Top Director of Engineering Jobs in Seattle, WA

Leads multiple engineering departments delivering an enterprise AI infrastructure platform across on-premises, public cloud, and accelerated-compute environments. Owns Kubernetes-based training and experimentation platforms, platform APIs, distributed workloads, GPU scheduling, security controls, observability, reliability, and operational excellence. Partners with senior leaders, manages engineering managers and teams, drives platform adoption and scalability, and builds a high-performing engineering organization.

Leads AWS-native application engineering initiatives across architecture, development, testing, deployment, and modernization. Sets technical direction, oversees multiple delivery workstreams, guides AI-enabled engineering practices, and develops scalable cloud solutions. Builds executive client relationships, shapes transformation roadmaps, supports business development, mentors engineering teams, and drives application performance, security, reliability, and cloud modernization across AWS and other major cloud platforms.

Leads CoreWeave’s multidisciplinary data center engineering organization and sets technical direction for its global portfolio. Governs Basis of Design documents, reference designs, standards, and long-term infrastructure roadmaps. Oversees integrated engineering across electrical, mechanical, civil, structural, architectural, controls, and life-safety disciplines; leads technical reviews, innovation, reliability, sustainability, supplier engagement, and resource planning. Partners with design, construction, commissioning, operations, technology, and supply chain teams to deliver scalable, high-density AI infrastructure.

Leads and mentors a product engineering organization, setting technical vision, strategy, roadmaps, and measurable goals. Partners with Product, Design, Data Science, Operations, and Engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable, secure, privacy-conscious products. Oversees distributed systems and product experiences, drives execution across strategic initiatives, develops engineering talent, hires leaders, and communicates priorities and risks to senior stakeholders.

Leads Deepgram’s GTM Engineering function, owning CRM, CPQ, forecasting, billing, data, integrations, automation, and internal tooling. Translates commercial needs into scalable systems and AI-powered workflows, establishes engineering standards, connects usage and revenue data, and partners with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Data teams. This player-coach role designs, codes, tests, ships production systems, and develops a small team while prioritizing automation and operational leverage.

Leads a globally distributed 130-person engineering organization responsible for Expedia’s experience platform. The role modernizes platform services, web and app infrastructure, CMS technologies, design systems, and configurable capabilities for the AI era. Responsibilities include setting engineering practices, guiding architecture and modernization, partnering with senior technical and product leaders, scaling organizational talent, and improving internal developer and product team experiences.

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 Salesforce’s DNS Engineering organization responsible for Tier-0 DNS, DHCP, IPAM, self-service APIs, cloud DNS, security, and resilience. Sets long-term strategy, owns availability and operational excellence, modernizes infrastructure across data centers and public clouds, and manages engineering leaders and teams. Oversees incident management, SLOs, migrations, automation, AI-assisted operations, security improvements, vendor relationships, and cross-functional partnerships. Requires deep DNS, distributed systems, cloud, infrastructure automation, and senior engineering leadership experience.

Leads globally distributed software engineering teams responsible for Axon’s core cloud infrastructure platform. Defines technical strategy and architecture across infrastructure as code, compute, networking, observability, reliability, security, and developer experience. Partners with Product, Security, and engineering leaders to deliver scalable systems and customer outcomes. Oversees engineering managers and technical leads, develops talent, drives AI-native engineering practices, and builds a culture of accountability, learning, and high performance.

Leads the mechanical, thermal, and EWIS engineering organization for X-BAT aircraft and ground avionics. Sets technical strategy, architecture, standards, and processes; builds and scales engineering teams; oversees flight-critical hardware from concept through production; manages suppliers and contract manufacturers; and partners across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and program leadership. Requires extensive hands-on mechanical design experience, senior people leadership, avionics expertise, and the ability to obtain a Secret clearance.

Leads approximately 35 engineers across data engineering, integration engineering, and integration support. Owns delivery predictability, manager development, operational reliability, SLA performance, data platform modernization, integration scalability, and organizational clarity. Partners with product, data science, commercial, and delivery teams while overseeing healthcare integrations with EHR systems, enterprise data infrastructure, incident management, and client-facing reliability commitments.

Leads global operational engineering for Microsoft’s datacenter portfolio, including reliability governance, engineering risk management, retrofit and modernization programs, incident escalation, technical standards, emergency procedures, and infrastructure remediation. Oversees power, cooling, controls, telecommunications, and building systems; partners with operations, design, construction, and executive teams; and manages a globally distributed organization of engineering leaders and subject matter experts.

Leads Okta’s Site Reliability Engineering organization supporting production SaaS services. Defines reliability strategy, builds scalable cloud infrastructure and platforms, drives automation, observability, incident response, post-incident improvement, and CI/CD maturity. Partners with engineering and product leaders, manages managers and global teams, hires and develops SRE talent, and advances Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud-native architecture, and self-service capabilities across AWS-hosted services.

