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Everlaw · 2 days ago

Director of Engineering, Platform Engineering

Oakland, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

$241K/yr - $305K/yr

5+ years exp

Everlaw is a company focused on promoting justice by illuminating truth. In this role, you will guide the scalable and secure building of Everlaw’s platform while collaborating with various teams to prioritize efforts and improve processes across engineering.

Cloud ComputingDocument ManagementLegalLegal Tech

Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

Hiring Manager

Erika Kelsey Jimeno

Responsibilities

Critically observe and understand Everlaw’s platform, tooling and processes

Understand current and upcoming challenges and requirements from the viewpoint of multiple stakeholders

Understand company goals and Engineering roadmaps

Strategize, prioritize, resource and execute against our Engineering roadmap

Actively coach your reports (both senior engineers and managers) to deliver on projects and ensure they get the right types of feedback and coaching they need to succeed in their careers

Work with Engineering Operations, cross-functional teams, team members and managers to improve various processes that affect infrastructure growth, support, alignment, collaboration and accountability

Qualification

Platform EngineeringCloud TechnologiesSoftware DesignStakeholder CommunicationTechnical RoadmappingTeam LeadershipCoachingProcess ImprovementMentoring

Required

You have a BS/MS or PhD in Computer Science (or equivalent)

You have a sound foundational understanding of a wide range of computer science topics and concerns relating to system and software design

You have at least 5 years of experience as a senior engineer building one or more of - developer productivity tools, highly available platform services (i.e. storage systems, pub-sub systems, search systems, caching solutions, observability solutions) and/or have expertise and experience with infrastructure and/or cloud technologies (like Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker etc)

You have a good dynamic range that you apply to different situations - you can step back and empower, while also diving deep into the code to understand the details

You can communicate at the right altitude with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

You have experience working with stakeholder teams (internal and/or external) in setting and collaborating on technical roadmaps

You have experience communicating with customers articulating to them how the platform works on reliability, security and compliance matters

You have at least 3 years of experience managing and leading senior engineers. You have experience managing the technical workstreams of software engineers and supporting them in execution

You have at least 1 year of experience managing and leading managers - coaching and mentoring them on talent management, strategic planning and execution. You have experience managing platform engineering teams

You have demonstrated the ability to lead an inspired, high performing and highly motivated and accountable team

You are authorized to work in the United States. Please note that at this time, Everlaw is not sponsoring F-1 visas, including OPT, for this role