SVP, Engineering
Underdog Fantasy
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $300,000 - $400,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud Platform
About the role
- Set the vision, strategy, and execution plan for all engineering domains (product engineering, data engineering, ML, security, infrastructure, IT), aligned with business goals
- Build, mentor, and grow high-performing engineering leaders and teams (managers, tech leads, ICs) across ~150+ engineers
- Drive performance management: ensure consistent feedback, coaching, goal setting, and development plans
- Establish clear metrics and accountability for engineering health (e.g. uptime, latency, MTTR, deployment frequency, error budgets)
- Oversee the technical architecture, platform roadmap, and infrastructure investments to scale the product and data stack
- Maintain strong collaboration with Product and Design: co-own planning, prioritization, tradeoffs, and delivery
- Own security, compliance, governance, and data privacy at the enterprise level
- Elevate operational excellence by helping strengthen CI/CD, observability, incident response, and technical debt reduction to improve productivity and reliability
- Manage budgets, resource allocations, vendor & tooling decisions
- Modernize engineering practices by driving adoption of AI-assisted development, automation, and continuous improvement in delivery pipelines
- Champion cultural and organizational shifts needed to scale engineering velocity and quality
- Represent engineering externally in engagements with regulators, industry groups, and key strategic partners
- Act as a culture carrier: embed Underdog values (ambition, urgency, ownership, teamwork) in how engineering operates
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in leadership roles within high-impact engineering organizations, ideally in fast-paced, consumer or data-intensive environments
- Proven track record scaling engineering teams through multiple phases of growth
- Deep expertise in technical domains including data infrastructure tooling, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP), security, and large-scale distributed systems
- Experience in both strategic and hands-on contexts: able to dive into architecture, code reviews, design when needed
- A strong performance management mindset: coaching, career paths, accountability, metrics-driven
- Exceptional at cross-functional partner relationships, especially with Product, Design, and business stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills—able to distill complexity for executives, and inspire engineers
- Bias for action, ownership, urgency, and continuous improvement
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- A $500 home office allowance
- A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
- 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
data engineeringmachine learningsecurityinfrastructurecloud infrastructureAWSGCPCI/CDobservabilitylarge-scale distributed systems
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringperformance managementcoachingcommunicationcross-functional collaborationaccountabilitycontinuous improvementcultural shiftteamwork