RunPod

Senior Director of Software Engineering – Product & Platform Delivery

RunPod

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $225,000 - $325,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Lead multiple engineering teams responsible for shipping new features and improving Runpod’s customer experience across console, APIs, and developer workflows. Ensure predictable, high-velocity execution.
  • Partner with Program management, Product and GTM to shape strategy, define quarterly goals, and convert requirements into clear technical scopes, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
  • Hire, mentor, and grow engineering managers and senior ICs. Create a culture of ownership, speed, and craft in a remote-first environment.
  • Run feature lifecycle processes - discovery support, design/architecture reviews, build phases, QA and rollout plans, release comms, and post-launch iteration.
  • Drive measurable improvements in delivery and reliability through metrics such as cycle time, throughput, defect failure rate, incident frequency, escape defects, adoption, and retention.
  • Ensure engineering work aligns to user impact and business value. Constantly leverage customer insights, product analytics, and operational data to refine priorities.
  • Balance speed and reliability by improving automated testing, staging/preview environments, observability for product surfaces, and regression prevention.
  • Provide architectural oversight for product systems (backend services, APIs, user workflows, integrations), ensuring scalability and coherence without bottlenecking teams.
  • Coordinate dependencies cleanly with infra/SRE teams to ensure high quality product delivery.

Requirements

  • 7+ years leading software engineering teams including managers and/or multiple squads (80+ person group), with a proven record of shipping customer-facing products.
  • Demonstrated ability to take complex roadmap goals from concept through launch, balancing scope, risk, timelines, and quality.
  • 8+ years building SaaS, platforms, or developer-facing products. Comfortable with modern backend stacks and pragmatic architectural decisions.
  • Experience building culture, accountability, and momentum across distributed teams.
  • Strong use of delivery metrics (cycle time, throughput, escape defects, reliability, adoption), and experience improving team flow.
  • Clear written and verbal communication, strong stakeholder management, and calm leadership through ambiguity.
  • Successful completion of a background check.
Benefits
  • Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company- everyone on the team receives stock options — your impact drives our growth, and you share in the upside.
  • Generous medical, dental & vision plans — we cover 100% for all employees and partial for dependents.
  • Flexible PTO- take the time you need to recharge
  • Most roles are remote work first with an inclusive, collaborative teams utilizing slack as the main form of internal communication
  • $1,200 Home Office & Equipment Stipend- We set you up for success from day one with gear and support to create your ideal workspace
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