Top Director of Engineering Jobs in Austin, TX

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.

Leads and scales a global application engineering organization supporting AI and high-performance computing customers. Owns recruiting, talent development, customer technical engagements, reference designs, technical escalations, automation, and feedback into product roadmaps. Requires deep datacenter and server power delivery expertise, executive-level customer communication, cross-functional influence, and substantial experience in power electronics or power management semiconductors.

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 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 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 application support engineering across multiple locations, directing incident analysis, alert trend reviews, disaster recovery, runbook governance, certificate and service account renewals, and complex application, middleware, database, cloud, and infrastructure troubleshooting. Manages critical escalations, operational readiness approvals, support requirements, team assignments, deliverables, mentoring, and risk controls while partnering with development, infrastructure, and client-facing teams.

Leads Cloudflare’s billing platform engineering organization and quote-to-cash systems. Owns multi-year strategy, architecture, organizational design, execution, reliability, auditability, reconciliation, and financial data integrity across billing, payments, tax, ERP, CRM, and revenue platforms. Manages engineering managers and senior technical leaders while partnering with Product, Finance, Legal, Sales, and Support. Drives operational excellence, platform modernization, executive communication, and scalable systems supporting subscriptions, usage-based billing, invoicing, entitlements, and enterprise transactions.

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.

Leads the ISSI platform engineering organization, owning strategy, execution, budgets, staffing, roadmaps, technical standards, and delivery across multiple teams. Manages engineering leaders, individual contributors, and offshore vendors while partnering with executives on priorities and outcomes. Oversees scalable, secure software delivery, architecture governance, hiring, performance management, process improvement, and adoption of emerging technologies including generative AI.

Provides technical leadership for a platform initiative by defining architecture, scalability, and long-term engineering strategy. Designs APIs, data pipelines, integrations, and distributed services; leads complex initiatives; manages dependencies and cross-functional execution; improves reliability, observability, and operational efficiency; evaluates technical risks and emerging technologies; and influences product roadmaps and technical direction across teams.

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.

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 approximately 30 employees through engineering leaders to build and unify a high-volume eCommerce platform across multiple brands. Owns architecture, roadmap, delivery, reliability, cost, customer experience, KPIs, and SLAs. Partners with Product, UX, business stakeholders, and customers while remaining technically hands-on through design reviews, coding, architecture decisions, and engineering standards. Oversees quoting, ordering, catalog, pricing, inventory, fulfillment, order status, AI applications, and customer project experiences.

Own and shape a unified eCommerce engineering platform across multiple brands. Lead approximately 30 employees through engineering leaders, oversee quoting, ordering, catalog, inventory, fulfillment, order status, and customer projects, and unify WWT and Softchoice teams. Set technical direction, remain hands-on in architecture and code reviews, introduce AI-native practices, establish KPIs and SLAs, and partner with Product, UX, business stakeholders, and customers to deliver reliable, scalable digital commerce experiences.

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.

Leads electrical engineering design and delivery for data center projects, covering LV, MV, and HV systems, power distribution, backup power, grounding, controls, white-space infrastructure, and construction support. Establishes design standards, reviews designs and submittals, supports equipment selection and troubleshooting, coordinates stakeholders, and develops a team of electrical engineers. Requires extensive experience with mission-critical or large-scale projects and strong knowledge of electrical codes and power systems.

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.