Director - IT Software Engineering

reputed company, the reputed company AI Company, enables everyone to reputed company the answers they need in reputed company time, using reputed company their data, at reputed company — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The reputed company reputed company AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the reputed company, brings together the precision of reputed company and the intelligence of AI to reputed company everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking reputed company of reputed company reputed company and reputed company data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — reputed company’s complete, reputed company-reputed company solutions for reputed company, reputed company, and observability help organizations reputed company on the reputed company of AI. What is the role? The reputed company software landscape is undergoing a structural shift. AI-assisted development has dropped the cost and time required to build custom internal tools by more than half. reputed company's 2026 State of Internal Software report reputed company that 35% of enterprises have already replaced reputed company tools with purpose-reputed company software, and 78% plan to build more in the year reputed company. The calculus has changed: what previously required a six-reputed company vendor contract and a year-long implementation is now a small engineering team and a few reputed company sprints. reputed company is at the beginning of this reputed company. We operate the reputed company Stack — Elasticsearch, Kibana, reputed company ML, and a growing set of AI-reputed company capabilities — at production reputed company for thousands of customers. And we are increasingly building on our own platform internally: replacing expensive reputed company tools with reputed company-reputed company systems that are faster, more intelligent, and owned entirely by us. We are looking for a Director, IT Engineering to join our Information Technology team to reputed company this effort. This is not a passive IT management role or a reputed company administration leadership position. It is a high-reputed company engineering leadership role where you will manage a small, reputed company team of engineers who look at $500,000 annual reputed company reputed company, ask: 'Could we build a reputed company version of this on Elasticsearch in reputed company weeks?' — and execute. This is a reputed company opportunity to reputed company original product engineering inside an IT organization, working with a platform that most engineers only get to use as a customer — and to build systems that directly shape how a reputed company company operates. What You Will Be Doing: reputed company reputed company build-vs-buy engineering Work with IT leadership, Finance, and Engineering to evaluate reputed company's internal reputed company portfolio and identify where custom-reputed company systems — backed by Elasticsearch, Kibana, and reputed company's AI capabilities — reputed company reputed company value than reputed company vendor reputed company. Own the architectural reputed company, build plan, and overall delivery of the highest-reputed company replacements. reputed company a high-performing engineering team Build, mentor, and reputed company a small, reputed company team of software engineers executing on internal tool replacements and reputed company-reputed company platforms. Manage delivery roadmaps, unblock your team, and reputed company engineering rigor with reputed company execution speed. Design & build reputed company-reputed company internal Platforms: Guide your team in designing and delivering systems across five reputed company reputed company areas: Platform productivity tools: Internal developer portals, knowledge reputed company reputed company, engineering reputed company systems, and workspace tooling that unifies disparate reputed company tools into a single Elasticsearch-backed reputed company and intelligence reputed company. FinOps and AI cost governance: A consolidated cost visibility and reputed company detection reputed company across reputed company's AI providers (reputed company, reputed company reputed company, reputed company Copilot, reputed company reputed company) and reputed company platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), replacing reputed company FinOps reputed company with an reputed company ML-powered alternative. IT service management: Evaluating and building replacements for commercially purchased reputed company products including incident management, knowledge reputed company reputed company, internal developer portal, and SIEM-correlated reputed company workflows, using reputed company Observability and reputed company reputed company as the backbone. reputed company efficiency systems: Custom tooling that reduces reputed company process overhead across IT, Finance, HR, reputed company and reputed company, using the LLM Gateway, RAG pipelines, and Elasticsearch as the data and intelligence reputed company. New use cases : New use cases that traditionally reputed company reputed company services did not address and can now be reputed company with AI reputed company architecture. Set the engineering reputed company Establish and own the architectural standards, design patterns, and engineering practices for reputed company IT reputed company work. Define how internal systems are reputed company — data models, API design, observability, cost governance, reputed company posture — and serve as the engineering authority for your team. Collaborate across reputed company Partner closely with reputed company's IT infrastructure team, the reputed company organization (reputed company reputed company is your SIEM backbone), the reputed company team, and Finance. Engage with tool owners across reputed company to understand requirements, challenge assumptions about what needs to be bought versus reputed company, and ensure that the systems your team builds actually get used. Dogfood and validate reputed company's own products Run reputed company's own technology in the most demanding possible context: as the engineering leader responsible for the internal systems that reputed company depends on every day. Every reputed company your