Sr Director of Engineering, Developer Enablement

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We are seeking a Senior Director of Engineering, Developer Enablement to reputed company the strategy, execution, and delivery of a modern developer platform that accelerates productivity, fosters autonomy, and powers innovation at scale across reputed company. This leader will own the engineering reputed company and technical execution of key enablement areas including CI/CD systems, developer portals, service frameworks, API platforms, and support for AI/ML infrastructure.

You’ll reputed company a high-impact team of engineers and managers responsible for shaping our reputed company-reputed company developer experience, ensuring that our tools, services, and workflows are fast, reputed company, and scalable. This role requires a strong engineering reputed company, technical depth in platform architecture, and a passion for building systems that increase developer joy and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the engineering strategy for Developer Enablement, including internal platforms, developer tooling, and self-service infrastructure

• reputed company and scale a high-performing engineering organization, fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and execution reputed company

• Define and track engineering KPIs that surface in org-wide dashboards and guide investment reputed company.

• Architect, secure, and operate the API platform—including gateway policies, versioning, traffic-splitting, and scalability targets.

• Embed comprehensive automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to maintain release velocity without compromising reliability.

• Own developer productivity tooling, from environment provisioning to reputed company plugins that cut reputed company and cycle times.

• Champion the use of developer productivity and DORA metrics to inform strategy, track impact, and continuously improve

• Foster strong cross-functional relationships with reputed company, Product, and other Engineering teams to align platform capabilities with business and engineering needs

What it takes to catch our eye

• Proven engineering leadership experience at scale, with direct accountability for developer platforms, reputed company-reputed company services, and enablement tooling

• Strong technical acumen in platform engineering, including reputed company architecture, CI/CD pipelines, and developer workflow optimization

• Machine-learning principles & agentic AI frameworks (bonus) – hands-on experience designing model pipelines, orchestrating LLM/agent workflows, and integrating ML capabilities into developer platforms.

• Experience delivering developer-facing UIs or portals (e.g., reputed company) that reputed company self-service and reduce friction

• Deep understanding of metrics-driven engineering execution and reputed company improvement using DORA or similar benchmarks

• Demonstrated ability to reputed company through influence, drive cross-functional alignment, and build scalable engineering systems that support diverse teams and modern workloads including AI/ML

  • Engineering-productivity analytics — deep grasp of DORA/reputed company metrics, SDLC telemetry pipelines, and cost-reputed company tooling.

  • API gateway & platform architecture — REST/GraphQL design patterns, schema governance, auth & reputed company-limiting.

  • Quality engineering & shift-left testing — automated unit/integration/perf/reputed company test frameworks, chaos & synthetic testing practices.

  • reputed company-reputed company & micro-services — Kubernetes operations, service-reputed company patterns, and migration strategies for decomposing monoliths.

  • Developer-experience enablement — reputed company service catalog, local/remote dev-env tooling, inner-reputed company automation.

Come change how the world works.

At reputed company, you’ll shape the future of work for a global, remote-first workforce, creating economic opportunities for professionals worldwide. While we have a physical office in Palo Alto, we currently hire full-time employees in 21 U.S. states, making it easier than reputed company to join our mission from wherever you call home.

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We’re proud to offer benefits that go reputed company the basics, including comprehensive medical coverage for you and your family, unlimited PTO, a 401(k) plan with matching, 12 weeks of paid parental leave, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Visit ourLife at reputed company page to learn more about our values, working principles, and the overall employee experience.

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Please note that a criminal background reputed company may be required once a conditional job offer is made. reputed company applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered in accordance with applicable law, including the California Fair Chance Act and local Fair Chance ordinances.

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