Top Director of Engineering Jobs in Seattle, WA

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.

Provides technical and people leadership for forensic investigations of damaged building structures and mechanical and electrical systems. Conducts site inspections, analyzes materials and environmental factors, interprets building codes, and prepares defensible technical reports. Reviews consultants’ work, manages project scope and budgets, coordinates clients and site visits, mentors engineers, and supports business development. The role is fully remote but requires field work and travel up to 50%.

Leads the platform development organization, including software engineering, architecture, platform modernization, cloud adoption, AI-enabled capabilities, and enterprise solution delivery. Establishes development standards, SDLC readiness gates, CI/CD workflows, security practices, and continuous improvement initiatives. Oversees architects, managers, and software engineers while managing resources, risks, and escalations. Requires extensive Microsoft technology, Azure, software architecture, regulated-environment validation, and people leadership experience.

Leads enterprise stability and resilience engineering teams and capabilities. Builds software engineering standards, automation, governance, and reusable controls that improve reliability, recoverability, security, scalability, performance, and customer outcomes. Maps customer journeys and technology dependencies, drives resilience-by-design across the engineering lifecycle, establishes reliability and performance practices, and influences executive leaders on multi-year modernization strategies.

Leads a 60-person engineering organization, managing seven engineering managers and owning delivery, staffing, organizational health, manager development, operating strategy, technical roadmap, and AI adoption. Establishes engineering KPIs using Linear, DORA, and reliability metrics; improves delivery predictability and system reliability; guides architecture and capacity allocation; and ships production AI or agentic initiatives with standards for security, cost, observability, and reliability.

Leads engineering standards, architecture governance, platform strategy, technical quality, security and compliance engineering, and production AI governance across CSL Plasma’s digital products. Manages cross-domain technical teams, sets cloud and integration direction, owns shared engineering platforms and data architecture, and ensures reliable, scalable, regulated software delivery. The role also drives AI-assisted development, production AI operations, engineering metrics, talent development, and alignment with enterprise architecture and cybersecurity.

Lead engineering teams responsible for Life360’s critical platforms, including location and messaging, cloud infrastructure, identity, and partner ecosystems. Set technical direction, modernize legacy systems, improve reliability and scalability, establish engineering metrics, and develop engineering managers and technical leaders. Partner with Product, Security, Data, and Engineering leadership to align technical investments with business outcomes while supporting secure, high-performing systems serving millions of users.

Leads data engineering teams while designing and optimizing scalable batch and real-time data pipelines on cloud platforms. Responsibilities include developing PySpark and Spark workflows, orchestrating Airflow DAGs, managing cloud infrastructure, implementing CI/CD, improving data quality and performance, and mentoring engineers. The role collaborates with clients, product, architecture, and program management teams, while applying generative AI and DevOps practices to improve engineering productivity and operational efficiency.

Leads platform engineering across learner and enterprise products, setting architecture direction, integrating AI and data capabilities, managing engineering managers and teams, and improving quality, reliability, security, accessibility, and delivery. Partners with product, design, IT, cloud operations, sales, and executives on strategy, planning, budgets, and enterprise SaaS outcomes.

Leads the Platform Services organization, managing teams that build internal developer tooling, shared engineering services, golden-path templates, development environments, and AI-assisted development capabilities. Owns platform strategy, service reliability, security, adoption, productivity measurement, and consolidation of duplicated services. Partners with infrastructure and delivery teams, manages budgets and roadmaps, recruits and develops engineering leaders, and drives organizational change and engineering excellence.

Leads the global Engineering Standards & Safety function for mission-critical data centers. Establishes engineering standards, operating boundaries, asset-acceptance criteria, safety requirements, control and alarm philosophies, and technical risk-acceptance governance. Oversees multidisciplinary engineering teams, validates technical methods, collaborates with regional operations and construction stakeholders, monitors standards adoption, and escalates systemic risks. The role also manages resources, budgets, workforce planning, senior stakeholder communication, and global technical governance across electrical, mechanical, controls, fire, and life-safety disciplines.