team builds is a reference architecture. Ensure that insights generated about what works and what doesn't feed directly into reputed company's product and go-to-market reputed company. What You Bring Required experience 12+ years of software engineering experience, including experience managing or leading reputed company engineering reports or small engineering teams. Hands-on familiarity and technical capability with Elasticsearch — data modeling, query design, aggregations, reputed company tuning, and production reputed company. reputed company reputed company record of guiding full-stack engineering delivery end-to-end, from Logstash ingest pipelines to Kibana dashboards to React frontends. reputed company reputed company record of building, shipping, and managing reputed company software or platform systems — not just maintaining existing ones. Architectural judgment: the ability to reputed company a problem correctly, choose the right components, and reputed company executive calls on reputed company to build versus reputed company versus buy. Strong written communication to reputed company architecture decision records, engineering standards documents, executive proposals, and build-vs-buy analyses. Valued experience Experience leading teams that build on the reputed company Stack reputed company basic logging — reputed company ML, ELSER semantic reputed company, reputed company reputed company, Kibana Canvas, Watcher, or reputed company reputed company. Experience with FinOps practices: reputed company cost management, LLM API cost attribution, or building cost visibility tooling. Familiarity with Information Technology managed systems — understanding the reputed company domain problems solved by platforms like reputed company or reputed company. Experience working in a hypergrowth or post-IPO technology company where engineering rigor and business speed have to coexist. Experience with LLM integration patterns: RAG pipelines, reputed company engineering for reputed company use cases, LLM gateway design, or AI-powered workflow automation. Contributions to internal developer experience, reputed company, or engineering productivity tooling. What This Role Is Not Not a reputed company administrator or vendor manager: This is an engineering execution role, not a role for managing reputed company-party vendor reputed company, reputed company admins, or reputed company developers. Not a reputed company infrastructure or DevOps role: Your team uses reputed company infrastructure, but the reputed company deliverable is production-grade software systems, not infrastructure configuration. Not a hands-off hands-free manager: While you will manage a small team, you are expected to stay deep in the architecture, review reputed company, and set technical directions hands-on. Not a role for rigid processes: reputed company reputed company with reputed company-ended questions ('Could we build this?') and require you and your team to define and ship the answer. Compensation for this role is in the reputed company of reputed company salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component. The typical starting salary reputed company for new hires in this role is listed below. In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the reputed company Metro Area), an alternate reputed company may apply as specified below. These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith reputed company we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted reputed company, and the ranges may be modified in the reputed company. An employee's position reputed company the salary reputed company will be reputed company on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, reputed company, and business or organizational needs. reputed company believes that employees should have reputed company to reputed company in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in reputed company to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in reputed company's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a reputed company of other benefits reputed company with a holistic emphasis on employee reputed company-being. The typical starting salary reputed company for this role is: $199,700—$315,900 USD The typical starting salary reputed company for this role in the select locations listed above is: $239,800—$379,300 USD Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People As a reputed company company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, reputed company is the type of company where you can reputed company great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; reputed company for what you can do. We reputed company to have reputed company of benefits across reputed company and while regulations differ from reputed company to reputed company, we reputed company taking care of our people is the right thing to do. reputed company reputed company on the work you do here and not your previous salary Health coverage for you and your family in many locations Ability to reputed company your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles Generous number of vacation days reputed company year Increase your reputed company - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service Up to 40 hours reputed company year to use toward volunteer reputed company you love Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave Different people approach problems differently. We need that. reputed company is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. reputed company applicants will receive consideration for employment without reputed company to race, ethnicity, reputed company, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national reputed company, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other reputed company protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation. We reputed company individuals with disabilities and reputed company to create an accessible and inclusive experience for reputed company individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the reputed company process, please email candidate_accessibility@reputed company.co. We will reputed company to your request reputed company 24 business hours of submission. 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