Director, Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

• Run the Nebula development lifecycle end to end: quarterly planning, sprint execution, release management, and post-release quality.
• Set and track engineering metrics such as cycle time, escaped defects, and availability, and use them to raise predictability rather than to police teams.
• Surface risk early and remove roadblocks so teams can stay focused.
• Advance the platform architecture with your senior engineers: multi-tenant scalability, performance on very large data volumes, cost efficiency, and the reliability clients expect from a system entrusted with litigation data.
• Partner with Product and applied research to take AI features such as ECAi, summarization, and sensitive-data detection from prototype to production quality, including model evaluation, guardrails, cost control, and the security and privacy review that legal-sector clients demand.
• Hire, coach, and grow engineering managers and senior individual contributors.
• Own org design, performance management, career development, and succession for the group, building a team where senior talent is well leveraged and junior talent has room to grow.
• Act as the engineering voice for Nebula with executives, Product Marketing, and Client Services, and occasionally with clients and prospects.
• Translate 12 to 18 month business objectives into a technical strategy the teams can execute.
• Own headcount planning, third-party technology relationships, and the engineering budget for the group, with monthly forecasting and variance reporting.

What You Bring (required Skills)

• 10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years managing engineers and experience managing managers.
• A track record of shipping and operating commercial SaaS products on a major cloud platform.
• Experience delivering AI- or ML-powered product features to production, or close partnership with teams that did.
• Demonstrated success hiring and developing engineering leaders in a remote or distributed organization.
• Clear, direct communication with executives and non-technical stakeholders.
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Have (preferred Skills)

• Experience in eDiscovery, legal technology, or another regulated, data-intensive domain.
• Familiarity with large-scale search and document-processing pipelines and with SOC 2 or ISO 27001 environments.