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 allows engineers and security professionals to unify access for SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, web applications, and databases across all environments.