Top Director of Engineering Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Lead and manage multiple engineering teams across Transfers, Client Treasury, and GTPN Infrastructure to define technical vision, deliver high-quality payment and treasury products, remove blockers, collaborate with product and design, measure product performance using data, and scale global payment infrastructure.

Leads the Engineering organization across two remote teams, directly managing, coaching, and developing engineers. Partners with Product to drive timely, high-quality delivery; staffs initiatives, develops technical leads, resolves cross-team risks, supports hiring, and contributes to architecture, technical debt, and scaling decisions. The role oversees execution, engineering process, quality, and team engagement while guiding a high-scale SaaS platform built with TypeScript, Python, Django, React, AWS, Postgres, and Redis.

The Director of Engineering will lead the vision and technical direction of battery pack design, manage team development, and ensure project delivery across various industries.

Lead and grow a 10+ engineer team to build AI-driven Revenue Cycle Management products for dental care. Define architecture and engineering standards, align cross-functional teams, drive product delivery from 0-1 and 1-to-N, implement best practices and CI/CD, and occasionally contribute to code while communicating strategy to senior leadership.

The VP Engineering will lead the engineering team, oversee product development for the dating app, manage resources, and ensure high app quality and scalability.

Lead the electrical engineering team for designing and developing consumer products, oversee technical leadership in power electronics and embedded systems, and manage product development from concept to production.

Lead and develop motor engineering team, drive motor technology strategy, oversee end-to-end motor development, collaborate with suppliers and engineering teams, ensure optimal performances and manufacturability of motor systems.

Leads architecture, development, and optimization of global Order-to-Cash revenue systems. Builds DBT/SQL pipelines, automated revenue recognition and reconciliation workflows, ERP and billing integrations, and testing and deployment frameworks supporting ASC 606 compliance. Partners with Finance, Accounting, Data Infrastructure, and Engineering teams during high-volume operations and month-end close. Drives AI-enabled revenue automation, integration modernization, technical standards, and team mentorship.

Lead operational engineering across three product lines: roadmap delivery, release coordination, incident/on-call programs, staffing and capacity planning, engineering metrics, and AI-native engineering governance. Manage and develop engineering managers, partner with Product and Finance, and quantify AI-assisted development ROI.

Leads the architecture, delivery, verification, and on-orbit support of embedded flight software for a satellite constellation. Manages and grows the flight software organization, establishes scalable development and quality processes, coordinates with multidisciplinary engineering teams, and drives technical strategy, reliability, resource planning, and delivery across satellite programs.

The role involves leading the engineering team to build and scale institutional trading capabilities across various asset classes while ensuring a robust architecture and technical standards.

Leads the creation of Stellarus’s performance engineering and test automation function. Owns automated performance, load, stress, scalability, reliability, regression, and end-to-end testing systems, CI/CD quality gates, performance standards, synthetic workloads, observability-driven analysis, dashboards, and release readiness criteria. Partners with developers and platform engineering across cloud-native services, Kubernetes, APIs, databases, and event-driven systems. Mentors technical teams, leads readiness reviews, and builds a high-leverage team while remaining hands-on with tooling and strategy.

Leads the Consumer Engineering Quality Engineering organization and defines strategy for web, mobile, origination, and decisioning systems. Directs QA talent, test automation, AI-enabled testing, release certification, quality gates, CI/CD infrastructure, and risk-based testing. Partners with engineering, product, platform, risk, and business leaders to improve delivery quality and reduce escaped defects in regulated financial applications.

Lead Braintrust’s product engineering organization, setting technical direction, improving UI quality, scaling frontend architecture, and delivering sophisticated AI-focused product capabilities. Build and develop a high-performing engineering team while partnering closely with Product, Design, customers, and code. Oversee products including prompt experimentation, versioning, multiplayer human review, and large-scale LLM analysis.

Lead Braintrust’s product engineering organization and technical direction. Build and scale a high-performing team, improve UI quality, guide frontend architecture, partner with Product and Design, and deliver sophisticated AI product capabilities including prompt experimentation, versioning, multiplayer review, and large-scale LLM analysis. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring strong product judgment, modern web application expertise, and a focus on usability, performance, reliability, and execution.

Lead multiple platform engineering teams to build scalable, high-volume SaaS infrastructure for security products. Drive technical roadmap, SRE and developer-experience best practices, integrate AI tooling, hire and coach managers, measure engineering performance, and partner with product and architecture to deliver iterative customer value.

Lead and grow ROOST's engineering team, set technical direction, drive high-quality open-source development and release practices, engage the external community as stakeholders, and contribute hands-on to code, architecture, and operational excellence.

Lead engineering strategy, architecture, AI-native product development, execution, hiring, and organizational growth. Partner with the CEO, leadership, and Product to build technical roadmaps, establish AI-assisted development and evaluation practices, improve infrastructure and engineering quality, and maintain delivery accountability. This hands-on leadership role requires coding credibility, product collaboration, talent development, cross-functional communication, and ownership of engineering metrics, culture, and technical direction.

Lead the engineering of a platform for digital assets, focusing on scalability, security, and team growth. Directly manage the development of critical systems supporting millions of users.

Lead Booking engineering (five teams) to deliver high-scale scheduling, booking, communications, telehealth, and marketplace systems. Hire and grow engineering leaders, shape technical and AI strategy (agentic workflows, evals), drive high-velocity delivery with quality, partner with Product and Design, and scale the org through new product lines and rising customer demand.

Lead senior engineering teams responsible for ZoomInfo’s operational and analytical data platforms. Set strategy, architecture, and roadmaps for Bigtable, BigQuery, ingestion pipelines, CDC systems, reliability, scalability, observability, and compliant customer data deletion. Manage technical leaders, develop engineering talent, prioritize competing initiatives, and partner with executives, product, legal, compliance, security, and downstream engineering teams to accelerate data onboarding and maintain platform integrity.

Lead and grow engineering teams owning the Okta Integration Network, define multi-year roadmap, deliver secure scalable integration capabilities (OAuth/OIDC/SAML/SCIM), partner with product/security/AI, manage operations, budgets, and cross‑geo programs to ensure high reliability and extensibility.

Leads the vision, roadmap, and development of an AI-enabled Service Catalog platform. Combines product leadership with hands-on full-stack engineering across web applications, APIs, integrations, workflows, and AI features. Manages engineering and product strategy, defines success metrics, partners with architects and stakeholders, prototypes capabilities, and ensures scalable, secure, responsible solutions with human oversight.

Leads the technical vision, architecture, development, and delivery of FOS software products. Manages and scales engineering teams, drives modernization from legacy to modern technology stacks, oversees cloud, microservices, APIs, CI/CD, quality, security, and reliability practices, and collaborates with product and business stakeholders. The role also supports talent recruitment and development, compliance with SOC 2 requirements, disaster recovery planning, and continuous engineering improvement.

Lead and scale Inspiren's embedded firmware organization: define technical roadmap, architectures, standards, and AI-augmented workflows; oversee multi-modal sensing firmware (mmWave, optical, audio), multi-protocol communications, SoC strategy, OTA and secure/HIPAA-compliant systems; manage JDM partnerships and cross-functional alignment across R&D, NPI, and sustaining engineering.