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Director – Engineering

Director – Engineering

CompanyIllumio
LocationSunnyvale, CA, USA
Salary$261000 – $313000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • Experience with management of 10+ full-time engineers and working globally, with 10+ years in roles of increasing responsibility and technical leadership.
  • Significant experience building and delivering scalable, cloud-native enterprise SaaS products and services. Proven track record of taking enterprise software products from inceptions to customer delivery.
  • Fluency with modern public cloud infrastructure (particularly AWS and Azure), containerization and orchestration technologies, and DevOps tools and best practices.
  • Outstanding interpersonal skills, intellectual curiosity, an entrepreneurial spirit, and a passion for bringing a culture of innovation and continuous improvement to product development through behavior, decisions and actions.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to understand and present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.
  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the team responsible for the development of platform services, define and execute platform engineering initiatives, and manage the integration of the application with the infrastructure.
  • Work with leaders across engineering, operations, product management, and other functions to make decisions critical to features, product releases, and the overall evolution of the platform.
  • Ensure the correctness, scalability, and modularity of the platform architecture and implementation, as well as its compliance with regulatory standards and security best practices.
  • Grow and develop the top-notch team that delivers these capabilities, partnering with senior technical leads and cross functional leaders.
  • Define, manage, and enforce milestone gates to ensure feature completeness and release quality while balancing business concerns with release deadlines, delivering on-time releases to some of the largest and most demanding enterprise customers.
  • Play a critical role in product planning, working closely with senior executives to develop business milestones and resource requirements, influencing our long-term technical and business strategy.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with networking and security is highly desired.
  • Experience with developing and supporting enterprise software in regulated environments (e.g. PCI, FedRAMP) is highly desired.