Overview

Senior Director of Engineering at Alembic Technologies. Build and scale the product engineering organization, leading backend, frontend, data infrastructure, and site reliability teams. Report to the CTO and own engineering strategy, architecture, team development, and delivery.

Base pay range

$247,000.00/yr - $247,000.00/yr

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Define and execute the engineering roadmap in alignment with Alembic’s product, data, and go-to-market objectives.
• Team Building & Culture: Recruit, mentor, and develop a world-class engineering team. Foster a collaborative, high-performance culture.
• Scalable Architecture: Architect and oversee robust, scalable systems including data ingestion pipelines, workflow engines, complex algorithms, generative AI models, as well as cloud-based and on-premise systems.
• Delivery Excellence: Ensure high code quality, reliability, security and compliance, and operational maturity (CI/CD, monitoring, observability).
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with Product and GTM teams to deliver features that resonate with enterprise customers.
• Technical Oversight: Lead tech stack evaluations, enforce best practices (testing, documentation, architecture reviews), and champion innovation.

Must-Have Qualifications

• 10+ years in engineering roles, with ≥ 5 years in leadership (engineering manager, director, or VP).
• Proven ability to build and scale cloud-native, data-intensive SaaS enterprise systems.
• Deep experience with large-scale data pipelines, AI/ML infrastructure, and big data technologies.
• Strong track record of hiring and scaling engineering teams in startups (roughly 10–100 employees).
• Excellent communication skills with a track record of working across functions.
• Startup mindset—comfortable with rapid pivots, tight delivery cycles, and wearing multiple hats.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience in distributed systems and large-scale platforms.
• Knowledge of LLM-powered pipelines, inference at scale, or real-time analytics.
• Experience working with enterprise sales and deploying to enterprise customer environments.

What You’ll Enjoy

• An early seat on an AI-driven, mission-critical platform serving the world’s largest companies.
• Direct impact on our engineering culture and technological direction.
• High visibility and collaboration with the executive team.
• A culture centered on high integrity, shipping quickly, and problem solving at scale.

Location

San Francisco, CA

Employment type

• Full-time

Seniority level

• Director

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Software Development

Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Alembic Technologies. Get notified about new Senior Director of Engineering jobs in San Francisco, CA.