Top Director of Engineering Jobs in Austin, TX

Senior technical leader owning the 6–12 month engineering strategy for the Salesforce platform. Lead Salesforce feature delivery, integrations, DevOps (Copado), and AI capabilities (Agentforce, Prompt Builder). Establish architecture, code quality, and deployment governance; manage and mentor an engineering team; collaborate with Product and Business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions.

Lead Alteryx's Infrastructure, SRE, Observability, and Performance Engineering teams. Define technical vision and execution for cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), IaC (Terraform), observability (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana), incident management, SLO/SLI/error budget frameworks, and reliability programs. Partner with Security, Compliance, Product, and Customer Operations to ensure scalable, secure, and highly available SaaS services while building and mentoring engineering leaders.

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 Mainframe systems engineering teams, oversee technology investment in IBM z/OS, networking, and automation for Core Clearing applications, and align infrastructure efforts with business needs.

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 global backend engineering for SoC and MCU programs from RTL to GDS, ensuring on-time tape-out meeting PPA targets. Scale distributed teams, standardize flows and methodologies, enable advanced-node signoff, partner with foundries and EDA vendors, and drive metrics-based execution and quality across concurrent programs.

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 and define end-to-end SoC functional verification strategies (simulation, emulation, formal), drive verification closure for high-speed interfaces and integrated IPs, establish reusable UVM-based methodologies, oversee emulation/prototyping, debug pre-silicon issues, mentor engineering leads, and collaborate across architecture, RTL, firmware, and post-silicon teams to ensure first-pass silicon success.

Lead Boulevard's cloud infrastructure and reliability practice, driving AWS-based platform architecture, EKS containerization, Terraform/GitOps automation, CI/CD transformation, observability, disaster recovery, and security/compliance. Build and mentor an infrastructure team and partner with Product and Data to enable scalable, highly available services.

Lead the design, management, and optimization of virtualized infrastructure platforms, ensuring performance and scalability while modernizing legacy systems and driving continuous improvement through automation.

Lead and grow an integrations engineering team: hiring, performance management, architecture and technical oversight for secure, distributed payroll data systems. Drive API and integration design, observability, data quality monitoring, compliance, project delivery, and client-facing technical discussions.

Lead Cloud Platform to build scalable, secure, and cost-efficient AWS infrastructure (EKS-focused), align stakeholders, automate shard buildout, reduce incidents via hardened ingress and Terraform guardrails, manage distributed senior teams and AWS spend, and deliver a cloud roadmap tied to AI and enterprise goals.

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.

The Director of Systems Engineering will lead and mentor teams in developing cardiac health monitoring technologies, ensuring compliance and effective product lifecycles.

Lead multiple engineering teams owning foundational services (identity, documents, payments, vehicle data). Grow managers and engineers, define strategy and roadmaps, ensure technical quality, compliance, operational readiness, cross-team collaboration, and financial sustainability of services.

Lead and manage electrical engineering for mission‑critical data center development across multiple projects and regions. Oversee design, standards, procurement, vendor coordination, risk resolution, and cross‑functional collaboration. Provide technical direction, mentor staff, support due diligence and master planning, present updates to executives, and drive scalable, compliant electrical solutions aligned with business objectives.

Lead technical execution and people management for multiple engineering pods (18 people). Set goals, shape roadmap with product and design, build scalable engineering processes, provide architectural oversight, drive technical excellence, and champion practical AI tooling adoption to improve developer velocity and product capability.