Experience
12 - 17 yrs
Job Location
Bengaluru, India
Vacancy
1
Designation
Senior Director Engineering
Job Type
ONSITE
Job Description
What you ll do key responsibilities
- Define and be responsible for the technical vision and multi-year roadmap in alignment with the org strategy.
- Lead, mentor and scale engineering leaders (Directors / Senior Managers) and their teams across architecture, platform, and product engineering.
- Deliver high quality, reliable products set priorities, remove blockers, and ensure engineering execution across multiple teams and geographies.
- Establish and operationalize engineering standards: architecture and system design reviews, SLOs/SLIs, incident management, CI/CD, testing, and observability.
- Own capacity planning, engineering productivity metrics, and engineering budget (headcount, contractors, vendor spend).
- Drive hiring, retention, talent development, succession planning and performance calibration for senior engineering roles.
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science, Security and Business stakeholders to align priorities and deliver measurable business outcomes.
- Be accountable for technical risk management security, compliance, vendor risk, technical debt and scalability.
- Represent the org externally for key hires, vendor negotiations and major cross-org initiatives.
- Develop an inclusive culture that encourages continuous learning, experimentation and data-driven decision making.
What success looks like
- High availability and latency improvements against agreed SLOs for core systems.
- Predictable delivery of major milestones and product launches (on-time, within scope).
- Improved engineering productivity metrics (cycle time, deployment frequency, mean time to recover).
- Successful hiring and retention of senior technical talent; reduction in time-to-fill for critical roles.
- Clear architecture roadmap and measurable reduction in technical debt.
- Strong cross functional collaboration and stakeholder satisfaction.
Required qualifications
- 12+ years of software engineering experience with 6+ years in people leadership (managing managers) at scale.
- Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams (50+ engineers) building distributed systems, high-traffic services or platform infrastructure.
- Strong technical background (system design, cloud architecture, data platforms, performance and security).
- Experience scaling engineering organizations in India (hiring, local talent market dynamics, campus/recruiting).
- Proven success in hiring, mentoring and developing senior leaders.
- Track record driving measurable improvements in reliability, delivery and engineering productivity.
- Excellent stakeholder management able to influence product, business and senior leadership.
- Bachelor s or Master s in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in marketplace / e-commerce / payments or consumer internet companies.
- Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, and large data platforms.
- MBA or equivalent business experience.
- Prior experience with regulatory/compliance requirements relevant to the product area.