Top Remote Engineering Director Jobs

Leads Akamai’s global Platform IAM engineering organization, overseeing managers, software engineers, and architects. Sets technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for scalable, resilient, low-latency identity and authorization systems. Ensures software development quality, safety, and performance while partnering across teams to convert business goals into technical milestones. Coaches and grows a distributed engineering organization and drives delivery of customer-facing IAM platforms.

Leads the ISSI platform engineering organization, owning strategy, execution, budgets, staffing, roadmaps, technical standards, and delivery across multiple teams. Manages engineering leaders, individual contributors, and offshore vendors while partnering with executives on priorities and outcomes. Oversees scalable, secure software delivery, architecture governance, hiring, performance management, process improvement, and adoption of emerging technologies including generative AI.

Leads the strategy, architecture, development, and operations of Temporal’s large-scale, multi-tenant compute platform. Builds and manages a high-ownership engineering team, drives roadmap execution, reliability, incident response, capacity planning, fleet utilization, cost efficiency, and customer alignment. Guides distributed-systems decisions involving workload isolation, security, scheduling, resource management, performance, virtualization, serverless infrastructure, and future accelerated GPU compute.

Leads a 12-person application security practice conducting code audits, vulnerability research, and secure design reviews. Oversees technical delivery, client relationships, project staffing, utilization, profitability, recruiting, and team development. Provides hands-on technical direction across source-code security work, determines investments in tooling and methodologies, and integrates AI-assisted auditing and research into team workflows. The role also owns practice P&L and supports engineers’ conference, publication, and open-source contributions.

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.

Lead the MLOps engineering team and roadmap supporting large-scale machine learning training and inference. Oversee cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, distributed systems, observability, data pipelines, and inference modernization. Manage engineers, budgets, and cloud costs while partnering across machine learning, data science, product engineering, and infrastructure. Drive platform scalability, build-versus-buy assessments, stack refreshes, production reliability, and adoption across the organization.

The role involves analyzing Data Center trends, translating customer needs into product strategies, defining system architectures, and ensuring stakeholder collaboration for project success.

Leads public cloud engineering teams responsible for designing, developing, implementing, and operating complex microservice-based systems. Establishes organizational processes, team structures, roadmaps, technical strategies, automation, and reliability practices. Acts as product owner, program manager, agile lead, and technical mentor while overseeing cloud architecture, infrastructure, nonfunctional requirements, and cross-functional delivery across distributed teams.

Leads and develops a cross-functional software engineering team delivering and operating an enterprise AI platform. Responsibilities include coaching engineers, improving software development, testing, DevOps, support, reliability, observability, and delivery practices; partnering with product, architecture, AI, and business leaders; hiring and developing talent; and occasionally contributing hands-on to coding, debugging, automation, technical spikes, and code reviews.

Leads financial systems engineering for a service-contract business. Owns reconciliation systems, invoicing logic, financial data models, revenue recognition controls, and audit reporting. Manages SQL and dbt models, automated validations, exception resolution, merchant configuration audits, and cross-functional escalations across Engineering, Finance, Accounting, and Revenue teams. Leads individual contributors and develops the team as business needs evolve.

Leads regional engineering strategy, staffing, budgets, technical quality, contract and proposal oversight, business development, and cross-company engineering collaboration. Manages engineering managers, engineers, and energy analysts while ensuring timely, high-quality delivery of energy efficiency and building-related services. Develops team capabilities, resolves strategic challenges, and serves as an internal and external engineering spokesperson.

Leads development of agent evaluation systems that assess live software agents using trace data, rubrics, benchmarks, and LLM-as-a-judge techniques. Owns the evaluation platform’s full stack, creates reusable workflows and integrations, tracks emerging evaluation methods, and collaborates with data science teams. Manages and mentors engineers while promoting evaluation practices across agent-focused products.

Leads and builds Infinia’s Release Engineering, DevOps, SecDevOps, and SRE functions. Owns release pipelines, CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, security tooling, reliability standards, observability, incident response, capacity planning, and scaling. Establishes SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and operational practices while building globally distributed engineering teams. Partners with product, QA, security, and executive leadership to communicate roadmaps, risks, and technical tradeoffs.

Leads and scales an enterprise Sales Engineering organization supporting strategic cybersecurity deals. Responsibilities include hiring and mentoring Sales Engineers, developing technical sales strategy, guiding complex evaluations and proof-of-value engagements, advising executive buyers, presenting scalable security architectures, and partnering with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Marketing. The role also establishes pre-sales processes, metrics, documentation, and operational standards while influencing product roadmap and go-to-market strategy.

