Director Engineering - WebAssembly
About The Position
Are you a highly experienced engineering leader? Do you want an opportunity to lead an amazing team of engineers? Join our Edge Apps Engineering group! This Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) team builds on the cutting-edge WebAssembly (Wasm) ecosystem. Our platform is highly distributed, positioned to redefine edge compute by offering a high-performance, secure, and language-agnostic alternative to AWS Lambda @ Edge and Cloudflare Workers. Partner with the best As a Director of Engineering, you will be responsible for the end-to-end engineering lifecycle, from the architectural design of our global runtime to the operational implementation of our SRE practices.
Requirements
- Have 12 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or its equivalent.
- Have a proven track record of delivering high-quality, resilient, supportable software, ideally having reached a Staff or Principal level.
- Demonstrate experience building and scaling high-throughput distributed systems that directly serve live production traffic.
- Possess familiarity with serverless computing paradigms and modern cloud-native architectures (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Have an understanding of SRE principles, including error budgets, SLIs/SLOs, and automated incident management.
- Have proficiency in IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation) and modern CI/CD frameworks (GitHub Actions, CloudBees, Jenkins).
Responsibilities
- Supporting the technical strategy for our next-generation product infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security for millions of concurrent executions.
- Owning the platform's end-to-end SLOs, upholding high standards for system availability, latency, and performance through a robust SRE practice.
- Developing and executing observability strategy and roadmap that aligns with SLO targets.
- Overseeing contributions to/investments in the open-source Wasm-based runtime and tooling, as well as our proprietary control and data-planes.
- Driving the implementation of secure, automated CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates to ensure consistent global delivery.
Benefits
- opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things.
- benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future.
- benefits surrounding all aspects of your life: Your health Your finances Your family Your time at work Your time pursuing other endeavors
- benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.
- healthcare
- 401K savings plan
- company holidays
- vacation (in the form of PTO)
- sick time
- family friendly benefits including parental leave
- employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