Lead Attentive’s cloud platform organization, overseeing AWS infrastructure, Snowflake and centralized data platforms, database infrastructure, DevOps, and cloud cost optimization. Set technical strategy, improve reliability and operational standards, lead migrations, build self-service developer workflows, and develop engineering managers and technical leaders. Partner across Engineering, Product, Finance, and Developer Experience to improve infrastructure efficiency, scalability, security, and delivery speed.

Leads a hands-on software engineering organization developing AI-enabled legal automation platforms. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, reviewing architecture and code, owning delivery and platform reliability, managing distributed teams, translating legal workflow requirements into scalable systems, and partnering with product, legal operations, executives, vendors, and clients. The role requires oversight of multi-tenant security, AI capabilities, Agile delivery, hiring, mentoring, and engineering quality.

Lead the Fan Experience engineering team building consumer-facing ticket discovery and purchasing features across web and mobile. This hands-on role involves coding, mentoring, hiring, owning the engineering roadmap, improving velocity through AI tools and internal platforms, partnering with Product and Design, managing technical risks and debt, and delivering measurable marketplace outcomes. The manager will guide full-stack architecture, experimentation, quality, and cross-team technical initiatives.

Leads solution engineering and customer support operations for a digital health data platform. Responsibilities include building distributed engineering and support teams, leading technical pre-sales, designing customer data solutions, managing architecture and handoffs, owning post-launch support and incident resolution, establishing SLAs and operational metrics, overseeing vendors and budgets, and partnering with Product and Platform Engineering to improve reliability and reduce support demand.

Leads software development, QA, and DevOps for a digital insurance platform. Owns engineering roadmaps, delivery governance, architecture, code quality, security, testing, release reliability, and operational improvement. Manages and develops a small engineering team, partners with product and business stakeholders, evaluates technical risks, and guides responsible AI-assisted development. The role requires hands-on technical judgment across modern application architecture, Azure cloud services, CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, and secure software delivery.

Leads and builds VulcanForms’ Applications Engineering function, connecting customer requirements to manufacturing capabilities. Responsibilities include hiring and developing the team, establishing feasibility and requirements processes, qualifying opportunities, overseeing design concepts, documenting technical constraints, supporting proposals and strategic pursuits, and translating customer needs for product development and manufacturing teams. The role requires extensive additive manufacturing expertise, technical sales leadership, customer relationship skills, and experience with manufacturing costs and pricing.

Leads multiple software engineering teams supporting claims and other technology areas. Responsibilities include hiring and mentoring staff, budgeting, roadmap planning, architecture, hands-on delivery, security and compliance, performance optimization, modernization, CI/CD, technical strategy, and executive communication. The role requires driving scalable distributed systems, cloud transformation, operational excellence, and adoption of engineering best practices.

Leads a 40-person distributed systems engineering organization responsible for Elasticsearch scalability, performance, resilience, architecture, and Serverless capabilities. Develops long-term strategy, oversees complex cross-team initiatives, manages engineering managers and senior technical leaders, drives hiring and organizational planning, resolves critical operational issues, and communicates priorities to executives. Requires deep distributed systems expertise, large-scale software engineering experience, strong operational judgment, and proven organizational leadership.

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.

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 Enterprise Platform and Integrations engineering team, including people management, API strategy, partner integrations, technical roadmaps, and operational excellence. Establishes scalable API standards, reusable integration patterns, security and observability practices, and reliable delivery processes. Partners with Product, Operations, Security, Sales, and external partners to deliver complex integrations, improve platform reliability, and support AI-agent access to business capabilities.

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 Data Products engineering pillar, owning clinical data ingestion, canonical modeling, pipeline scalability, observability, and enterprise reporting foundations. Manages engineering teams and cross-functional delivery while advancing AI-assisted software development practices. The role requires building reliable, scalable data platforms for regulated healthcare environments, improving data quality and readiness, and translating technical strategy into business outcomes.