Harbor IT

Director of Engineering

Harbor IT

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $186,889 - $207,654 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Drive roadmap delivery predictability by ensuring quarterly commitments are met through disciplined planning and execution.
  • Maintain world-class service reliability for owned systems, targeting 99.95% uptime and proactive incident management.
  • Foster operational excellence by establishing rigorous postmortem processes and continuously improving the mean time to restore services.
  • Oversee engineering quality and throughput by implementing standards that minimize defect escape rates and optimize deployment frequency.
  • Build and sustain a high-density talent environment, through active coaching and effective hiring.
  • Manage the engineering budget and resources with precision, ensuring headcount plans and infrastructure spend align with organizational goals.
  • Establish a robust code review and documentation ecosystem that ensures high standards, architectural clarity, and rapid knowledge sharing.
  • Cultivate deep cross-functional partnerships with Product, Operations, and Finance to align priorities and resolve complex trade-offs.

Requirements

  • 10 or more years of experience in software engineering or a closely related technical domain.
  • 4 or more years of experience leading other leaders, including managing Engineering Managers and Tech Leads.
  • Proven track record of owning the delivery and reliability of complex, large-scale production systems.
  • Demonstrated expertise in organizational design, team scaling, and performance management within an engineering context.
  • Mastery of the full software development life cycle, including estimation, release management, and incident response.
  • Strong architectural competence with a focus on service boundaries, scalability, and resiliency patterns.
  • Experience implementing operational excellence frameworks such as SLO thinking, monitoring, and alerting.
  • Ability to guide security fundamentals and secure SDLC practices, ensuring robust vulnerability management and risk awareness.
Benefits
  • health benefits
  • flexible paid time off
  • parental leave
  • fertility and adoption assistance
  • 401(k)
  • educational reimbursement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringservice reliabilityincident managementpostmortem processesdefect escape ratesdeployment frequencycode reviewdocumentationsoftware development life cyclesecure SDLC practices
Soft Skills
coachingeffective hiringcross-functional partnershipsorganizational designteam scalingperformance managementplanningexecutionbudget managementcommunication