Director of Engineering
About the role
Your product is the engineering ecosystem itself. You will sit at the intersection of Engineering Leadership, Product Management, and Operational Excellence to build a world-class Internal Developer Platform (IDP) and incident and disaster recovery programs. Your mission is to reduce cognitive load for our feature teams, defining the Golden Path that allows engineers to move from idea to production reliably, efficiently, and securely with minimal friction.
Responsibilities
- Lead the charge in evolving our SRE, DevOps, and FinOps practices into an era of AI-driven automation and agentic workflows.
- Lead multiple teams of engineers building, testing, deploying, maintaining, and operating technical solutions that are utilized by our internal developers, business teams and or external users.
- Manage, mentor, and develop engineers while overseeing technical design, implementation, and operation of these solutions.
- Aid in project coordination, risk management, and cross-team collaboration in a Technology organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or more advanced degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related discipline; or equivalent experience
- Strong technical background with deep knowledge of software development methodologies, architectures, and technologies
- Deep expertise in SRE, DevOps, Cloud Architecture, CI/CD, and IaC principles
- Proven mastery in designing and leading enterprise-level strategies for Incident Management, Disaster Recovery (DR), and Performance/Load Testing platforms
- Experience championing comprehensive SRE practices across all engineering teams
- Experience in AI & Agentic implementation across DevOps, SRE, FinOps, DR, and incident management disciplines driving non-linear improvements of key results
- Experience strategizing and evangelizing product roadmaps, while also being ultimately accountable for the delivery of it
- 7+ years of software development experience, preferably building customer-facing products and services
- 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams or 1+ year of leading leaders
Qualifications
- Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, Leadership, Platform Architecture, SRE
- Observability
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience | Required
Skills
- Technical Depth: Deep expertise in SRE, DevOps, Cloud Architecture, CI/CD, and IaC principles
- Operational Expertise: Proven mastery in designing and leading enterprise-level strategies for Incident Management, Disaster Recovery (DR), and Performance/Load Testing platforms
- Technical Depth: Deep expertise in SRE, DevOps, Cloud Architecture, CI/CD, and IaC principles
- Operational Expertise: Proven mastery in designing and leading enterprise-level strategies for Incident Management, Disaster Recovery (DR), and Performance/Load Testing platforms
- Technical Depth: Deep expertise in SRE, DevOps, Cloud Architecture, CI/CD, and IaC principles
- Operational Expertise: Proven mastery in designing and leading enterprise-level strategies for Incident Management, Disaster Recovery (DR), and Performance/Load Testing platforms
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision and more
- Eligibility for an annual bonus
- Paid holidays throughout the calendar year
- Paid sick leave
- Discretionary vacation for exempt team members
- Restricted stock units based on role
Pay
Pay Range: $168,000 - $250,000
Schedule
Shipt considers candidates located near a Shipt office or workspace in Birmingham, San Francisco, or Minneapolis to be hybrid, which means that they have the flexibility to work from home (with leader approval) or at a Shipt office in order to facilitate the ability to innovate, collaborate, and spark team connections. In-office expectations will vary by role and leader. Certain roles may require in-office presence on a full-time basis.