Top Director of Engineering Jobs in Seattle, WA

Lead Remitly’s App Platform organization, owning native mobile platforms, build and release systems, local development, client infrastructure, and developer tooling. Set technical direction, improve engineering velocity, run platform experiments, maintain reliability and quality standards, and hire and develop senior engineering leaders. The role requires hands-on engagement with platform tools, executive-level technical judgment, and fluency with AI-native developer tooling.

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 the Money Platform engineering organization to deliver reliable, secure systems for moving funds. Set technical direction, grow leaders and principal engineers, ensure operational excellence and correctness, ship platform capabilities with strong developer experience, and design for an agentic future while engaging as a technical peer to senior engineers and executives.

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.

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.

The Senior Director of Engineering leads engineering strategy, mentors teams, oversees project delivery, collaborates with stakeholders, and champions best practices for operational excellence.

Lead DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL: own strategy, architecture, reliability, scalability, and AI-native integration. Build hyperscaler-grade reliability, scale Advanced Edition for large workloads, partner across Product/GTM/SRE, and grow a high-performing global engineering organization.

Lead and scale a multi-functional platform engineering organization (SRE, Operations, Data & AI Platform, Database Engineering). Own the cloud platform and infrastructure-as-product, drive multi-quarter initiatives to improve developer velocity and reliability, solve scalability and system reliability problems, partner with product and engineering leaders, manage vendors and cost governance, and raise engineering quality and operational excellence.

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.

The Director of Engineering will lead platform engineering strategy and teams, enhancing developer experience, driving AI integration, and establishing governance for development practices.

Leads a large, multidisciplinary engineering organization responsible for enterprise analytics platforms supporting healthcare applications, AI products, search, translation, and text summarization. Owns engineering strategy, architecture, code quality, platform modernization, reliability, scalability, observability, and cost efficiency. Partners with Data Science, Product, Analytics, and Architecture teams while mentoring leaders and communicating technical strategy to stakeholders.

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.

Leads multiple product engineering squads, owning delivery, architecture, technical priorities, production quality, security, scalability, staffing, hiring, retention, performance management, and team health. Partners with Product and cross-functional stakeholders to align engineering work with business goals, resolve delivery blockers, improve processes and tooling, and manage major technical decisions. Requires hands-on experience with demanding architectures and the ability to work across React, Python, AWS, and MongoDB technology stacks.

Lead and develop motor engineering team, drive motor technology strategy, oversee end-to-end motor development, collaborate with suppliers and engineering teams, ensure optimal performances and manufacturability of motor systems.

Leads software engineering strategy, architecture, solution delivery, quality, testing, performance, and continuous improvement across a healthcare technology portfolio. Builds and develops diverse engineering teams, manages managers and individual contributors, drives data-informed decisions, aligns cross-functional roadmaps, and ensures resilient, supportable solutions that improve caregiver experiences and meet business objectives.

Leads engineering strategy and performance across multiple manufacturing business units and substrates. Responsibilities include developing engineering leaders, prioritizing initiatives, improving uptime, throughput, yield, reliability, and manufacturing readiness, standardizing engineering practices, supporting capital projects, and resolving complex technical and operational issues. The role partners with Operations, Quality, Maintenance, EH&S, Supply Chain, Finance, and other stakeholders to drive enterprise manufacturing performance and capability.

Leads the software engineering organization responsible for scalable, reliable applications and systems integrating hardware, embedded software, edge computing, cloud infrastructure, and machine learning. Sets technical strategy, develops engineering leaders, drives product delivery, establishes engineering standards, and ensures operational excellence across national-scale deployments. Partners with Product, Deployment, Data Science, and executive leadership to align roadmaps, resolve risks, and build high-performing distributed teams.

Lead and scale a Support Engineering function for Ashby across the Americas. Own vision, operating model, escalation/triage standards, reporting, tooling, and cross-functional feedback with Product and Engineering. Manage a Support Engineering Manager, drive hiring and career paths, and use data to reduce recurring technical friction while balancing immediate customer resolution with durable product improvements.

Lead and grow Proof’s IT Engineering team while transforming corporate IT from reactive help desk support into an engineering-first function. Own the strategy and roadmap for identity, access, endpoints, SaaS, vendors, procurement, and budgeting. Mentor engineers, implement infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, GitOps, automation, and AI-driven operations, reduce ticket volume through root-cause fixes, and partner with InfoSec on security and compliance.

Leads architecture, development, and optimization of global Order-to-Cash revenue systems. Builds DBT/SQL pipelines, automated revenue recognition and reconciliation workflows, ERP and billing integrations, and testing and deployment frameworks supporting ASC 606 compliance. Partners with Finance, Accounting, Data Infrastructure, and Engineering teams during high-volume operations and month-end close. Drives AI-enabled revenue automation, integration modernization, technical standards, and team mentorship.

Lead multiple platform engineering teams to build scalable, high-volume SaaS infrastructure for security products. Drive technical roadmap, SRE and developer-experience best practices, integrate AI tooling, hire and coach managers, measure engineering performance, and partner with product and architecture to deliver iterative customer value.

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.

Lead engineering strategy, architecture, AI-native product development, execution, hiring, and organizational growth. Partner with the CEO, leadership, and Product to build technical roadmaps, establish AI-assisted development and evaluation practices, improve infrastructure and engineering quality, and maintain delivery accountability. This hands-on leadership role requires coding credibility, product collaboration, talent development, cross-functional communication, and ownership of engineering metrics, culture, and technical direction.

Lead senior engineering teams responsible for ZoomInfo’s operational and analytical data platforms. Set strategy, architecture, and roadmaps for Bigtable, BigQuery, ingestion pipelines, CDC systems, reliability, scalability, observability, and compliant customer data deletion. Manage technical leaders, develop engineering talent, prioritize competing initiatives, and partner with executives, product, legal, compliance, security, and downstream engineering teams to accelerate data onboarding and maintain platform integrity.

Leads capital engineering projects across manufacturing and supply chain facilities, from concept through commissioning and startup. Directs industrial automation, PLC/HMI/SCADA modernization, manufacturing systems integration, digital manufacturing, reliability improvements, and OT cybersecurity implementation. Partners with plant, IT, cybersecurity, maintenance, suppliers, and integrators to deliver secure, scalable solutions, improve operational performance, and maintain engineering standards across multiple locations.