Bandwidth Inc. · 5 days ago
Vice President, Software Development
Raleigh, NC
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
10+ years expBandwidth Inc. is a global software company that helps enterprises deliver exceptional experiences through voice, messaging, and emergency services. They are seeking a Vice President of Software Development to lead a large software engineering organization, define technical strategy, and enable teams to deliver high-availability platforms with strong reliability practices.
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Responsibilities
Set a 18 to 24 month technical strategy across platform, data, reliability, and AI enablement; translate into org design and staffing
Drive service decomposition and multi-region/active-active architectures with clear SLIs/SLOs and error budgets
Instrument delivery with DORA metrics / four keys and use data to improve lead time, deployment frequency, MTTR, and change failure rate
Work in partnership with Product leader counterparts to facilitate and support, through management and project teams, the completion of software projects
Build a strong EM/Director/Staff+ bench; coach managers; run clear career architecture and succession plans
Raise engineering quality via lightweight design docs/RFCs and high-signal code reviews; enforce security/privacy by design
Partner tightly with Product/Design/Operations/Infosec on roadmaps, investment cases, and cloud cost outcomes; communicate to the senior leadership team
Make principled, transparent decisions – especially under ambiguity or pressure
Qualification
Required
10+ years in software; 5+ years leading leaders (EMs/Directors) across orgs of 50 – 100+
Consistent bar-raiser in recruiting, hiring, and coaching engineers to high performance
Demonstrated high-integrity decision making
Deep expertise in distributed systems (partitioning, consensus, backpressure, idempotency, caches, data integrity)
Operating tier-1, high-throughput, low-latency services in multi-region cloud; on-call/incident leadership experience
Proven adoption of DORA/four keys and demonstrated improvements to velocity and stability
Track record implementing progressive delivery and safe deploys at scale
Leadership in values-led cultures; excellent communication to execs and external stakeholders
Preferred
Built/modernized platforms (K8s, service mesh, CI/CD, observability, secrets, auth) with broad team adoption
Operational mindset; defined SLIs/SLOs, ran error-budget policies, and institutionalized blameless postmortems
Experience enabling AI/LLM use in products (guardrails, evals/telemetry, data boundaries)
Benefits
100% company-paid Medical, Vision, & Dental coverage for you and your family with low deductibles and low out-of-pocket expenses.
All new hires receive four weeks of PTO.
PTO Embargo. When you take time off (of any kind!) you’re embargoed from working. Bandmates and managers are not allowed to interrupt your PTO – not even with email.
Additional PTO can be earned throughout the year through volunteer hours and Bandwidth challenges.
“Mahalo moments” program grants additional time off for life’s most important moments like graduations, buying a first home, getting married, wedding anniversaries (every five years), and the birth of a grandchild.
90-Minute Workout Lunches and unlimited meetings with our very own nutritionist.
Company
Bandwidth Inc.
Bandwidth is the universal communications platform that simplifies how businesses deliver integrated global experiences.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$20.5MKey Investors
Portolan Capital ManagementAilanthus Capital Management
2018-06-27Post Ipo Equity
2018-01-11Post Ipo Equity
2017-11-10IPO
Leadership Team
Scott Mullen
CTO
Kade Ross
CIO
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