Top Director of Engineering Jobs in San Francisco, CA

The Director of Embedded Systems Engineering will lead the firmware organization, oversee technical roadmaps, process architecture, and integrate AI tools while managing JDM partnerships and ensuring operational excellence.

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 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.

The Director of Engineering will lead the strategy and execution of eCommerce and ERP initiatives, focusing on Shopify and NetSuite, while ensuring scalable solutions and fostering innovation.

Lead and scale core cloud and bare-metal infrastructure including SRE, global and HPC networking, and distributed storage. Define SLOs/SLAs, incident response, observability, and IaC. Architect InfiniBand/RoCE networks and high-performance storage to support large GPU workloads. Hire and mentor managers and senior ICs, partner with product and program teams to forecast capacity and drive reliability, throughput, and low-latency infrastructure at scale.

Lead multiple engineering teams and Engineering Managers to deliver scalable landlord-facing products. Drive technical strategy, architecture, execution discipline, and product partnership. Improve delivery predictability, team health, hiring, and leadership development to ensure high-impact, reliable systems that support multifamily operators and landlord workflows.

The Director of Platform & Reliability Engineering will lead teams in platform engineering, cloud operations, and site reliability to build secure, scalable, and reliable products, requiring strategic vision and technical expertise.

The Engineering Director will lead product engineering teams, ensuring high-quality product delivery, shaping technical direction, and developing team leadership while partnering with Product and Design for strategic execution.

The Director of Solutions Engineering will lead pre-sales technical functions, oversee demos and POCs, build playbooks, and coach a team. This role requires strong technical expertise in AI and security while collaborating with various departments to improve sales efficiency and customer success.

Lead and own payer enrollment as a business: set goals for enrollment times and success rates, prioritize builds, ship fast, measure outcomes, make technical tradeoffs, hire and develop engineering managers and engineers, and partner with Product, Operations, and Applied AI to automate and scale enrollment workflows.

Lead the Hosting Platform engineering team owning roadmap, reliability, scalability, and performance for hundreds of thousands of sites. Mentor managers and senior engineers, drive architecture for distributed, multi-tenant systems (edge delivery, caching, databases), define SLOs and observability, manage incident response and customer escalations, balance technical debt, and champion AI-native engineering and automation.

Lead and grow the engineering organization, drive architecture and roadmap with the CTO, recruit and develop engineers, ship production software, establish processes for speed and quality, and collaborate with clinical stakeholders to translate needs into product.

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 Zapier's Enterprise engineering organization responsible for identity, access, audit, admin tooling, and AI/agent governance. Define strategy and technical roadmap, ensure reliability of Tier-1 services, partner with Product, Sales, and Customer Success, shape AI-native engineering practices, build and develop managers and ICs, and oversee cross-org initiatives and incident leadership.

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.

As Senior Director of Engineering, you will lead a high-impact team to develop and execute platform strategies for AI-based services in clinical trials, ensuring product development and team scalability.

Lead engineering excellence for Marketplace and Auctions products. Drive technical strategy, people development, and delivery outcomes while championing AI engineering practices.

Lead and scale the engineering organization for GiveDirectly's cash delivery platform. Own technical strategy, team structure, hiring, operational excellence (on-call, incidents, testing, deployments), and representation of engineering at senior leadership. Start hands-on managing engineers and partner on roadmap and delivery to scale the platform to billions in transfers.

Lead Boulevard's cloud infrastructure and reliability practice, driving AWS-based platform architecture, EKS containerization, Terraform/GitOps automation, CI/CD transformation, observability, disaster recovery, and security/compliance. Build and mentor an infrastructure team and partner with Product and Data to enable scalable, highly available services.

Lead and scale Forward Deployed Engineering and Technical Support teams, owning customer technical outcomes from pre-sales through deployment. Define engagement models, SLAs/SLOs, on-call/escalation structures, tooling, and feedback loops into Product and Engineering. Partner cross-functionally to prioritize roadmap, improve self-service, and drive operational discipline.

Lead technical execution and people management for multiple engineering pods (18 people). Set goals, shape roadmap with product and design, build scalable engineering processes, provide architectural oversight, drive technical excellence, and champion practical AI tooling adoption to improve developer velocity and product capability.

Lead a large engineering org to design and operate highly available, low-latency distributed backend services. Set technical roadmap, align across product clouds, hire and mentor engineers, drive SDLC excellence (CI/CD, automated testing, security), and participate in high-level design and architectural troubleshooting.

Lead and scale platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and DevSecOps teams; modernize CI/CD/GitOps pipelines; champion shift-left security; partner with Product, Data, AI, and Security to align engineering strategy with business priorities; establish enterprise tools and maintain secure, multi-cluster, multi-tenant platforms while fostering a high-performance engineering culture.

Lead strategy, design, and delivery of MarTech solutions for clients, focusing on CDPs, tag management, analytics, personalization, and integrations. Support business development, mentor technical consultants, drive innovation and thought leadership, and ensure scalable documentation, training, and repeatable architectures to improve customer experiences and measurable outcomes.

Lead and scale a Forward Deployed Engineering team embedding with enterprise customers to build production-grade AI-native workflows. Own delivery quality, stakeholder relationships, scoping, executive technical sponsorship, deal strategy, hiring, coaching, and partner enablement to ensure fast, repeatable, high-impact engagements.