Top Director Of Engineering Jobs

Lead and scale engineering teams to build AI-native platforms across IT, OT, networking, and cybersecurity. Drive delivery of distributed, scalable backend systems, establish engineering processes, embed LLM/ML into production, champion AI-assisted development practices, partner with executives on strategy, and mentor senior technical leaders. Hybrid role in Austin with two onsite days weekly.

Lead DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL: own strategy, architecture, reliability, scalability, and AI-native integration. Build hyperscaler-grade reliability, scale Advanced Edition for large workloads, partner across Product/GTM/SRE, and grow a high-performing global engineering organization.

Lead and scale a multi-functional platform engineering organization (SRE, Operations, Data & AI Platform, Database Engineering). Own the cloud platform and infrastructure-as-product, drive multi-quarter initiatives to improve developer velocity and reliability, solve scalability and system reliability problems, partner with product and engineering leaders, manage vendors and cost governance, and raise engineering quality and operational excellence.

Lead the Money Platform engineering organization to deliver reliable, secure systems for moving funds. Set technical direction, grow leaders and principal engineers, ensure operational excellence and correctness, ship platform capabilities with strong developer experience, and design for an agentic future while engaging as a technical peer to senior engineers and executives.

Lead the production infrastructure organization to define platform primitives (compute, storage, networking, observability), drive reliability (SLOs/SLIs, incident management, capacity planning), create golden paths and cost-effective frameworks, mentor and scale teams, collaborate cross-functionally on platform investments, and apply AI to improve infrastructure operations and developer productivity.

Lead two engineering teams owning real-time call delivery infrastructure and applied voice AI. Set technical roadmaps, manage and hire engineers, drive model-to-production work on EOU, VAD, AMD, STT accuracy and latency, collaborate with product and AI leadership, and unblock cross-functional challenges.

Lead engineering teams to build and ship the AI Control Tower platform: own roadmaps, drive 1.0-to-adoption, embed AI across development lifecycle, recruit and grow engineers, and align cross-functional partners to deliver scalable, cloud-native AI governance and observability for enterprise customers.

Lead and scale BuildOps' Data & AI engineering organization, owning data platform, pipelines, governance, ML/streaming infrastructure, operational discipline, and hiring to enable reliable AI/ML products and customer-facing data services.

The Director of Engineering will lead platform engineering strategy and teams, enhancing developer experience, driving AI integration, and establishing governance for development practices.

Lead the Pipeline team to own strategy and execution for MongoDB's end-to-end software delivery platform. Drive reliability, scalability, security, developer experience, CI/CD and release systems, telemetry, and organizational growth while partnering across engineering and product.

Lead customer launches, manage a team of engineers, define success metrics, and drive implementation excellence for AI-powered communication solutions.

Lead and manage an optical engineering team to develop high-performance optical systems for semiconductor equipment. Own complex system projects from specification through design, supplier collaboration, integration, qualification, troubleshooting, and feasibility studies. Drive R&D, vendor strategy, customer technical engagement, mentoring, alignment strategies, error budgets, and system-level requirements and risk management.

Lead a cross-functional engineering team to integrate 2K's game and publishing tech into AAA titles. Own technical strategy, mentor engineers, resolve high-stakes integrations, drive operating-model improvements, and champion AI-powered tooling to streamline partner integrations.

Lead and grow multiple software engineering teams to deliver full‑stack, highly available applications and microservices. Drive architecture, cloud deployments (AWS), engineering practices, scalability, resilience, and cross-team Agile delivery while mentoring engineers and encouraging technical innovation.

Lead and scale engineering teams to transform the network into an Intent-Based, Infrastructure-as-Code platform. Drive automation, AI integration, microservices, cloud deployments, and engineering practice maturity. Mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, improve resilience and scalability, and replace manual operations with intelligent network automation.

Lead and execute the Payments Platform vision: own strategy, architecture, and roadmap for payment processing, routing, settlement, reconciliation and partner integrations. Build and grow engineering managers and senior engineers, drive platform reliability, observability, security, and scalability, set OKRs, manage cross-functional delivery, and align technology with business, product, risk and compliance outcomes.

Lead cloud-based data engineering delivery for UHC HEDIS retrospective processing. Manage large teams of data engineers and SMEs, drive AI/GenAI adoption, ensure NCQA/compliance alignment, collaborate with product and business stakeholders, remove execution barriers, and evaluate emerging trends to inform scalable, quality-focused solutions.

Lead engineering operations for 2.5M sq ft across multiple campuses, overseeing MEPFP, BMS/EPMS, emergency power, 24/7 union staff, maintenance, capital planning, vendor management, incident response, and long-term infrastructure strategy to ensure mission-critical reliability.

Lead microelectronics engineering and 6-inch wafer foundry operations across design, fabrication, packaging, and production. Oversee strategy, budgets, KPIs, compliance, and continuous improvement while mentoring engineers and driving roadmap development, cost reduction, and on-time delivery for high-visibility defense programs.

Lead engineering governance, process modernization, and digital-engineering adoption across a 6,200+ engineer organization. Own process strategy, audit/compliance (CMMI, AS9100D, AS9145), metrics/reporting, lifecycle management, and talent development. Partner with cross-functional leaders to drive measurable adoption of best-in-class engineering practices and digital transformation.

Lead engineering for payments digital channels: set strategy and roadmap, drive cloud-native modernization (microservices, event-driven, Kubernetes), ensure availability/resiliency/compliance, partner cross-functionally, grow senior leaders, and adopt/ govern agentic AI-enabled SDLC automation to improve delivery and operational excellence.

Lead and scale a Database Performance Engineering organization to drive performance, scalability, capacity planning, benchmarking, observability, and automation across database, OS, storage, and distributed application environments. Partner with product and infrastructure teams, run large-scale performance investigations and testing, establish practices and KPIs, and translate production insights into long-term architectural and operational improvements.

Lead infrastructure engineering across cloud, on‑prem, and SaaS environments; set strategy, governance, and AI-assisted workflow standards; manage large cross‑functional teams, budgets, and SLAs; drive risk, security, compliance, automation, and scalable infrastructure solutions using Agile practices.

Lead cybersecurity engineering to embed supply chain integrity and DevSecOps across build, artifact, and deployment pipelines. Define end-to-end provenance, signing, attestation, and automated policy-as-code controls. Secure cloud-native platforms, container and IaC artifacts, and AI-assisted workflows. Partner with risk, infosec, and audit, report residual risk, and build and mentor a security engineering team and developer security champions.

Lead reliability, performance, and observability for multiple Vertafore products. Own SLIs/SLOs, incident response, error budget management, CI/CD and automation, and 24x7 on-call rotations. Manage managers and engineers, collaborate with Cloud Ops, Security, and Product to ensure scalable, highly available SaaS platforms.