Location: Remote (Anywhere in the world)
About Virtasant
Virtasant (www.virtasant.com) is a global leader in cloud cost optimization and technology services. We help organizations harness the full potential of the cloud while minimizing costs, improving performance, and embedding AI-driven automation into everything we build.
Role Overview
We are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the development of our industry-leading cloud optimization product. This role will oversee all aspects of engineering execution—managing teams, setting technical direction, driving backlog priorities, ensuring operational excellence, and embedding AI into both our engineering processes and product functionality.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on leader who thrives at the intersection of technology strategy and execution. You should be passionate about leveraging AI to maximize engineering productivity and innovation while delivering scalable, world-class solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and scale Virtasant’s cloud optimization engineering team across a globally distributed workforce.
- Define and drive the technical vision and roadmap for our cloud optimization product, providing hands-on guidance and support.
- Manage engineering work backlogs, prioritization, and delivery across multiple product areas.
- Oversee ongoing product operations, ensuring high reliability, performance, and support.
- Embed AI throughout engineering workflows to accelerate development, testing, and deployment.
- Drive the integration of AI-driven capabilities into our core cloud optimization solution.
- Partner with product management and other stakeholders to deliver customer-focused innovation.
- Establish best practices for software engineering, DevOps, and cloud-native development.
- Mentor and develop engineering leaders, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, with at least 5+ years in engineering leadership.
- Proven experience leading distributed, remote-first engineering teams.
- Strong background in cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern software development practices.
- Demonstrated success in delivering complex, large-scale products in production.
- Deep experience with AI-driven engineering practices (e.g., AI code generation, automated QA, intelligent monitoring).
- Experience embedding AI features into SaaS products strongly preferred.
- Strong technical judgment, with the ability to balance innovation and execution speed.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Why Join Virtasant?
- Play a pivotal role in shaping the future of cloud cost optimization and AI-driven engineering.
- Lead a highly skilled, globally distributed engineering team.
- Work fully remote with flexible collaboration across time zones.
- Join a fast-growing, mission-driven company dedicated to innovation and impact.
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What We Do
Virtasant is a fully-remote and globally distributed technology and business services company that brings the breadth and capability of more than 4,000 technology professionals in 130 countries. We started working in the public cloud in 2007, and over the last 13 years, our team has built or re-platformed over 200 applications, with over 600 million lines of code currently under management.
In this time, our team has developed proprietary software and methodologies that help us quickly and accurately identify opportunities to maximize the speed, scale and cost advantages that come with native cloud computing. Virtasant combines industry-leading cloud specialization with a deep bench of global experts across every aspect of the product lifecycle to deliver superior results to our clients. Virtasant offers services including cloud assessments and migrations, custom product development, information management, machine learning, remote team management, application modernization, full-lifecycle technology outsourcing, and more
