Top Director of Engineering Jobs in Austin, TX

Leads validation, characterization, qualification, and reliability testing for integrated data center platforms. Establishes test strategies, labs, data infrastructure, lifecycle gates, acceptance criteria, automation, and certification plans for power, cooling, controls, and integrated systems. Partners with manufacturing, quality, engineering, business units, and customers to move products from prototype through production readiness while personally designing tests, instrumentation, data pipelines, and root-cause investigations.

Leads engineering laboratory strategy, validation infrastructure, test operations, and technical facilities for AI data center platforms. Oversees multidisciplinary teams, laboratory roadmaps, testing and certification, budgets, capital investments, safety, automation, data acquisition, and operational performance. Partners with engineering, product, manufacturing, quality, facilities, EHS, and supply chain teams while supporting customer demonstrations and executive technology showcases.

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 the Merchant & Pay engineering organization, overseeing managers and teams responsible for merchant, partner, payment, and internal tooling systems. Owns technical strategy, multi-year roadmaps, reliability, scalability, security, engineering standards, and generative AI adoption. Partners with Product, Data, Security, and company leadership while recruiting, developing, and retaining engineering talent. Requires extensive engineering leadership experience, AWS expertise, marketplace or payments experience, and experience scaling business-critical platforms.

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 the creation and growth of a centralized Data Platform Enablement organization supporting planetary-scale, stateful distributed systems. Responsibilities include hiring engineering leaders, automating cloud and sovereign-region deployments, building end-to-end validation and observability, improving reliability and incident response, managing infrastructure costs, capacity planning, chaos testing, and automating residency and compliance evidence. The role requires broad cross-functional influence, executive communication, and deep experience with platform, SRE, infrastructure, and distributed data systems.

Leads GitLab’s Database Excellence organization, setting strategy for PostgreSQL and other application datastores. Owns database reliability, capacity, availability, sustainability, infrastructure costs, and platform standardization. Manages three Engineering Managers, develops technical leaders, oversees hiring and organization design, establishes objectives and KPIs, manages budgets, partners cross-functionally on platform investments, and serves as an escalation point for database incidents and operational processes.

Lead product engineering for server and storage programs, managing cross-functional teams to deliver new and sustaining products. Drive technical direction, quality, cost reduction, and organizational development while collaborating with product, program, manufacturing, test, and quality stakeholders.

Leads large-scale building operating systems and IoT engineering programs, including BMS connectivity, controls, security compliance, fault detection, predictive maintenance, and asset management. Serves as a trusted client advisor, oversees project delivery and reporting, presents technical solutions, and manages a team of engineering subject matter experts. Develops resource plans, succession strategies, and professional growth programs while supporting facilities, sustainability, business continuity, and lifecycle asset initiatives.

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 multiple engineering organizations and defines long-term technology strategy, organizational design, workforce planning, budgets, governance, and technical investment priorities. Partners with executive leadership to drive scalable product and platform delivery, modernization, reliability, security, developer productivity, and AI strategy. Oversees engineering leaders, talent development, succession planning, performance management, and organizational transformation while communicating engineering performance and business outcomes to executives.

Leads front-end semiconductor design projects and mentors RTL engineers. Defines microarchitecture, develops and optimizes RTL in Verilog, SystemVerilog, or VHDL, and oversees pre-silicon verification, lint, CDC, formal verification, synthesis, and signoff. Collaborates with design verification, physical design, architecture, and firmware teams to deliver IPs and SoCs meeting PPA goals. Supports SDC creation, physical design, and static timing analysis teams.

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 a global applications engineering organization responsible for the automotive microprocessor customer journey from evaluation through deployment. Defines customer and developer experience strategy, aligns engineering, product, sales, and executive teams, translates customer insights into engineering priorities, and manages complex technical escalations. Drives transformation in software enablement, developer experience, and AI-powered engineering while balancing customer value, technical investment, scalability, and business outcomes.

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 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 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.

Build and lead Harmattan AI’s engineering organization, owning technical delivery across airframe, propulsion, avionics, launch systems, and ground segments. Drive systems through qualification, flight testing, trials, and series production; hire and manage engineering leaders; conduct cross-disciplinary design reviews; manage project milestones; and develop a sustainable supplier ecosystem.

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.