Director, DevOps & Cloud Engineering

About the role

We are seeking an experienced engineering leader to build and lead our Quality Engineering and DevOps functions at Butterfly Network. This is a high-impact role sitting at the intersection of reliability, velocity, and quality — responsible for ensuring our software and infrastructure meet the rigorous standards required of a regulated medical device company. As Director, you will own both the QA and DevOps disciplines end-to-end: setting the strategy for test automation, CI/CD pipelines, release processes, infrastructure reliability, and developer experience. You will lead a distributed team spanning onshore and offshore engineers, partnering closely with product engineering, security, and regulatory teams to ship fast without sacrificing quality or compliance.

Location: Hybrid position based out of our office in New York City, NY.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and inspire a high-performing team of QA and DevOps engineers spanning onshore and offshore — building a culture of ownership, craft, and continuous improvement.
• Define and execute the strategy for quality engineering across the organization — automated testing frameworks, test coverage standards, regression pipelines, and quality metrics.
• Own the DevOps and platform engineering roadmap — CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation, cloud cost optimization, and developer tooling.
• Partner with engineering leadership to establish release management processes that support high-velocity delivery while maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements (HIPAA, FDA, SOC 2).
• Drive observability and site reliability engineering (SRE) practices — on-call processes, incident response, runbooks, SLAs/SLOs, and post-mortems.
• Recruit, retain, and develop top QA and DevOps talent; build a team that other engineers love working with.
• Establish clear quality gates across the SDLC — from PR review through production — reducing defect escape rates and improving release confidence.
• Champion a security-first mindset, ensuring infrastructure and release processes meet security and compliance standards.
• Serve as a cross-functional partner to product engineering, regulatory, IT, and security teams to align on standards and unblock delivery

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, QA, DevOps, or platform engineering, with at least 3 to 5 years in an engineering management or senior technical leadership role.
• Proven experience leading both QA and DevOps/platform functions — either combined or separately — with a track record of building high-performing teams.
• Demonstrated success managing distributed teams, including offshore or nearshore engineers across multiple time zones.
• Deep expertise in CI/CD pipeline design and implementation, release automation, and developer experience tooling.
• Strong background in test strategy and automation — familiarity with frameworks for unit, integration, end-to-end, and performance testing.
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), containerization (Docker, ECS, EKS), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CDK, or equivalent).
• Experience working in regulated environments (HIPAA, SOC 2, FDA, or similar) with an understanding of compliance requirements for software and infrastructure.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; comfortable operating at the director level and presenting to senior leadership.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Ideally, you also have these skills/experiences/attributes (but it’s ok if you don’t!): Experience in health tech, medical devices, or other regulated industries; Familiarity with SRE principles and practices — SLOs, error budgets, chaos engineering; Experience with observability tooling (Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, or equivalent); Knowledge of security tooling — SAST, DAST, dependency scanning integrated into CI/CD; Experience with mobile QA (iOS/Android) in addition to web and API testing; Containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker