Director of Engineering

• Work with customer and product teams to understand and prioritise new requirements
• Develop a holistic understanding of individual employee skill sets and drive resource allocation for customer requirements
• Help drive the recruiting process both in terms of attracting new talent as well as defining and streamlining the recruitment process
• Continuous Process Improvement: Solicit feedback, drive discussion and implement process and workflow improvements
• Provide technical guidance and mitigation for engineering projects
• Build 1:1 rapport with engineers, help identify and fulfil personal aspirations by aligning with larger team goals
• Strong ability to plan, execute and deliver multiple projects across worldwide sites
• Experience with rapidly growing engineering organizations in all aspects of people, resources, tools, and more

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent degree
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• 5+ years of experience leading and managing distributed engineering teams involved in creating complex software products
• 10+ years of relevant experience in managing very senior technical talent in some of the following areas: Networking protocols such as OSPF, BGP, ISIS, MPLS, BFD, MLAG, EVPN, VxLAN, SR-MPLS, SRv6, L3VPN
• Test Harness like Robot framework, Jinja2
• Familiarity network merchant silicon chipsets and whitebox platforms
• Software development of Network Data Path (Linux, virtual and ASIC)
• Virtualization technologies like SR-IOV, Intel DPDK, FD.io, NSX, OVS
• High Availability, ISSU, Linux networking
• Debian Build/Packaging, Linux Kernel, Kernel Networking Stack
• Experience with big data distributed systems (technology: hadoop, kafka, MongoDB, druid, elasticsearch, spark, influxdb, redis)
• DevOps experience with AWS, GCP, Azure or other cloud service
• Manageability frameworks such as Yang/XML

Prior work experience in a venture-backed company

• Generous compensation packages including equity
• Medical Insurance
• Parental Leave