Harbor IT
Mitigating Risks, Securing Futures
Director of Engineering
Location
United States
Posted
21 days ago
Salary
$186.9K - $207.7K / year
10 yrs expEnglishSDLC
Job Description
• Drive roadmap delivery predictability by ensuring quarterly commitments are met through disciplined planning and execution.
• Maintain world-class service reliability for owned systems, targeting 99.95% uptime and proactive incident management.
• Foster operational excellence by establishing rigorous postmortem processes and continuously improving the mean time to restore services.
• Oversee engineering quality and throughput by implementing standards that minimize defect escape rates and optimize deployment frequency.
• Build and sustain a high-density talent environment, through active coaching and effective hiring.
• Manage the engineering budget and resources with precision, ensuring headcount plans and infrastructure spend align with organizational goals.
• Establish a robust code review and documentation ecosystem that ensures high standards, architectural clarity, and rapid knowledge sharing.
• Cultivate deep cross-functional partnerships with Product, Operations, and Finance to align priorities and resolve complex trade-offs.
Job Requirements
- 10 or more years of experience in software engineering or a closely related technical domain.
- 4 or more years of experience leading other leaders, including managing Engineering Managers and Tech Leads.
- Proven track record of owning the delivery and reliability of complex, large-scale production systems.
- Demonstrated expertise in organizational design, team scaling, and performance management within an engineering context.
- Mastery of the full software development life cycle, including estimation, release management, and incident response.
- Strong architectural competence with a focus on service boundaries, scalability, and resiliency patterns.
- Experience implementing operational excellence frameworks such as SLO thinking, monitoring, and alerting.
- Ability to guide security fundamentals and secure SDLC practices, ensuring robust vulnerability management and risk awareness.
Benefits
- health benefits
- flexible paid time off
- parental leave
- fertility and adoption assistance
- 401(k)
- educational reimbursement