Top Director of Engineering Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Leads AWS-native application engineering initiatives across architecture, development, testing, deployment, and modernization. Sets technical direction, oversees multiple delivery workstreams, guides AI-enabled engineering practices, and develops scalable cloud solutions. Builds executive client relationships, shapes transformation roadmaps, supports business development, mentors engineering teams, and drives application performance, security, reliability, and cloud modernization across AWS and other major cloud platforms.

Leads CoreWeave’s multidisciplinary data center engineering organization and sets technical direction for its global portfolio. Governs Basis of Design documents, reference designs, standards, and long-term infrastructure roadmaps. Oversees integrated engineering across electrical, mechanical, civil, structural, architectural, controls, and life-safety disciplines; leads technical reviews, innovation, reliability, sustainability, supplier engagement, and resource planning. Partners with design, construction, commissioning, operations, technology, and supply chain teams to deliver scalable, high-density AI infrastructure.

Leads a 10+ person engineering organization developing AI-powered revenue cycle management products for dental practices. Sets technical vision, architectural standards, engineering processes, staffing plans, and cross-functional priorities while supporting 0-to-1 product development and platform scaling. The role requires hands-on technical credibility, experience with LLM products, cloud infrastructure, full-stack development, agile practices, hiring, mentorship, and communication with senior leadership.

Leads and mentors a product engineering organization, setting technical vision, strategy, roadmaps, and measurable goals. Partners with Product, Design, Data Science, Operations, and Engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable, secure, privacy-conscious products. Oversees distributed systems and product experiences, drives execution across strategic initiatives, develops engineering talent, hires leaders, and communicates priorities and risks to senior stakeholders.

Leads GitLab’s Database Excellence organization, setting strategy for PostgreSQL and other application datastores. Owns database reliability, capacity, availability, sustainability, infrastructure costs, and platform standardization. Manages three Engineering Managers, develops technical leaders, oversees hiring and organization design, establishes objectives and KPIs, manages budgets, partners cross-functionally on platform investments, and serves as an escalation point for database incidents and operational processes.

Lead Statara’s Data Products & Engineering function, owning Snowflake-based data infrastructure reliability and evolution, solution architecture for client engagements, pre-sales technical support, cross-functional alignment, and team leadership to deliver scalable data and analytics solutions.

Leads a 60-person engineering organization, managing seven engineering managers and owning delivery, staffing, organizational health, manager development, operating strategy, technical roadmap, and AI adoption. Establishes engineering KPIs using Linear, DORA, and reliability metrics; improves delivery predictability and system reliability; guides architecture and capacity allocation; and ships production AI or agentic initiatives with standards for security, cost, observability, and reliability.

Leads approximately 35 engineers across data engineering, integration engineering, and integration support. Owns delivery predictability, manager development, operational reliability, SLA performance, data platform modernization, integration scalability, and organizational clarity. Partners with product, data science, commercial, and delivery teams while overseeing healthcare integrations with EHR systems, enterprise data infrastructure, incident management, and client-facing reliability commitments.

Leads multiple Growth Engineering teams and managers, setting technical strategy and delivering acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, and reactivation initiatives. Partners cross-functionally with Product, Design, Data Science, Analytics, and Marketing to drive experimentation and measurable customer outcomes. Oversees architecture, engineering excellence, reliability, scalability, hiring, organizational planning, leadership development, and platform modernization.

Leads platform engineering across learner and enterprise products, setting architecture direction, integrating AI and data capabilities, managing engineering managers and teams, and improving quality, reliability, security, accessibility, and delivery. Partners with product, design, IT, cloud operations, sales, and executives on strategy, planning, budgets, and enterprise SaaS outcomes.

Leads engineering teams responsible for secure, scalable enterprise Linux platforms and services. Sets technical direction for OS image development, lifecycle management, automation, CI/CD, security hardening, software supply chain integrity, and operational resilience. Owns roadmaps and modernization initiatives, partners with cybersecurity and technology stakeholders, establishes governance and reliability metrics, and mentors engineering talent in a globally distributed, regulated environment.

Lead Attentive’s cloud platform organization, overseeing AWS infrastructure, Snowflake and centralized data platforms, database infrastructure, DevOps, and cloud cost optimization. Set technical strategy, improve reliability and operational standards, lead migrations, build self-service developer workflows, and develop engineering managers and technical leaders. Partner across Engineering, Product, Finance, and Developer Experience to improve infrastructure efficiency, scalability, security, and delivery speed.

