Top Director of Engineering Jobs in Seattle, WA

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 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.

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

Lead the Data Products engineering pillar owning technical strategy, clinical data ingestion, canonical modeling, and scalability. Manage ingestion pipelines, customer onboarding, data hygiene, observability, and enterprise reporting. Drive AI-augmented SDLC adoption, ensure regulatory compliance (HIPAA, SOC 2), hire and mentor engineering leaders, and partner with product and data science to deliver a stable, scalable clinical data platform that supports multi-customer growth and clinical insight generation.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Lead and scale core cloud and bare-metal infrastructure including SRE, global and HPC networking, and distributed storage. Define SLOs/SLAs, incident response, observability, and IaC. Architect InfiniBand/RoCE networks and high-performance storage to support large GPU workloads. Hire and mentor managers and senior ICs, partner with product and program teams to forecast capacity and drive reliability, throughput, and low-latency infrastructure at scale.

The Director of Protein Engineering will lead the FUSE team, managing scientists and advancing yeast display platforms, ensuring effective drug discovery for cancer treatments.

Lead strategy and delivery for enterprise software engineering and systems integration. Set architecture and engineering standards, manage multi-team portfolios, drive CI/CD, observability, security and operational excellence, oversee budgets and vendors, and develop senior technical management to deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.

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.

The Software Engineering Director will lead the development of IonQ's quantum cloud platform, directing API design, managing cross-functional projects, and aligning technology initiatives with business goals.

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.

You will lead engineering teams, develop managers, hire staff, drive quality, and ensure disciplined processes while representing products to stakeholders.

Lead Engineering strategy, architecture, and execution for a B2B SaaS aviation maintenance product. Build and mentor a high-performing team, manage cloud deployments, ensure scalability and security, and serve as technical representative on the Information Security Team and ISMS implementation.

Lead a global manufacturing engineering organization to standardize processes, drive lean continuous improvement, deploy automation and Industry 4.0 solutions (cobots, ML), and ensure safety, traceability, and zero-defect customer quality across international sites.

Lead and grow manufacturing engineering across sites to optimize processes, tooling, and production readiness for complex aerospace products. Drive continuous improvement, NPI readiness, process validation, PFMEAs, and cross-functional alignment with operations, quality, programs, and supply chain. Evaluate automation and capital investments, report KPIs, and support audits and customer requirements.