Hybrid Senior Director of Engineering

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About the role

  • Senior Director of Engineering leading multiple product lines and building a strong engineering team in Bengaluru. Ensuring high-quality, reliable, and scalable product delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Lead multiple product lines and translate strategic vision into execution.
  • Build a high-performing engineering organization.
  • Ensure delivery of scalable, reliable, and high-impact products.
  • Develop strong engineering leaders and foster a culture of ownership, urgency, and customer focus.
  • Own the delivery of major product areas and platforms.
  • Translate company strategy into actionable engineering plans.
  • Drive improvements in engineering velocity, operational consistency, and technical excellence across teams.
  • Lead modernization initiatives while balancing innovation with technical debt management.
  • Provide architectural direction and technical oversight.
  • Champion performance, scalability, security-by-design, and system resiliency.
  • Guide design reviews and technical discussions.
  • Manage budgets, headcount planning, and vendor/tooling strategy.
  • Hire, mentor, and retain top engineering talent.
  • Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and GTM teams to deliver aligned business outcomes.

Requirements

  • 15 years of experience in engineering
  • 10+ years of engineering experience, including 7–10 years in engineering management
  • Experience managing multiple managers and leading organizations of 35+ engineers
  • Proven ownership of large-scale product or platform domains with measurable customer or business impact
  • Extensive experience leading India-based engineering organizations within distributed global teams
  • Strong understanding of hiring, retention, and leadership development in India
  • Experience managing budgets, organizational planning, and scaling teams
  • Strong experience with database engine implementation and database systems architecture
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud computing, and large-scale architectures
  • Expertise in performance optimization, high availability, low latency, and massive throughput systems
  • Experience with storage systems, replication protocols, metadata management, and persistence layers
  • Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and DevOps practices
  • Experience with NoSQL and relational database technologies.
  • Executive-level communication skills (written, asynchronous, and verbal)
  • Demonstrated ability to influence and align stakeholders across regions and functions
  • Strong track record of working effectively with cross-geography teams.

Job title

Senior Director of Engineering

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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