Leads the Production and Infrastructure Engineering organization across DevOps, SRE, DevEx, MLOps, testing, and support. Responsibilities include hiring and developing engineers, setting priorities, managing delivery, guiding infrastructure and software decisions, improving cloud operations, CI/CD, observability, incident response, release readiness, and customer support. The role partners cross-functionally on technical commitments, security requirements, enterprise deployments, and operational reliability.

Leads the Production and Infrastructure Engineering organization across DevOps, SRE, DevEx, MLOps, infrastructure, testing, and support. Responsibilities include hiring and developing engineers, setting priorities, managing delivery, guiding technical decisions, overseeing cloud infrastructure and automation, improving reliability and incident response, ensuring release readiness, and coordinating cross-functional customer and stakeholder commitments. The role combines director-level people leadership with hands-on technical oversight of production software and platform operations.

Leads engineering strategy and a distributed, multi-team organization delivering consumer websites and mobile apps across nine real estate brands and 120 countries. Owns platform strategy, reliability, performance, SEO, experimentation, AI initiatives, budgets, vendors, and organizational design. Partners with executive leaders across Product, Design, Marketing, and brand teams while hiring, developing, and succession-planning engineering managers and senior engineers.

Leads engineering strategy, architecture, delivery, and organizational development for Agiloft’s Contract Intelligence portfolio. Oversees Astra Agents, Contract Intelligence Graph, shared cloud-native platforms, APIs, IAM, AI assistants, and integrations. Partners with Product, Design, Applied AI, and Operations to deliver secure, scalable, reliable customer-facing systems. Manages distributed engineering teams, develops leaders, establishes operational metrics, guides responsible AI practices, and remains hands-on in architecture, code reviews, and technical decisions.

Leads network engineering and digital technology strategy, major project and program portfolios, cybersecurity incident response, budgeting, quality processes, and technology operations. Develops digital capabilities, improves products and services, manages organizational performance, and builds talent through coaching and workforce development. Partners across the organization to execute strategic roadmaps, maintain legacy systems, improve customer-focused solutions, and deliver secure, scalable technology outcomes.

Lead Nexcess’s product engineering organization, owning architecture, delivery, roadmap, team structure, engineering-manager development, hiring, and production accountability. Improve delivery speed and reliability using DORA metrics, AI-assisted engineering, automated testing, observability, trunk-based development, feature flags, and incident management. Guide modernization of legacy Perl and PHP systems, billing and payment platforms, hosting products, and infrastructure migrations while partnering closely with Product and senior stakeholders.

Leads a team of 15–20 engineers and technicians, sets strategic direction for multiple product lines, and oversees product development from concept through production. Drives innovation, process improvements, cost reduction, tooling and equipment ROI, manufacturing challenges, engineering standards, and cross-functional alignment with sales, operations, marketing, and quality teams.

Lead engineering for Parento’s leave management, claims, employer and employee portals, internal tools, integrations, and databases. Build front-end mobile and web architecture, back-end applications, APIs, and responsive experiences while partnering with product, UX/UI, customers, and the CEO. Manage the engineering team, establish development processes, improve operational scalability, and directly contribute to programming and technical strategy.

Leads geographically distributed Business Analyst and Software Engineering teams delivering global enterprise Time and Pay solutions. Owns strategy, architecture, development, integrations, modernization, automation, quality, and operational performance across Oracle and ADP platforms. Partners with HR, Finance, vendors, and technology leaders to define roadmaps, address multinational payroll and workforce requirements, and deliver scalable solutions. Requires extensive enterprise application leadership, cloud, AI, systems integration, and transformation experience.

Leads enterprise software engineering, solution architecture, data and reporting strategy for business applications supporting Human Capital, Finance, Supply Chain, and workforce management. Establishes roadmaps, engineering standards, governance, architecture, quality practices, and secure reporting capabilities. Directs cross-functional delivery, prioritization, lifecycle improvements, stakeholder alignment, and organizational development while hiring and managing engineering leaders and teams.

Leads the engineering organization responsible for F5’s OpenTelemetry-based AI Data Fabric. Owns the platform’s strategy, roadmap, architecture, reliability, security, privacy, cost efficiency, vendor relationships, and multi-cloud expansion. Builds and develops engineering managers, drives predictable delivery, establishes SLOs, oversees incident response, and ensures data quality and platform contracts support AI/ML, analytics, data engineering, and catalog teams.

Leads platform engineering strategy across Azure infrastructure, legacy Windows Server workloads, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, reliability, identity, security, cost optimization, and engineering tooling. Builds and develops a platform engineering team while overseeing tenant consolidation, modernization, observability, incident response, and developer self-service. Partners with Security and Compliance to support sensitive and regulated data environments.