Director of Product Engineering Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Director of Product Engineering to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Help your team balance keeping the lights on with long-term, high-impact investments;
- Drive technical architecture and process decisions to ensure the continued health of the overall system;
- Help build a diverse and highly skilled team able to keep up with a rapidly growing product;
- Improve the reliability, efficiency and operability of fault-tolerant distributed systems;
- Help the team build and maintain our distributed, high-throughput, real-time data pipeline, implemented as a set of Go microservices;
- Work directly with the VP of Engineering and CTO and your team to define and evolve our architecture;
- Lead the team to continuously improve our operating processes;
- Ensure we have the tools in place to observe and understand our systems in production;
- Set goals and hold constraints to ensure the health and continuing improvement of the system;
- Ensure we run a cost-effective service, monitor and make changes to hit spending targets;
- Travel, including international travel, may be required;
- Manage beta programs, author documentation and track customer issues;
- Interface with R&D team to drive and influence product development to fulfill customer requirements;
- Drive key customer engagements in cooperation with local/international Field Applications team.
Requirements:
- Experience building on AWS and ensuring cost-effective utilization;
- Experience building and maintaining real-time, large-scale production systems;
- Experience in managing and leading a team;
- A history of setting and achieving operational goals;
- Candidate must have 8+ years relevant industry experience with a MSEE -or- 12+ years experience with a BSEE;
- Excellent oral and written communication skills;
- Knowledge of 3D computational electromagnetics;
- Requires in-depth knowledge & industry experience in signal/power integrity and analysis.