Director, Engineering - Cloud Observability

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

Shape the roadmap alongside product leadership rather than simply executing against it — push back on, iterate on, and help author the strategy for your area

What it asks for · 7

• You have directly managed Engineering Managers, not just individual contributors
• You have deep experience with one or more cloud providers, ideally with experience operating large-scale systems in the cloud.
• You have a solid understanding of cloud economics, as well as how to balance performance and cost in cloud computing environments.
• You integrate AI deeply into how you lead and how your teams build, treating AI-first thinking as core engineering practice rather than a feature bolted onto the product
• You have a track record of shaping product decisions, not just executing against a spec
• You have worked with large-scale, event-driven or data-intensive backend systems — ingestion pipelines, high-throughput APIs, or time-series/event data at scale
• You are comfortable operating in English in a cross-Atlantic org, and are based in New York, Boston, or Paris.

What the job covers

• Own engineering for all of Cloud Observability
• Manage ~40 engineers through a layer of Engineering Managers; this is a manager-of-managers role
• Shape the roadmap alongside product leadership rather than simply executing against it — push back on, iterate on, and help author the strategy for your area
• Drive AI adoption across the engineering org, from tooling and workflows to product features and team practices
• Navigate cross-team dependencies across the Agent, Telemetry Onboarding, Integrations, Action Platform, and Infrastructure Monitoring.
• Build and retain engineering talent in NYC, Boston, and Paris, mentor Engineering Managers toward Director readiness, and participate in the on-call rotation

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Words the posting leans on

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• cloud13×
• product10×
• engineering managers7×
• build5×
• boston4×
• director4×
• executing4×
• experience4×
• feature4×
• large-scale4×
• operating4×
• org4×
• paris4×
• practice4×
• rather4×

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