LeanData · 9 hours ago
Director of Engineering
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
6+ years expLeanData helps the world’s fastest-growing companies automate, simplify, and accelerate revenue. As the Director of Engineering, you will lead the scaling of the R&D organization, focusing on Core Infrastructure and SRE, while mentoring new managers and developing senior individual contributors.
AdvertisingAnalyticsBusiness Process Automation (BPA)Information TechnologyLead ManagementSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Define and execute a forward-looking strategy for our core platform, focusing on our AWS infrastructure, SRE, observability (New Relic, CloudWatch), and CI/CD pipeline
Drive operational excellence and obsessive reliability for all services. You will establish, track, and be accountable for key SLOs/SLIs and mature our incident response process
Build and champion an internal developer platform that measurably boosts developer productivity, streamlines our build/test/deploy cycles, and provides a world-class experience for all engineers
Grow your scope to lead, mentor, and scale multiple application engineering teams, taking full ownership of their roadmaps, execution, and quality
Drive the technical delivery of key enterprise-grade B2B SaaS features, such as permissions, public APIs, core integrations, and reporting
Partner closely with Product Management and Design to ensure your teams are building the right solutions, balancing technical debt, and delivering high business impact
Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of ~10 engineers, with a plan to scale beyond that
Recruit and develop our next set of leaders, including both homegrown managers and senior/staff-level individual contributors
Act as a key member of the engineering leadership team, partnering with the SVP and peer leaders to refine processes, set strategy, and scale the entire R&D organization
Qualification
Required
6+ years of engineering leadership experience, with a clear progression of managing platform/infrastructure teams and product/application teams
Deep technical expertise in modern cloud-native operations, specifically AWS, along with SRE principles (SLOs/SLIs, incident management), observability, and CI/CD
Proven track record of building highly engaged and high-performing engineering teams, with a strong pull for talent and experience coaching engineers at scale
Experience hiring and growing leaders (both managers and senior ICs) on your team
Strong product sense and customer empathy, with a track record of partnering with product management to deliver complex, customer-facing application roadmaps
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of partnering with product, design, and other engineering leaders
Preferred
Ideally with some of the following: ECS, IAM, ALB, CloudFront, Lambda, SQS, S3, CloudWatch, Docker, APM (New Relic), nginx, PM2
Benefits
LeanData covers employee insurance premiums up to 90%
Stock options in LeanData for all full-time employees
Flexible PTO
401K plan
Company
LeanData
LeanData is a platform that enables revenue teams (marketing, sales, customer, and partner ops) to manage all go-to-market motions.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2020 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$42.6MKey Investors
Tenaya CapitalSapphire VenturesShasta Ventures
2019-03-18Series C· $27.5M
2016-12-20Series B· $10M
2014-03-19Series A· $5.1M
Leadership Team
Kelvin Cheung
CTO & Co-founder
Evan Liang
Board Director & Chief Strategy Officer
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