Senior Director - Feature Engineering

Austin, TX

DISCO provides a cloud-native, artificial intelligence-powered legal solution that simplifies ediscovery, legal document review, and case management for enterprises, law firms, legal services providers, and governments. Our scalable, integrated solution enables legal departments to easily collect, process, and review enterprise data that is relevant or potentially relevant to legal matters.

Your Impact / What You’ll Do

As a Senior Director of Feature Engineering, you will:

• Guide multiple teams to deliver value pragmatically and productively while building architecturally sound, well-crafted, secure, testable, interoperable, and easily modifiable systems.
• Build an effective team by hiring and developing top talent, instituting and evolving team practices, and fostering a culture of respect, cooperation, dependability, ownership, and gratitude.
• Own the charter and technical backlog for multiple teams, with a headcount between 20-30 software engineers. 
• Foster operational excellence, improving the performance, availability, and scalability of your systems, and your staff’s ability to consistently improve them.
• Represent the team and charter to internal stakeholders, leadership, and the business.
• Evaluate team architectural designs for completeness and coherence with requirements.

Who You Are

• 12+ years of experience including prior hands-on experience developing and operating distributed systems in the cloud.
• 5+ years of engineering management including experience hiring, managing, and growing engineers up to principal level
• Experienced with owning a team charter and managing a technical roadmap.
• Understand architectural patterns and techniques such as domain-driven design, service-oriented architecture, diagramming conventions, etc.
• History of owning and improving operational excellence for scalable, highly available systems where developers are responsible for site reliability.
• Track record of delivering well tested, reliable systems and fostering a culture of quality.
• Skilled with CI/CD, containerization (esp. Docker or Kubernetes), infrastructure and deployment automation (esp. Terraform), cloud computing in AWS, and automated control planes.
• Familiar with networking, superstructure and security
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a good sense of when there’s a need to dive into the details.

DISCO's Technology Stack

• Cloud Provider - AWS: EC2, Lambda, Aurora, Redshift, DynamoDB, ECS, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, S3, CloudFront, CloudFormation, SageMaker, KMS, CodePipeline, etc.
• CI/CD: Jenkins, CodePipeline, GitHub, Artifactory 
• DSL-based Search: multiple large-scale Elasticsearch Clusters searched using our Disco Query Language (DQL)
• Event Bus: Kafka and Schema Registry
• 3rd Party Vendors: Snowflake, Auth0 for Cloud Identity Federation (SSO, SAML, etc)
• AI: MinHash, FastText, Word2Vec, Convolution Neural Nets, PyTorch, Recurrent Neural Networks, Latent Dirichlet Allocation for Topic Modeling, etc.
• Deployment: Terraform, Docker (via ECS), Consul for App Config, Service Discovery, Shared Secrets
• Visibility: ELK Stack for logging, Datadog, New Relic, Sentry.io
• Programming Languages: Python, JavaScript, C#/.NET, Java, Kotlin
• Transport Mechanisms: Protobuf, Avro, HTTP Rest/JSON

Why Join DISCO’s Product Delivery Team

We intend to build a multi-billion dollar business and think you should come along for the ride because: 

• We were the first movers to a cloud-based platform that has caused mass disruption within our market.
• Our CEO is a true market visionary. He graduated with a computer science degree at the age of 15 and followed with a JD from Harvard Law School at the age of 19. His unparalleled insights into the fundamental issues in legal and the potential of technology and artificial intelligence to change our market at its core provide the guiding light for DISCO’s long-term strategy.
• We believe that product delivery professionals including product managers, product designers and engineers differ from one another by at least a factor of 10. At DISCO, we only hire the top 1%, pay them well, and with equity, everyone has plenty of stake in the results of their contributions. Given our product first mindset, product delivery is very much the stars of the show. Our logo, the circle and square, represents the best lawyers and the best engineering professionals in the world.
• We measure product delivery velocity by dollars of revenue per line of code, vs simply lines of code. This drives a very thoughtful and deliberate product design and development process that ensures we’re going to make money when we ship products. We hire many more product managers and designers per engineer than most companies to ensure that our engineers have a disambiguated product intent when they are building.
• As a rule, we don’t commit to external product delivery dates as we believe that unnecessarily constrains our creativity from both a product and technology point of view.
• At DISCO respect isn’t earned, it is assumed. Good humans inherently treat everyone respectfully. 
• Given the high caliber of talent, the cutting-edge cloud-based technology stack, and thoughtful and novel product and design approach, you’ll find yourself learning at a rate you’ve not likely experienced in your career. Given that we only hire professionals that are passionate about their craft, you’ll truly enjoy building a great software product and get in the best “career shape” of your life.
• We plan to continue to  grow our product delivery organization. There will be incredible growth opportunities along the way.
• We use the “2 Pizza Team” organization design where small autonomous teams own a piece of a product or platform and ship software at rates comparable to a very lean and scrappy startup. We achieve consistency across these teams in the areas of design, product-wide use cases and technical concerns through a strategically focused set of overlay functions.
• Finally, while we’re an incredibly fast-growing organization, as a rule, we do not work crazy long hours. We believe in continuous product delivery, continuous product planning and design, continuous regular sleep schedules, continuous regular vacation, and continuous fun if you’re passionate about your craft.

If you want to win while getting better than you’ve ever been, come to DISCO.

Perks of DISCO

• Open, inclusive, and fun environment
• Benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, as well as 401(k) 
• Competitive salary plus RSUs
• Flexible PTO 
• Opportunity to be a part of a company that is revolutionizing the legal industry
• Growth opportunities throughout the company