Director of Engineering - Platform Engineering

At JFrog, we’re reinventing DevOps to help the world’s greatest companies innovate -- and we want you along for the ride. This is a special place with a unique combination of brilliance, spirit, and just all-around great people. Here, if you’re willing to do more, your career can take off. And since software plays a central role in everyone’s lives, you’ll be part of an important mission. Thousands of customers, including the majority of the Fortune 100, trust JFrog to manage, accelerate, and secure their software delivery from code to production -- a concept we call “liquid software.” Wouldn't it be amazing if you could join us on our journey?

We are seeking a visionary Director of Engineering with a strong product mindset to lead the strategy, development, and scaling of our internal platform for Engineering, and our cloud infrastructure capabilities for SaaS customers. As a Director of Engineering, you will lead teams working on two major areas: a developer-centric platform that provides the tools, automation, and infrastructure needed to seamlessly develop, deploy, and operate services in production, and cloud infrastructure capabilities for SaaS customers, including customer-facing infrastructure and management features that enhance integration, security, and reliability, ensuring a robust experience for JFrog’s SaaS customers.

As a Director of Engineering at JFrog, you will... 

• Define and drive the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the internal platform for Engineering, ensuring alignment with SaaS business goals.
• Build, lead, and mentor multiple cross-functional teams of developers and DevOps to deliver a scalable and reliable platform.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement within the engineering organization.
• Architect and deliver a self-service, developer-centric platform that simplifies development, SaaS management and production operations.
• Provide observability solutions to improve system reliability and visibility of our SaaS products and operations.
• Partner with engineering leaders, product teams, and business stakeholders to ensure platform capabilities align with SaaS growth and reliability goals.
• Stay ahead of industry trends in Platform Engineering, DevOps, and cloud-native technologies to continuously evolve the platform.

To be a Director of Engineering at JFrog, you need... 

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and/or DevOps, with at least 5 years in leadership roles managing multiple R&D and DevOps teams
• Proven track record of delivering scalable platform engineering solutions in complex environments or highly technical product ecosystems
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
• Experience working in Agile or DevOps-focused organizations
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Passion for empowering developers and enabling productivity through platform engineering
• Experience with multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid cloud architectures
• Proficiency in Software Development: strong experience in building and managing scalable systems using languages such as Go, Python, Java, or Node.js