Director of Engineering
Teleport is looking for a Director of Engineering to define the technology roadmap and drive on-time delivery in collaboration with the product team. This role requires strong leadership to motivate and scale the engineering team while ensuring alignment with short- and long-term technology goals. The ideal candidate should also have experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, QA automation, release management, and leveraging AI for engineering productivity.
Responsibilities:
- Define and execute the technology roadmap in alignment with business objectives.
- Work closely with product teams to ensure on-time delivery and improve engineering efficiency.
- Lead and mentor a team of 35-50 engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and innovation.
- Define and track OKRs for the engineering team to drive measurable impact.
- Collaborate with architects to design and implement next-generation scalable and cloud-native architecture.
- Implement DevOps best practices, ensuring high availability, scalability, and efficient CI/CD pipelines.
- Ensure adherence to observability best practices and monitor system performance effectively.
- Set up and lead a QA automation team, ensuring end-to-end test automation and release stability.
- Define and enforce release best practices to ensure smooth and risk-free deployments.
- Leverage AI-driven tools and automation to enhance developer productivity and optimize workflows.
- Stay hands-on with critical system components, providing technical leadership when needed.
- 12+ years of experience in backend development, cloud-native architecture, and large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, MongoDB, Cassandra.
- Exposure to Python (good to have).
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and cloud-native services.
- Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
- Proven ability to set up and scale a QA automation team with modern testing frameworks.
- Experience in release management, ensuring smooth and risk-free software rollouts.
- Ability to identify AI-driven automation opportunities to enhance engineering productivity.
- Proven experience in leading mid-to-large engineering teams (35-50 members).
- Strong strategic mindset to plan and execute both short-term and long-term technology goals.
Preferred Qualification:
- Experience in the logistics or e-commerce domain is a plus.
- Strong problem-solving mindset with a data-driven decision-making approach.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
If you're passionate about building scalable systems, defining OKRs, driving AI-powered engineering productivity, and leading high-performing teams, we’d love to hear from you!
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Teleport is on the lookout for a dynamic and experienced Director of Engineering to join our innovative team. In this pivotal role, you'll be shaping our technology roadmap, working alongside our product team to ensure projects are delivered on time and exceed expectations. Your leadership will not only inspire our engineering team of 35-50 talented individuals but will also foster a culture of accountability and creativity. We want someone with a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, QA automation, and release management, as well as a knack for leveraging AI to enhance productivity. In this role, you'll define and track OKRs, collaborate with architects to design cutting-edge cloud-native architectures, and implement best practices for DevOps and quality assurance. Your hands-on approach with critical systems will provide the technical leadership needed as we pursue ambitious short- and long-term technology goals. If you're excited about building scalable systems and driving performance through AI-driven solutions, we’d love to hear from you!
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