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Runpod · 1 month ago

Director of Software Engineering - Product & Platform Delivery

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

$200K/yr - $275K/yr

7+ years exp

Runpod is pioneering the future of AI and machine learning, offering cutting-edge cloud infrastructure for full-stack AI applications. They are seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead and scale their product-delivery engineering organization, overseeing the end-to-end delivery of customer-facing platform features across multiple teams.

AI InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud InfrastructureGPU

No H1B

Responsibilities

Own Product Feature Delivery: Lead multiple engineering teams responsible for shipping new features and improving Runpod’s customer experience across console, APIs, and developer workflows. Ensure predictable, high-velocity execution

Translate Roadmap into Results: Partner with Program management, Product and GTM to shape strategy, define quarterly goals, and convert requirements into clear technical scopes, milestones, and measurable outcomes

Build a High-Output Org: Hire, mentor, and grow engineering managers and senior ICs. Create a culture of ownership, speed, and craft in a remote-first environment

Drive Cross-Functional Launch Excellence: Run feature lifecycle processes - discovery support, design/architecture reviews, build phases, QA and rollout plans, release comms, and post-launch iteration

Improve Engineering System & Flow: Establish and evolve standards for lifecycle management, sprint/kanban execution, code review, CI/CD quality gates, release safety, documentation, and retrospectives

Customer-Backed Prioritization: Ensure engineering work aligns to user impact and business value. Constantly leverage customer insights, product analytics, and operational data to refine priorities

Quality & Velocity Leadership: Balance speed and reliability by improving automated testing, staging/preview environments, observability for product surfaces, and regression prevention

Technical Guidance on Product Surfaces: Provide architectural oversight for product systems (backend services, APIs, user workflows, integrations), ensuring scalability and coherence without bottlenecking teams

Partner with Infrastructure Leadership: Coordinate dependencies cleanly with infra/SRE teams to ensure high quality product delivery

Qualification

Engineering Leadership ExperienceProduct Delivery StrengthFull-StackBackend ExpertiseTechnical FluencyRemote-First Operating ExcellenceProcess & Metrics MindsetCommunication & CollaborationAI/MLOpen-source Contributions

Required

Engineering Leadership Experience: 7+ years leading software engineering teams including managers and/or multiple squads, with a proven record of shipping customer-facing products

Product Delivery Strength: Demonstrated ability to take complex roadmap goals from concept through launch, balancing scope, risk, timelines, and quality

Full-Stack or Backend Product Expertise: 8+ years building SaaS, platforms, or developer-facing products. Comfortable with modern backend stacks and pragmatic architectural decisions

Technical Fluency: Ability to go deep in system design and code when needed; experience with Go, Python, and/or TypeScript strongly preferred

Remote-First Operating Excellence: Experience building culture, accountability, and momentum across distributed teams

Process & Metrics Mindset: Strong use of delivery metrics (cycle time, throughput, escape defects, reliability, adoption), and experience improving team flow

Communication & Collaboration: Clear written and verbal communication, strong stakeholder management, and calm leadership through ambiguity

Successful completion of a background check

Preferred

Experience building cloud or developer platforms, APIs, or workflow-heavy products used by technical customers

Expertise with AI/ML product surfaces such as job orchestration UX, model deployment flows, observability dashboards, or billing/usage systems

Track record of scaling product teams in high-growth environments

Open-source contributions or recognition with communities of developers

Benefits

Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company- everyone on the team receives stock options — your impact drives our growth, and you share in the upside.

Generous medical, dental & vision plans — we cover 100% for all employees and partial for dependents.

Flexible PTO- take the time you need to recharge

Most roles are remote work first with an inclusive, collaborative teams utilizing slack as the main form of internal communication

$1,200 Home Office & Equipment Stipend- We set you up for success from day one with gear and support to create your ideal workspace