Leads a 25+ person organization of data scientists, machine learning engineers, and analytics engineers across Identity and Financial Crime. Owns data quality, governance, lineage, domain data products, fraud and financial crime models, production performance, monitoring, and retraining. Partners with engineering, central data, risk, compliance, and legal teams, influences upstream data producers, manages incidents, and builds high-performing teams while driving strategy reported to executives and the board.

Lead the design and implementation of large-scale AI and machine learning systems for Yahoo Search across multiple teams. Define data strategies, evaluation frameworks, and scalable production-serving approaches. Drive technical alignment among engineering, product, design, and research teams; guide adoption of large language models, vision models, generative AI, and agentic AI; and oversee data analysis informing strategic product decisions.

Leads performance engineering and technical asset management for utility-scale BESS projects. Oversees contracts, budgets, schedules, cross-functional teams, technology services, operational performance, availability, degradation analysis, warranty reviews, contract compliance, invoicing validation, and technical issue resolution. Manages and mentors personnel, drives process improvements, coordinates with OEMs and stakeholders, and supports strategic initiatives across renewable energy services.

Leads AI automation quality and reliability as a player-coach. Builds testing harnesses, LLM evaluation frameworks, RAG and prompt regression tests, CI/CD release gates, staged rollouts, and rollback controls. Establishes quality metrics and standards for autonomous agents across internal platforms and customer-facing products. Partners with AI engineers, researchers, architects, and product teams on launch readiness, documents testing practices, and grows an automation function while remaining hands-on.

Leads and scales Grafana Labs’ East Coast Solutions Engineering organization, managing high-performing SE teams and building processes, playbooks, enablement, and job architectures. Partners with sales leadership on complex enterprise opportunities, improves win rates, engages strategically with customers, and channels field feedback into product and go-to-market strategy. The role requires experience in second-line SE leadership, team scaling, high-growth startups, open-source or developer-focused go-to-market motions, observability, and enterprise sales.

Leads multiple complex IT products and technology initiatives, managing software engineering teams, budgets, application portfolios, projects, and business partnerships. Responsibilities include setting goals and metrics, resolving technical and organizational issues, developing policies and standards, mentoring and evaluating staff, coordinating vendors, and supporting product development. The role requires advanced project management, systems analysis, communication, people leadership, and knowledge of modern programming languages, with AWS, Agile, insurance, and application portfolio experience preferred.

Leads the hands-on development and scaling of Oasis’s healthcare software platform. Responsibilities include architecture, production coding, AWS infrastructure, DevSecOps, AI-native workflows, external system integrations, reliability, observability, compliance, roadmap execution, and recruiting a high-performing engineering team. The role begins primarily as an individual contributor and evolves into player-coach leadership while delivering patient- and provider-facing applications.

Leads and scales the Forward Deployed Engineering team while overseeing customer-facing AI Agent deployments, technical integrations, go-to-market execution, operating KPIs, reusable playbooks, and cross-functional alignment. Partners with Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing, Support, and Account Management to improve deployment quality, adoption, revenue impact, and product evolution. Requires strong technical fluency with APIs, integrations, modern architectures, and coding, alongside experience in technical sales, solutions engineering, forward-deployed engineering, or professional services.

Leads the Insurance Product Configuration and Enrollment Platform Core, managing engineering managers and 20–30 engineers. Owns technical vision, distributed systems architecture, delivery commitments, operational excellence, testing strategy, partner implementations, and cross-team interfaces. Develops engineering leaders, manages hiring and vendors, and drives adoption of AI-augmented development tools and practices. Ensures scalable, secure, reliable platform services while balancing contractual delivery dates with long-term platform maintainability.

Lead strategy, engineering, implementation, and operations of enterprise OT telemetry platforms. Ensure availability, security, scalability, and standardization of telemetry services; integrate OT data sources with enterprise and cloud platforms; build and mentor engineering teams; establish operational processes, monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and lifecycle management; evaluate vendor technologies and maintain technical documentation.

Leads approximately 30 employees through engineering leaders to build and unify a high-volume eCommerce platform across multiple brands. Owns architecture, roadmap, delivery, reliability, cost, customer experience, KPIs, and SLAs. Partners with Product, UX, business stakeholders, and customers while remaining technically hands-on through design reviews, coding, architecture decisions, and engineering standards. Oversees quoting, ordering, catalog, pricing, inventory, fulfillment, order status, AI applications, and customer project experiences.