Director, Engineering - Developer Tooling

Meet The Team: 

The Developer Tooling organization is focused on enabling and empowering developers by delivering highly efficient systems that enhance developer productivity across the engineering organization. We are looking for a seasoned leader that will bring new ideas, optimizations, and best practices for the entire software organization. As a director, you will work closely with managers and engineers to improve the processes that support the development of high-quality safety-critical software.  

What You’ll Do:

• Develops business plans and operational priorities to meet goals and objectives of the organization.
• Facilitate processes for the delivery of scalable and high-quality systems products for autonomous driving vehicles and support systems.
• Collaborates with other management and teams as needed to meet goals, monitor team performance, and achieve objectives.
• Responsible for understanding the technical domain of the team’s software services
• Accountable and responsible for career development and coaching of the team.
• Accountable and responsible for selection and performance management of their teams.
• Accountable and responsible for ensuring continuous performance feedback is delivered and compensation analysis in close collaboration with peer managers and People Operations.

What You’ll Need to Succeed: 

• Ability to be a strategic partner to the organization and identify & plan how to meet future needs of the organization.
• Expert knowledge and demonstrated leader of developer tooling acting as an advisor to other leaders on relevant trends and emerging issues.
• Ability to effectively manage a team of managers and professionals and identify opportunities to grow and develop the team.
• Ability to evangelize best practices and promote consistent standards including test automation, observability, and performance metrics.
• Experience leading teams that work with cloud infrastructure at scale (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Develop plans and anticipate the needs for incident response, security and compliance audits.

Bonus Points:

• Experience within the autonomous vehicle industry.

Perks of Being a Full-time Torc’r

Torc cares about our team members and we strive to provide benefits and resources to support their health, work/life balance, and future. Our culture is collaborative, energetic, and team focused. Torc offers:  

• A competitive compensation package that includes a bonus component and stock options
• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees  
• 401K plan with a 6% employer match
• Flexibility in schedule and generous paid vacation (available immediately after start date)
• Company-wide holiday office closures
• AD+D and Life Insurance