About the job
LeanData empowers the world's fastest-growing companies by streamlining, automating, and accelerating revenue generation.
As the Director of Engineering, you will play a pivotal role in expanding our R&D organization, directly reporting to the Senior Vice President of Engineering. This leadership position is essential for our growth trajectory. Initially, you will oversee our Core Infrastructure and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams, focusing on establishing a robust foundation for reliability, scalability, and enhanced developer productivity. As you strengthen this foundation, your responsibilities will extend to several core application engineering teams.
You will guide new managers and cultivate senior individual contributors to help them reach their fullest potential. Your collaboration will be crucial in designing the systems that allow our product teams to operate swiftly and enable our customers to scale confidently.
At LeanData, we prioritize Decisiveness, Simplicity, and the belief that the Job's Not Finished. Our pace is rapid, clarity is paramount, and we consistently pursue excellence. If this resonates with you, we are eager to hear from you.
Please note: This is a hybrid role based in our Santa Clara, CA office, requiring in-office attendance two days per week: Monday and Wednesday.
Key Responsibilities:
Platform & Infrastructure Leadership
Develop and implement a strategic vision for our core platform, emphasizing our AWS infrastructure, SRE practices, observability tools (including New Relic and CloudWatch), and our CI/CD pipeline.
Ensure operational excellence and a strong focus on reliability across all services. You will be responsible for establishing, monitoring, and being accountable for key Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs), alongside improving our incident response protocols.
Create and advocate for an internal developer platform that significantly enhances developer productivity, optimizes our build/test/deploy cycles, and offers a premier experience for all engineering teams.
Application & Product Delivery
Expand your role to lead, mentor, and scale multiple application engineering teams, taking full ownership of their roadmaps, execution, and quality standards.
Steer the technical delivery of key enterprise-grade B2B SaaS features, such as permissions management, public APIs, core integrations, and reporting functionalities.
Collaborate closely with Product Management and Design to ensure your teams are delivering the right solutions, managing technical debt effectively, and maintaining high-quality standards.
