Engineering Director / Senior EM

Our client is a global, hyper-growth B2B SaaS company whose collaborative platform powers productivity and workflow management for millions of users worldwide.

• Deep expertise in backend distributed systems engineering, addressing performance, caching, and storage challenges at scale.
• Strong familiarity with high-throughput data tools such as Kafka, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, Redis, and distributed NoSQL databases.
• Proven experience as a Senior Engineering Manager or Director managing managers and aligning multi-team operations.
• Pragmatic and product-minded problem solver focusing on business purpose as well as technical implementation.
• Experience delivering complex infrastructure migrations and upgrades in fast-paced environments.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills to explain technical complexity to non-technical stakeholders.

Core Areas of Impact & Scale:

• Design highly concurrent, fault-tolerant massive-scale ingestion pipelines with guaranteed transactional integrity.
• Drive evolution of low-latency pub/sub and messaging transport layers to sync state across microservices.
• Optimize indexing strategies, query execution plans, and retrieval algorithms for sub-second search results over petabyte-scale datasets.
• Scale high-volume data stores responsible for tracking, auditing, and exposing system-wide mutation logs in real time.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define long-term technical and organizational roadmap for Data Infrastructure aligned with business objectives.
• Direct-manage, coach, and elevate Engineering Managers and Principal Engineers fostering ownership and technical excellence.
• Collaborate with Product Directors, Principal Architects, and stakeholders to unblock product teams with robust data APIs.
• Partner with Group Tech Lead to evaluate infrastructure trade-offs ensuring scalability and maintainability.
• Prioritize continuous value delivery, overcoming system limitations with creative engineering.

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