Top Remote Engineering Director Jobs

Leads GitLab’s Database Excellence organization, setting strategy for PostgreSQL and other application datastores. Owns database reliability, capacity, availability, sustainability, infrastructure costs, and platform standardization. Manages three Engineering Managers, develops technical leaders, oversees hiring and organization design, establishes objectives and KPIs, manages budgets, partners cross-functionally on platform investments, and serves as an escalation point for database incidents and operational processes.

Leads the engineering organization responsible for GitLab Dedicated, a single-tenant enterprise SaaS platform. Owns strategy, roadmap, reliability, compliance, infrastructure investments, customer migrations, and enterprise-grade SLAs. Oversees distributed engineering managers and teams across orchestration, resilience, control-plane APIs, public-sector platforms, FedRAMP readiness, AWS GovCloud, and migration tooling. Partners with executives, Product, Security, and Support while scaling the organization, improving operational efficiency, and incorporating AI-enabled engineering workflows.

Leads engineering operations across Hilton’s managed hotels in the Americas West region. Provides guidance on facility issues, inspections, compliance, capital planning, new openings, transitions, vendor management, and sustainability initiatives. Partners with hotel and corporate leaders, owners, contractors, and suppliers to improve facility performance, maintain brand standards, and execute regional engineering assessments and capital projects. Requires extensive hotel engineering, facilities management, and regional property operations experience, with travel up to 75%.

Leads the US SLED Sales Engineering organization by recruiting and mentoring managers and technical contributors, owning the technical sales motion, scaling sales engineering processes, developing account strategies, and serving as a technical executive sponsor for strategic customers and partners. The role requires deep network security expertise, multi-line management experience, customer-facing leadership, AI fluency, and travel of up to 40%.

Leads Statara’s Data Products & Engineering department, setting technical direction, managing teams, and overseeing Snowflake-based data infrastructure. Shapes scalable adtech and customer data solutions, supports pre-sales and client discussions, guides architecture and validation, and aligns Product, Data Science, Engineering, and Business Development. The role balances platform reliability, data governance, product roadmaps, commercial opportunities, and the conversion of custom solutions into repeatable data products.

Leads Samsara’s GTM AI Engineering team, building production AI agents, copilots, workflow automations, predictive models, and evaluation systems. Owns the shared AI platform, architecture, governance, observability, model routing, cost controls, and CRM intelligence. Partners with Sales, Customer Success, Support, Product, and Engineering to drive adoption and measurable business impact. This hands-on director role involves coding and prototyping approximately 70% of the time while hiring, developing, and guiding the engineering team.

Leads cross-cutting engineering initiatives across eight product squads, including platform modernization, authentication, dependency health, and security. Manages and grows Staff Engineers, prioritizes shared technical work, evaluates tradeoffs, and influences R&D planning. Owns Ellevation’s security practice and relationship with the parent company’s central security organization, coordinating compliance, incident response, scanning, remediation, reporting, and security KPIs. Requires strong software engineering leadership, modern web and cloud expertise, security experience, and executive communication skills.

Leads globally distributed engineering teams developing and sustaining commercial video solutions. Owns engineering strategy, technical direction, delivery, quality, modernization, budgets, staffing, and customer issue resolution. Partners with product, cloud, architecture, cybersecurity, quality, sales, and support teams to advance hybrid and cloud-connected video capabilities, streaming, storage, interoperability, AI analytics, automation, security, and software reliability.

Leads and scales Step’s engineering organization, technical strategy, architecture, execution, and development practices. Partners with executive and cross-functional leaders to deliver reliable, secure, customer-facing financial products. Responsibilities include managing engineering managers and senior engineers, recruiting and retaining talent, improving processes, removing organizational and technical bottlenecks, balancing product delivery with platform investments, and supporting scalable distributed systems.

Leads Oura’s Women’s Health software engineering organization, overseeing managers and technical leaders while partnering across Product, Design, Science, Clinical, Regulatory, and Data Science. Drives high-impact consumer software delivery, organizational transformation, engineering strategy, talent development, and AI-native development workflows. The role requires strong technical and product judgment across architecture, data, quality, reliability, privacy, and speed, with responsibility for building a high-performing organization and trusted health experiences.

Leads engineering teams delivering secure, reliable software for U.S. defense operators. Responsibilities include hiring and developing engineers, guiding architecture and technology choices, owning full delivery lifecycles, driving engineering excellence, adopting AI-assisted development and AI-powered capabilities, removing cross-team obstacles, partnering with product and customers, and building a strong engineering culture. The role requires significant software engineering depth, Principal or Architect-level experience, people leadership, modern cloud-native practices, and AI fluency.

