Director of Software Engineering

Role Overview Join a fast-growing Quantum Computing & AI company — one of the most cutting-edge spaces in tech today. You will be responsible for end-to-end ownership of software engineering execution, including architecture, delivery, scalability, reliability, security, and engineering culture. This role bridges technology strategy and business outcomes, ensuring high-quality, high-performance software systems delivered at scale in production across enterprises. Key Responsibilities: ● Strategy & Architecture ○ Define and execute the engineering roadmap. ○ Own technical decision-making and drive architecture evolution ○ Ensure scalability, performance, security. ○ Provide architectural leadership for distributed systems, microservices, data platforms, and AI/ML workloads. ○ Ensure systems meet NFRs as performance, security, cost efficiency. ● Delivery &Quality ○ Ensure on-time, high-quality delivery across multiple teams. ○ Enforce engineering best practices (design/code reviews, CI/CD). ○ Own delivery metrics (velocity, quality, reliability). ○ Partner closely with Product Management and other cross-functional teams. ○ Ensure clear prioritization and seamless delivery. ● Operational Excellence ○ Own production readiness and operational excellence. ○ Drive reliability practices (SLOs, incident response). ○ Ensure a strong security posture and compliance. ● Team Leadership & Development ○ Build, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering leaders and teams. ○ Establish clear career paths and foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning. ○ Lead the hiring strategy for senior engineering roles. ● Innovation & Productivity ○ Champion engineering productivity improvements (tooling, automation). ○ Drive innovation, technical debt reduction, and modernization initiatives. Technical Expertise: • Strong foundation in software architecture, system design, and distributed systems, with ownership of scalability, performance, reliability, security, and cost efficiency in enterprise production systems. • Hands-on expertise in Python, Java, Go, C++/Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript,Node.js including concurrency, parallelism, async runtimes, memory/GC internals and performance profiling. • Backend & API systems using FastAPI, Django, Flask, Spring Boot, Gin/Fiber, NestJS/Express, with REST, gRPC, GraphQL, OpenAPI, service meshes, and API gateways. • Data & streaming platforms: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra/DynamoDB; Kafka, Pulsar, RabbitMQ, SQS/SNS, real-time and event-driven architectures. • Cloud-native & next-gen infra on AWS/Azure/GCP with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform/IaC, multi-region, multi-cloud, serverless, edge computing, and cloud cost optimization (FinOps). • CI/CD & platform engineering with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitOps, progressive delivery (blue-green/canary), internal developer platforms (IDPs). • Observability & reliability using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, eBPF-based observability, SLOs/SLIs, incident response, postmortems. • Security & trust engineering: OAuth2, JWT, mTLS, Vault/KMS, zero-trust architectures, policy-as-code, secure supply chain, OWASP Top 10, SOC2/ISO-aligned SDLC. • Modern engineering practices: fault tolerance, consistency models, networking, OS/runtime internals, automated quality, security, and reliability checks, AI-assisted development, AIOps, and autonomous remediation patterns. Required Qualifications: • 12+ years of professional software engineering experience • 5+ years leading large, multi-team engineering organizations • Proven experience delivering large-scale, production-grade software systems • Exceptional people management and leadership skills