Director of Software Engineering

Role Overview

Join a fast-growing Quantum Computing & AI company — one of the most cutting-edge spaces in tech today.

You will be responsible for end-to-end ownership of software engineering execution, including

architecture, delivery, scalability, reliability, security, and engineering culture. This role bridges

technology strategy and business outcomes, ensuring high-quality, high-performance software

systems delivered at scale in production across enterprises.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy & Architecture

○ Define and execute the engineering roadmap.

○ Own technical decision-making and drive architecture evolution

○ Ensure scalability, performance, security.

○ Provide architectural leadership for distributed systems, microservices, data

platforms, and AI/ML workloads.

○ Ensure systems meet NFRs as performance, security, cost efficiency.

• Delivery &Quality

○ Ensure on-time, high-quality delivery across multiple teams.

○ Enforce engineering best practices (design/code reviews, CI/CD).

○ Own delivery metrics (velocity, quality, reliability).

○ Partner closely with Product Management and other cross-functional teams.

○ Ensure clear prioritization and seamless delivery.

• Operational Excellence

○ Own production readiness and operational excellence.

○ Drive reliability practices (SLOs, incident response).

○ Ensure a strong security posture and compliance.

• Team Leadership & Development

○ Build, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering leaders and teams.

○ Establish clear career paths and foster a culture of technical excellence and

continuous learning.

○ Lead the hiring strategy for senior engineering roles.

• Innovation & Productivity

○ Champion engineering productivity improvements (tooling, automation).

○ Drive innovation, technical debt reduction, and modernization initiatives.

Technical Expertise

• Strong foundation in software architecture, system design, and distributed systems, with ownership of scalability, performance, reliability, security, and cost efficiency in enterprise production systems.
• Hands-on expertise in Python, Java, Go, C++/Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript,Node.js including concurrency, parallelism, async runtimes, memory/GC internals and performance profiling.
• Backend & API systems using FastAPI, Django, Flask, Spring Boot, Gin/Fiber, NestJS/Express, with REST, gRPC, GraphQL, OpenAPI, service meshes, and API gateways.
• Data & streaming platforms: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra/DynamoDB; Kafka, Pulsar, RabbitMQ, SQS/SNS, real-time and event-driven architectures.
• Cloud-native & next-gen infra on AWS/Azure/GCP with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform/IaC, multi-region, multi-cloud, serverless, edge computing, and cloud cost optimization (FinOps).
• CI/CD & platform engineering with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitOps, progressive delivery (blue-green/canary), internal developer platforms (IDPs).
• Observability & reliability using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, eBPF-based observability, SLOs/SLIs, incident response, postmortems.
• Security & trust engineering: OAuth2, JWT, mTLS, Vault/KMS, zero-trust architectures, policy-as-code, secure supply chain, OWASP Top 10, SOC2/ISO-aligned SDLC.
• Modern engineering practices: fault tolerance, consistency models, networking, OS/runtime internals, automated quality, security, and reliability checks, AI-assisted development, AIOps, and autonomous remediation patterns.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 5+ years leading large, multi-team engineering organizations
• Proven experience delivering large-scale, production-grade software systems
• Exceptional people management and leadership skills

Skills: leadership,scalability,ci,software,architecture,cloud,platforms