-native systems and modern engineering practices across AWS and/or GCP.
- A track record of improving execution through better engineering metrics, process discipline, and organizational design.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience in fraud prevention, authentication, voice biometrics, risk engines, or related security domains.
- Familiarity with data science infrastructure, machine learning, or generative AI in production.
- Experience leading remote or distributed engineering teams during periods of growth and change.

## Benefits
- Competitive compensation package, including RSUs for all employees.
- Remote-first environment.
- Regular team on-sites, company-wide events, and intentional gatherings.
- Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO).
- Generous health and welfare plans, including one employer-paid “employee-only” plan.
- Best-in-class Health Savings Account (HSA) employer contribution.
- Low-cost vision and dental plans.
- Paid Parental Leave (birth, adoptive & foster parents).
- One year of diaper delivery for new parents.
- Recurring monthly phone and internet allowance.
- Enhanced fertility and GLP-1 benefits.
- Annual Learning & Development stipend.
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