Top Director of Engineering Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Directs the engineering organization, including organizational design, leadership development, hiring, delivery operations, production excellence, technical execution, enterprise readiness, security, AI governance, budgeting, and executive strategy. Partners with the CTO and cross-functional leaders to scale engineering from approximately 30 to 75 employees while maintaining product velocity, reliability, compliance, and quality.

Leads the multidisciplinary Integrated Sensor engineering organization across hardware, embedded and edge software, cloud platforms, and distributed systems. Sets technical strategy, architecture, engineering standards, and product delivery processes while scaling reliable systems for nationwide field deployment. Responsibilities include recruiting and developing engineering leaders, coordinating hardware and software development, improving testing and operational resilience, resolving field issues, and partnering with Product, Deployment, Data Science, and company leadership.

Leads the ISSI platform engineering organization, owning strategy, execution, budgets, staffing, roadmaps, technical standards, and delivery across multiple teams. Manages engineering leaders, individual contributors, and offshore vendors while partnering with executives on priorities and outcomes. Oversees scalable, secure software delivery, architecture governance, hiring, performance management, process improvement, and adoption of emerging technologies including generative AI.

Leads the strategy, architecture, development, and operations of Temporal’s large-scale, multi-tenant compute platform. Builds and manages a high-ownership engineering team, drives roadmap execution, reliability, incident response, capacity planning, fleet utilization, cost efficiency, and customer alignment. Guides distributed-systems decisions involving workload isolation, security, scheduling, resource management, performance, virtualization, serverless infrastructure, and future accelerated GPU compute.

Leads financial systems engineering for a service-contract business. Owns reconciliation systems, invoicing logic, financial data models, revenue recognition controls, and audit reporting. Manages SQL and dbt models, automated validations, exception resolution, merchant configuration audits, and cross-functional escalations across Engineering, Finance, Accounting, and Revenue teams. Leads individual contributors and develops the team as business needs evolve.

Leads the hands-on development and scaling of Oasis’s healthcare software platform. Responsibilities include architecture, production coding, AWS infrastructure, DevSecOps, AI-native workflows, external system integrations, reliability, observability, compliance, roadmap execution, and recruiting a high-performing engineering team. The role begins primarily as an individual contributor and evolves into player-coach leadership while delivering patient- and provider-facing applications.

Leads the Insurance Product Configuration and Enrollment Platform Core, managing engineering managers and 20–30 engineers. Owns technical vision, distributed systems architecture, delivery commitments, operational excellence, testing strategy, partner implementations, and cross-team interfaces. Develops engineering leaders, manages hiring and vendors, and drives adoption of AI-augmented development tools and practices. Ensures scalable, secure, reliable platform services while balancing contractual delivery dates with long-term platform maintainability.

Lead strategy, engineering, implementation, and operations of enterprise OT telemetry platforms. Ensure availability, security, scalability, and standardization of telemetry services; integrate OT data sources with enterprise and cloud platforms; build and mentor engineering teams; establish operational processes, monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and lifecycle management; evaluate vendor technologies and maintain technical documentation.

Leads approximately 30 employees through engineering leaders to build and unify a high-volume eCommerce platform across multiple brands. Owns architecture, roadmap, delivery, reliability, cost, customer experience, KPIs, and SLAs. Partners with Product, UX, business stakeholders, and customers while remaining technically hands-on through design reviews, coding, architecture decisions, and engineering standards. Oversees quoting, ordering, catalog, pricing, inventory, fulfillment, order status, AI applications, and customer project experiences.

Own and shape a unified eCommerce engineering platform across multiple brands. Lead approximately 30 employees through engineering leaders, oversee quoting, ordering, catalog, inventory, fulfillment, order status, and customer projects, and unify WWT and Softchoice teams. Set technical direction, remain hands-on in architecture and code reviews, introduce AI-native practices, establish KPIs and SLAs, and partner with Product, UX, business stakeholders, and customers to deliver reliable, scalable digital commerce experiences.

Leads North American electrical engineering and design for data center development projects. Oversees strategic planning, technical standards, design documents, construction and commissioning support, QA/QC, vendors, budgets, schedules, and multi-project delivery. Manages and develops electrical engineering teams while collaborating with operations, sales, marketing, consultants, contractors, and executives. Requires extensive electrical design and construction expertise, data center experience, knowledge of power distribution and critical infrastructure systems, and 15–25% travel.

Leads engineering operations across DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure, security operations, QA, CI/CD, and observability. Owns organizational strategy, technical architecture, budgets, cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, security compliance, incident response, SRE practices, testing automation, and developer experience. Establishes reliability and productivity metrics, improves deployment velocity, manages engineering teams, and partners with executives and cross-functional stakeholders to scale secure, resilient systems.

Leads electrical engineering design and delivery for data center projects, covering LV, MV, and HV systems, power distribution, backup power, grounding, controls, white-space infrastructure, and construction support. Establishes design standards, reviews designs and submittals, supports equipment selection and troubleshooting, coordinates stakeholders, and develops a team of electrical engineers. Requires extensive experience with mission-critical or large-scale projects and strong knowledge of electrical codes and power systems.

Leads and grows the engineering organization, sets technical strategy and roadmap, oversees execution across multiple teams, and provides technical direction on architecture, scalability, reliability, security, and quality. Partners with Product, Design, Operations, Risk, and the CTO to deliver customer-focused financial products. Responsibilities include recruiting and developing engineering leaders, improving processes, removing organizational bottlenecks, and balancing product delivery with long-term platform and infrastructure investments.

Lead and execute the Payments Platform vision: own strategy, architecture, and roadmap for payment processing, routing, settlement, reconciliation and partner integrations. Build and grow engineering managers and senior engineers, drive platform reliability, observability, security, and scalability, set OKRs, manage cross-functional delivery, and align technology with business, product, risk and compliance outcomes.

Lead and scale engineering teams building Airwallex's global Payments Platform. Define architecture and roadmap for payment processing, routing, settlement, reconciliation, and partner integrations. Drive reliability, observability, security, and developer productivity. Manage Engineering Managers, set OKRs, coordinate cross-functionally with Product, Risk, Compliance, and regional teams to deliver high-quality, business-aligned outcomes.

Leads Re:Build’s Forward Deployed Engineering team, hiring and developing engineers who deliver full-stack digital solutions across manufacturing sites and functions. Partners with stakeholders to prioritize opportunities, guides technical delivery, establishes engineering standards, builds reusable delivery assets, measures solution impact, and promotes AI-assisted development tools. Requires strong software engineering, customer-facing delivery, people leadership, DevSecOps, Agile/SAFe, and cross-functional program management experience. The role includes approximately 25% domestic travel to customer sites.

Leads the Create Core platform engineering team, overseeing roadmap delivery, architecture, developer experience, accessibility, platform adoption, and technical quality. Manages 4–8 engineers, partners with Product and application teams, guides system design and code reviews, and develops a high-performing team through hiring, coaching, and performance management. The role requires experience with cloud-first web platforms, AWS architecture, modern JavaScript technologies, Agile development, and cross-functional technical leadership.

Lead and grow a core engineering team, own end-to-end product delivery, stay hands-on with code and architecture, establish engineering best practices, work directly with enterprise customers, and help shape AI/LLM-driven features.

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.

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 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.

Leads engineering strategy, architecture, reliability, delivery practices, and vendor selection across Axios products, platforms, workflows, and internal systems. Develops engineering managers and senior technical leaders, strengthens planning and quality, aligns engineering capacity with business priorities, and partners with executive, product, design, newsroom, and business stakeholders. The role also drives AI adoption in software development and defines engineering standards, benchmarks, and operating practices.