Top Director of Engineering Jobs in Seattle, WA

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 a team of 10 engineers to architect and develop Node.js and Salesforce solutions, improving delivery schedules and performance metrics.

Lead the engineering of a platform for digital assets, focusing on scalability, security, and team growth. Directly manage the development of critical systems supporting millions of users.

Lead multiple engineering teams delivering enterprise API and integration platform capabilities. Set technical vision, align engineering strategy with product goals, drive DevOps/observability adoption, manage vendor relationships, recruit and coach engineering managers, and ensure delivery of enterprise data and reporting services.

The Director of Software Engineering leads a team to develop cloud software for public safety drones, manages projects, and promotes innovation within the engineering organization.

Lead platform engineering teams to design, build, operate, and run OCI-native services for IoT and Connected Devices. Own service reliability, architecture, releases, incident response, KPIs, talent development, and cross-functional delivery of scalable, production-grade cloud services.

The Sr. Director of Applications Engineering will lead a team in developing photonics solutions, engage with clients, mentor engineers, and ensure effective technical communication.

Lead high-complexity privacy engineering initiatives across DuckDuckGo products. Own privacy reviews, audits, and technical programs from definition to delivery; build automation and privacy-preserving infrastructure; evolve triage and review processes; drive cross-functional projects; and hire and mentor privacy engineering talent while shaping company-wide privacy strategy.

Lead multiple engineering teams and Engineering Managers to deliver scalable landlord-facing products. Drive technical strategy, architecture, execution discipline, and product partnership. Improve delivery predictability, team health, hiring, and leadership development to ensure high-impact, reliable systems that support multifamily operators and landlord workflows.

Lead and scale the web platform engineering organization, owning architecture, quality, embedded web experiences, performance, CI/CD, reliability, and people leadership across web engineering.

Lead and scale a multi-team engineering organization owning Billing, TMS, WMS, and LMS. Manage five engineering managers and a Principal Engineer, drive billing automation, deliver a standalone TMS/Parcel system, improve network LMS efficiency, and ensure WMS reliability and international scalability. Build cross-functional partnerships with Finance and Parcel, make organizational design decisions, coach managers, and prioritize technical investments to deliver measurable cost and revenue outcomes.

Lead the national Data Center delivery practice, owning end-to-end delivery of compute, storage, data protection, hybrid cloud, and GPU/AI infrastructure. Build and scale a high-performing delivery organization, ensure on-time/on-budget executions, define repeatable delivery frameworks, and collaborate with sales, solutions architecture, and technology partners to support large-scale, multi-site deployments.

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.

The Director of Engineering will lead the development of a new billing platform by setting vision, building a team, and driving execution while enhancing AI-first operational practices.

Lead and own payer enrollment as a business: set goals for enrollment times and success rates, prioritize builds, ship fast, measure outcomes, make technical tradeoffs, hire and develop engineering managers and engineers, and partner with Product, Operations, and Applied AI to automate and scale enrollment workflows.

Lead and streamline engineering management to free the CTO for strategy. Oversee engineering pods, triage technical issues, guide solutions architecture, advocate for technical debt/backlog, and ensure teams ship products quickly while aligning architecture with business goals.

Lead the Hosting Platform engineering team owning roadmap, reliability, scalability, and performance for hundreds of thousands of sites. Mentor managers and senior engineers, drive architecture for distributed, multi-tenant systems (edge delivery, caching, databases), define SLOs and observability, manage incident response and customer escalations, balance technical debt, and champion AI-native engineering and automation.

Lead and grow the engineering organization, drive architecture and roadmap with the CTO, recruit and develop engineers, ship production software, establish processes for speed and quality, and collaborate with clinical stakeholders to translate needs into product.

Lead engineering teams in embedded systems development, manage hardware projects, interface with clients, ensure compliance with military standards, and mentor staff.

As Senior Director of Engineering, you will lead a high-impact team to develop and execute platform strategies for AI-based services in clinical trials, ensuring product development and team scalability.

Lead engineering excellence for Marketplace and Auctions products. Drive technical strategy, people development, and delivery outcomes while championing AI engineering practices.

Lead and scale the engineering organization for GiveDirectly's cash delivery platform. Own technical strategy, team structure, hiring, operational excellence (on-call, incidents, testing, deployments), and representation of engineering at senior leadership. Start hands-on managing engineers and partner on roadmap and delivery to scale the platform to billions in transfers.

Own the technical customer relationship for a named account: define product/lease requirements, manage Engineering Change Requests, develop tailored AI data center solutions across compute/GPU/storage/networking, align delivery with internal TPM/BTM teams, influence product roadmap, and support lead generation and solution pitches. Regular travel (~25-30%) and cross-functional leadership required.

Lead and manage multiple engineering teams, design agentic LLM-driven development workflows, set technical strategy and standards, ensure delivery quality, mentor engineers, oversee onboarding and performance reviews, and coordinate cross-team efforts to mitigate risks and maintain system ownership, testing, logging, and monitoring.

Lead multiple engineering teams responsible for mobile foundation and core web services for Disney+ and Hulu. Drive technical vision, org-level OKRs, cross-functional initiatives, platform investments (observability, release safety, developer tooling), and managerial development. Partner with product and business leaders to remove bottlenecks and operationalize engineering standards and policies.