Top Director of Engineering Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Lead global infrastructure strategy and engineering for cloud, networking, identity, endpoint, and datacenter platforms. Drive cloud-first, automation-first, and AI-enabled operations, ensure security and compliance, manage teams and vendors, and oversee disaster recovery, resilience, and operational excellence to support worldwide business operations.

Lead technical strategy and execution for large-scale indexing and retrieval infrastructure across Core, Ads, and Shopping. Drive architecture modernization, cross-org alignment, shared platform capabilities, mentoring, and use of AI to accelerate design, prototyping, and operational excellence.

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.

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.

Owns Azure cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, GitOps, secrets management, databases, data warehouses, observability, and reliability. Leads AI-assisted infrastructure engineering standards and practices, manages and mentors engineers and engineering managers, contributes hands-on to architecture, coding, incident response, and platform improvements, and partners with Security and Corporate IT.

Lead and grow the Marketplace engineering organization building consumer and partner-facing marketplace products, integrations, pricing and fulfillment tools. Set technical and product strategy, drive architecture and platform decisions, manage technical debt, partner with product, and create operating rhythms to scale a high-velocity engineering organization.

Lead and mentor a software engineering team to build and maintain a data platform for protein engineering, utilizing Python and cloud technologies.

Lead the Site Reliability Engineering team by establishing the vision, mentoring members, ensuring operational excellence, and collaborating on infrastructure and tooling.

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.

Lead strategy and delivery for enterprise software engineering and systems integration. Set architecture and engineering standards, manage multi-team portfolios, drive CI/CD, observability, security and operational excellence, oversee budgets and vendors, and develop senior technical management to deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.

Lead the strategy and execution of member-facing web and mobile engineering, advocate tooling, and contact-center platforms. Drive AI initiatives including Agent Assist, virtual assistants, IVR automation, conversational analytics, and contact deflection. Own CCaaS migration, digital experience delivery, security, privacy, reliability, and regulatory commitments. Build and mentor engineering leadership, partner cross-functionally, manage vendors, and report outcomes to executives using metrics such as contact reduction, cost-to-serve, satisfaction, and resolution rates.

Leads UBC’s Platform Development team, overseeing software architecture, application delivery, platform modernization, and engineering standards. Manages architects, development managers, and software engineers while guiding SDLC practices, Agile delivery, CI/CD, testing, deployment, documentation, security, and operational support. Defines enterprise platform roadmaps involving APIs, workflow orchestration, integrations, event-driven architecture, data systems, and AI-enabled automation. Partners with Information Security and Enterprise Architecture to deliver scalable, secure solutions in an FDA-regulated environment.

Lead strategic build-versus-buy engineering initiatives within Elastic’s IT organization. Design and deliver internal platforms using Elasticsearch, Kibana, Elastic ML, AI, and cloud technologies across developer productivity, FinOps, IT service management, and enterprise efficiency. Establish architecture and engineering standards, partner cross-functionally with IT, Security, Platform Engineering, Finance, and other teams, and validate Elastic products through internal production systems.

Leads multiple engineering teams responsible for platform, infrastructure, identity, observability, reliability, and foundational architecture. Sets technical strategy, roadmap, standards, and architectural direction while ensuring predictable delivery, security, quality, scalability, and operational excellence. Partners with Product, Security, CloudOps, and other leaders; develops engineering directors, managers, and senior technical staff; and drives talent strategy, modernization, developer productivity, and executive communication.

Lead and grow platform, cloud, and DevSecOps teams to modernize delivery pipelines, implement CI/CD and GitOps, ensure secure, multi-cluster platform operations, align engineering strategy with business priorities, and establish an enterprise tools team supporting Linear, Notion, and ITSM.

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.

Lead and transform the QA function for an AI-accelerated software organization. Define technical quality strategy, CI/CD gates, test-data approaches for PHI, and automation across unit, integration, and end-to-end testing. Build and grow a high-performing quality engineering team, set release standards and exit criteria, integrate AI/LLM evaluation with MLEs, and provide auditable metrics for leadership and regulators.

Leads a 35-person mechanical engineering discipline, overseeing engineering operations, programs, project delivery, staff development, client relationships, business development, financial performance, and commercial growth. Manages 6–7 direct reports, supports proposals and contracts, guides program managers, ensures project quality and timelines, and drives continuous improvement. The role requires extensive A/E/C experience, a Professional Engineer license, commercial multi-site program expertise, and strong leadership and client-facing skills.

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 MaintainX's Platform division and manage managers across seven teams (AI Builder, DevOps, Compliance, Testing, Backend, Mobile, SRE). Own roadmap, reliability (SLOs, incident response), engineering standards, AI-native platform strategy, and cross-team priorities. Partner with executives on org design, architecture, and headcount while representing platform investment to the business.

You will lead engineering teams, develop managers, hire staff, drive quality, and ensure disciplined processes while representing products to stakeholders.

Lead and grow an enterprise implementation engineering team delivering mission-critical integrations (voice AI, call routing, emergency services). Stay hands-on coding and architecting solutions, engage with customers, improve onboarding velocity, collaborate across Product/Engineering/Customer Success, manage budget/vendors, and establish operational rigor and on-call coverage.

Lead multiple global engineering teams to deliver cloud-native SaaS products. Set technical strategy, drive DevOps/CI/CD practices, recruit and mentor leaders, align engineering with product and business goals, and manage budgets and KPIs.

Lead the technical arm of Revenue Operations: build and run the revenue data platform, automation for pipeline generation, quote-to-sign and deal economics, board/internal revenue reporting, and product-launch rails. Manage a small engineering team, set architecture and data standards, own reconciled quarterly closes, and partner with Sales, CS, Finance, Product, and Eng to operationalize pricing, billing, and reporting.

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.