Leads engineering strategy, teams, and delivery for web application and AI attack capabilities in a cybersecurity SaaS platform. Oversees application discovery, crawling, browser automation, authentication testing, AI/LLM security, attack automation, production reliability, roadmap execution, organizational development, hiring, and cross-functional collaboration. Establishes quality, observability, testing, and operational standards while translating offensive security research into dependable customer-facing products.

Leads Deepgram’s GTM Engineering function, owning CRM, CPQ, forecasting, billing, data, integrations, automation, and internal tooling. Translates commercial needs into scalable systems and AI-powered workflows, establishes engineering standards, connects usage and revenue data, and partners with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Data teams. This player-coach role designs, codes, tests, ships production systems, and develops a small team while prioritizing automation and operational leverage.

Lead engineering for Parento’s leave management, claims, employer and employee portals, internal tools, integrations, and databases. Build front-end mobile and web architecture, back-end applications, APIs, and responsive experiences while partnering with product, UX/UI, customers, and the CEO. Manage the engineering team, establish development processes, improve operational scalability, and directly contribute to programming and technical strategy.

Leads technical pre-sales and solution design for hyperscale and enterprise data center customers. Translates customer requirements into scalable infrastructure solutions, proposals, cost estimates, bills of materials, and scopes of work. Partners with Sales, Operations, Design, Construction, Finance, suppliers, and clients to ensure deliverable commitments. Establishes solution engineering processes, supports RFP responses and business reviews, and represents Riot at customer sites and industry events.

Leads multiple software engineering teams and defines enterprise technology strategy, architecture standards, and platform roadmaps. Partners with product and executive leaders to deliver scalable full-stack solutions, improve engineering practices, and ensure system resilience. Responsibilities include talent development, succession planning, architectural governance, Agile delivery, AWS deployments, and innovation involving distributed systems, machine learning, and agentic AI tools.

Leads Forward Deployed Engineering teams delivering technical outcomes for major government, defense, and manufacturing programs. Owns technical roadmaps, product scope, architecture, production delivery, executive customer relationships, and integration of program learnings into Hadrian’s platform. Builds and scales multidisciplinary teams, hires engineers and product leaders, makes tradeoffs involving scope, schedule, cost, quality, and platform leverage, and remains hands-on in early-stage development and technical reviews.

Lead the technical strategy and multi-year roadmap for Data Labs, overseeing AI benchmarking systems, data pipelines, and reinforcement-learning environments. Manage engineering managers, forward-deployed engineers, and senior individual contributors while partnering with research, product, commercial, and executive teams. Guide platform investment, evaluation methodology, market positioning, client engagement, organizational growth, and architectural decisions supporting AI training and deployment.

Lead Statara’s Data Products & Engineering function, owning Snowflake-based data infrastructure reliability and evolution, solution architecture for client engagements, pre-sales technical support, cross-functional alignment, and team leadership to deliver scalable data and analytics solutions.

Leads an eight-person analytics engineering team and sets strategy for trusted semantic models, governed data, enterprise BI, AI-powered data access, and production data applications. Oversees data modeling, evaluation datasets, telemetry, LLM routing, governance, security, and self-service capabilities. Partners cross-functionally to establish engineering standards, roadmaps, and measurable business impact while hiring, coaching, and developing team members.

The Director of Field Sales Engineering leads a team focused on incubating new products, driving adoption, and ensuring cross-functional collaboration to deliver technical value to customers.

Leads a 60-person engineering organization, managing seven engineering managers and owning delivery, staffing, organizational health, manager development, operating strategy, technical roadmap, and AI adoption. Establishes engineering KPIs using Linear, DORA, and reliability metrics; improves delivery predictability and system reliability; guides architecture and capacity allocation; and ships production AI or agentic initiatives with standards for security, cost, observability, and reliability.

Leads enterprise AI engineering strategy and multi-team delivery of scalable, responsible AI systems. Oversees foundation model training, LLM inference, similarity search, guardrails, evaluation, governance, observability, and production optimization. Establishes responsible AI standards, makes technology decisions, develops long-term platform roadmaps, partners with research and risk teams, and attracts and mentors engineering talent.

Leads approximately 35 engineers across data engineering, integration engineering, and integration support. Owns delivery predictability, manager development, operational reliability, SLA performance, data platform modernization, integration scalability, and organizational clarity. Partners with product, data science, commercial, and delivery teams while overseeing healthcare integrations with EHR systems, enterprise data infrastructure, incident management, and client-facing reliability commitments.

Leads platform engineering across learner and enterprise products, setting architecture direction, integrating AI and data capabilities, managing engineering managers and teams, and improving quality, reliability, security, accessibility, and delivery. Partners with product, design, IT, cloud operations, sales, and executives on strategy, planning, budgets, and enterprise SaaS outcomes.