Sr. Director of Engineering, Graph Data Plane

What you’ll do

• [Business] Lead key business KPIs to deliver results which align business goals to the organization’s technical strategy, roadmap and objectives.
• [X-org] Collaborate with and influence executive leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders: product management, customer success & go-to-market, to deliver cross-cutting strategic product and infrastructure projects.
• [Run The Business] Drive strategic and tactical prioritization of engineering investments to refine our systems architecture in ways that unlock next generation solutions for our user’s needs.
• [Execution] Manage and grow a team of engineers and engineering leaders, including line managers, to deliver high business impact projects on schedule with high-quality.
• [Hiring] Partner with our Talent Acquisition team to attract and hire top talent, and define the overall hiring strategies for your team.
• [People & development] Build and lead high performing, collaborative teams, empowering leaders through trust, autonomy and psychological safety, and accelerating individual career development.
• [Community] Understand free and open licensed projects deeply, to help drive the right balance between our users’ needs and the community interests.
• Participate in on-call rotation.

Minimum requirements

• 3+ years as a Sr. Director or above (leading directors, managers, senior managers and Principal level IC's).
• Experience leading and scaling teams of at least 25 people.
• Minimum 3 years of deep technical experience managing teams that have shipped and operated critical distributed systems infrastructure at scale.
• Experience managing engineering teams working on API design, platforms (e.g. building internal or external developer products), or frameworks.
• Skilled at both receiving feedback, and delivering feedback that moves the dial.
• Creates alignment, clarity and connection through adaptive and persuasive written and verbal communication skills; able to apply technical judgment to drive clarity with Sr. Staff and Principal engineers about architecture and technical strategic decisions.
• Understanding of different SDLC models and their relevance to source-available products, including optimizing for backwards compatibility, community reception and software licensing.
• Experience driving business and product success in a highly cross-functional environment with a high level of autonomy and responsibility.
• Experience successfully building a team (recruiting, mentoring and retaining), defining its mission, and executing on its goals.

Nice to have

• Experience leading large organizational and cultural change initiatives. 
• Experience leading a remote and globally distributed team.
• Experience with a variety of common backend services and infrastructure platforms (GraphQL, databases, logging, event streams, metrics, caching, async programming models etc).
• Experience developing with and contributing to open source framework ecosystems.
• Experience developing sustainable, in-house framework and abstraction ecosystems in large engineering orgs.