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Director – Engineering
Company | Illumio |
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Location | Sunnyvale, CA, USA |
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Salary | $261000 – $313000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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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.