Top Director of Engineering Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Lead engineering execution and organizational capability for a cloud-based PMS. Drive predictable delivery, platform reliability, modernization, AI-enabled developer productivity, standardized practices, and cross-business platform strategy while growing and developing engineering teams.

Define and operationalize company-wide engineering design standards for aerospace programs (VBAT, XBAT). Standardize CAD, drawing quality, design/analysis workflows, documentation, EBOM/MBOM handoffs, and configuration management. Partner with engineering leaders to scale engineering excellence, influence cross-discipline design decisions, and improve consistency without blocking execution.

Lead a small infrastructure engineering team to own cloud infrastructure, backend services, website, CI/CD, observability, and developer tooling. Set technical direction, improve reliability, scalability, security, and engineering effectiveness, drive incident readiness and operational practices, partner with product and business stakeholders, hire and mentor engineers, and balance long-term investments with fast-moving product needs.

Lead and grow a product-oriented software engineering team to design, own, and deliver Fervo's internal application architecture and production apps. Work embedded with operations to build workflows, dashboards, integrations, and AI-enabled features; define standards (CI/CD, observability, security); and manage vendor and data-platform integrations to scale software supporting geothermal operations.

Lead design and implementation of real-time, high-concurrency backend systems for live game experiences. Define architecture, SLOs, capacity planning, incident response, and resilience patterns; advise leadership; solve distributed-systems challenges; mentor senior engineers and raise engineering quality across teams.

The Director of Production Support Engineering will lead a team, manage production environments, ensure reliability, develop strategic roadmaps, and oversee AI integration within Salesforce's infrastructure.

The Senior Director, Software Engineering will lead architecture and design, manage engineering teams, and drive adoption of platform standards while ensuring high-quality software delivery across Lilly's systems.

The Sr. Director of Engineering will develop strategies for product areas, mentor engineers, drive innovation, and ensure best practices in software quality and systems performance.

The Director of Engineering for Payments will lead teams to develop a cross-product payment platform, ensuring operational excellence, security, and integration for various products while managing strategy and engineering leadership.

The Director of Engineering will lead the Control Planes & Ecosystem Group, shaping strategies for control plane experiences, scaling teams, and driving ecosystem growth in cloud-native environments.

Lead Data & Integrations Engineering to enhance healthcare integration and data platforms. Manage delivery processes, team development, operational excellence, and cross-functional partnerships.

Lead and mentor engineering teams to build enterprise-grade multi-tenant SaaS/PaaS distributed applications. Drive architecture, feature delivery, SRE/process improvements, AI-driven engineering productivity, customer-facing support, and agile release practices while balancing tech debt and product ROI.

The Director of Engineering will lead modernization initiatives by managing engineering teams, overseeing code quality, and ensuring zero disruption to customers during transitions.

Lead and own Arcade's mission-critical commerce and operations platform: architect scalable microservices and APIs, manage order fulfillment and pricing engines, build reliable GPU inference infrastructure for image generation, and provide client SDK/integration layers. Work with executive and product leadership to ensure reliability, scalability, and maintainability as the system scales to millions of users.

The Director of Software Engineering will lead an engineering team, drive product development, and manage team performance. Responsibilities include architectural decisions, recruitment, and ensuring product quality while maintaining agility.

Lead the Riverscapes and Shorelines Engineering Group delivering ecological restoration and environmental design projects. Provide technical oversight of designs, construction documents, hydraulics analyses, and construction support. Manage and mentor engineering staff, oversee project budgets/schedules, develop scopes, and coordinate interdisciplinary teams. Drive regional business development, represent WRA at conferences, and support strategic planning for the team.

Lead and scale engineering teams building Protect, a real-time multi-signal fraud detection platform. Set technical strategy, develop managers and senior engineers, deliver distributed systems and APIs, improve architecture, observability, reliability, and developer productivity while partnering with Product, Research, Security, and exec stakeholders.

Lead Forward Deployed Engineering for strategic enterprise accounts: translate executive requirements into prototypes and production, own delivery and handoffs, grow and hire FDE teams, maintain enterprise security and data governance, partner across product, sales, and platform, and embed AI experimentation and governance into FDE workstreams.

Lead engineering for Partner Experience across Partner Acquisition & Delivery and Partner Reporting & Insights. Own team health, technical strategy, delivery velocity, and AI-native engineering adoption. Partner with product leadership on roadmap, coach engineering managers, drive architecture and resourcing decisions, and measure AI-augmented velocity while delivering partner onboarding, quoting, lead delivery, and reporting systems.

Lead engineering strategy and delivery for MyPresidio.com. Own web platform architecture, performance, scalability, reliability and SLAs. Set technical roadmap, drive agile delivery and budgets, oversee integrations and backend systems, manage engineering operating model and contractors, troubleshoot incidents, and represent web technology to executives to align engineering investments with business goals.

Lead and grow cross-functional mobile and backend engineering teams, define and execute architecture and engineering standards, ensure secure, scalable mobile-backend integration, drive CI/CD, observability, and best practices, mentor engineering leaders, and partner with Product, Design, and AI to deliver high-quality, customer-centric healthcare applications.

The Director of Software Engineering will lead a multi-functional team, oversee technical design, architect solutions for a SaaS platform, and ensure compliance with security standards.

Lead and grow the product engineering team, strengthen engineering processes and culture, operationalize AI across the SDLC, own governance for agentic systems, set architectural direction, partner cross-functionally, and drive hiring and team development.

The Director of Software Engineering will lead teams in creating innovative education tech solutions, strategic planning, and optimizing software delivery processes.

Lead and grow a high-performing platform engineering team to build Icario's next-generation healthcare platform. Provide technical direction, enforce engineering best practices, drive operational excellence, collaborate on product roadmaps, and ensure reliable CI/CD and cloud-based delivery to meet tight schedules and customer needs.