Leads solution engineering and customer support operations for a digital health data platform. Responsibilities include building distributed engineering and support teams, leading technical pre-sales, designing customer data solutions, managing architecture and handoffs, owning post-launch support and incident resolution, establishing SLAs and operational metrics, overseeing vendors and budgets, and partnering with Product and Platform Engineering to improve reliability and reduce support demand.

Leads architecture and engineering for consolidating global wide area networks into a unified platform. Defines carrier-scale routing, traffic engineering, resiliency, automation, telemetry, validation, and AI-assisted operational strategies. Oversees transformation plans, migrations, production rollouts, technical standards, risk controls, and reliability improvements while partnering across engineering, infrastructure, cloud, security, operations, and architecture teams.

Leads Scout Motors’ Digital Product Engineering organization across sales, aftersales, user experience, and utility tools. Owns engineering strategy, architecture, delivery, scalability, reliability, security, talent, budgets, and operating models. Partners with executive, product, commercial, marketing, operations, and vehicle engineering teams to deliver customer-facing digital platforms. Establishes AI-assisted engineering practices and AI-native product capabilities using agents, RAG, MCP, APIs, and intelligent workflows.

Leads and grows the engineering organization responsible for B2B event configuration tools. Sets product and technical direction, makes architectural decisions, scales reliable and high-performance platforms, sequences complex initiatives, and partners with product leadership. Owns hiring, talent development, engineering culture, and leadership growth while leveraging AI and modern cloud technologies to deliver software for event clients.

Lead a team of engineers in designing and building innovative battery materials and testing equipment, ensuring project success and team development.

Lead Patreon’s Payments engineering team, setting technical direction and roadmap priorities for billing, checkout, payout, compliance, and payment infrastructure. Drive reliability initiatives, international payment expansion, vendor and build-versus-buy decisions, and cross-functional planning. Manage and develop a 10–12-person engineering team, oversee hiring and performance, and deliver reliable, high-quality payment experiences for creators and fans.

Lead approximately eight engineers across product and infrastructure teams while remaining hands-on in the codebase. Own platform delivery, engineering quality, reliability, incident response, hiring, team design, performance development, and execution cadence. Partner with the CEO on technical direction and product priorities, ship critical-path software, build a hiring plan for at least four senior engineers, and establish effective release and incident-review processes.

Leads end-to-end product quality strategy across infrastructure, platform, data, applications, APIs, and AI agent systems. Manages and scales a 40+ person quality engineering organization, establishes testing standards and quality gates, drives AI-enabled QE transformation, and owns observability, incident management, governance, audits, and compliance. Partners with senior Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Security leaders while reporting quality metrics, release risk, and readiness to executives.

Provides technical and people leadership for forensic investigations of damaged building structures and mechanical and electrical systems. Conducts site inspections, analyzes materials and environmental factors, interprets building codes, and prepares defensible technical reports. Reviews consultants’ work, manages project scope and budgets, coordinates clients and site visits, mentors engineers, and supports business development. The role is fully remote but requires field work and travel up to 50%.

Leads Prolific Machines’ multidisciplinary hardware engineering function, overseeing illumination systems from R&D prototypes through customer-grade production and field deployment. Owns hardware strategy, roadmap, systems architecture, team development, external partners, productization, GMP readiness, quality practices, and electrical safety certification. Partners with the CTO and cross-functional leaders to translate company priorities into technical plans, budgets, hiring, and scalable hardware products for bioprocessing environments.

Leads the platform development organization, including software engineering, architecture, platform modernization, cloud adoption, AI-enabled capabilities, and enterprise solution delivery. Establishes development standards, SDLC readiness gates, CI/CD workflows, security practices, and continuous improvement initiatives. Oversees architects, managers, and software engineers while managing resources, risks, and escalations. Requires extensive Microsoft technology, Azure, software architecture, regulated-environment validation, and people leadership experience.

Leads the SRE function for a business-critical domain, owning reliability strategy, SLOs, observability, incident response, resilience, capacity, automation, and risk management. Builds and develops high-performing SRE teams and managers, translates business priorities into reliability roadmaps, partners with engineering, product, infrastructure, security, and risk teams, and remains technically hands-on in software and automation solutions.

Leads enterprise stability and resilience engineering teams and capabilities. Builds software engineering standards, automation, governance, and reusable controls that improve reliability, recoverability, security, scalability, performance, and customer outcomes. Maps customer journeys and technology dependencies, drives resilience-by-design across the engineering lifecycle, establishes reliability and performance practices, and influences executive leaders on multi-year modernization strategies.