Director, Engineering - Cloud Observability

Overview

Director of Engineering for Cloud Observability, owning engineering across all clouds and guiding roadmap strategy while leading a large engineering organization.

What you'll do

• Own engineering for all Cloud Observability across clouds.
• Manage ~40 engineers through Engineering Managers as a manager-of-managers role.
• Shape the roadmap with product leadership, pushing back and iterating on strategy.
• Drive AI adoption across the engineering org across tooling, workflows, and team practices.
• Navigate cross-team dependencies across Agent, Telemetry Onboarding, Integrations, Action Platform, and Infrastructure Monitoring.
• Build and retain engineering talent across NYC, Boston, and Paris, mentor Engineering Managers, and participate in the on-call rotation.

What you'll need

• Direct experience managing Engineering Managers.
• Deep experience with one or more cloud providers, ideally operating large-scale cloud systems.
• Understanding of cloud economics and balancing performance and cost.
• Ability to integrate AI deeply into leadership and team engineering practices.
• Track record of shaping product decisions.
• Experience with large-scale event-driven or data-intensive backend systems (ingestion pipelines, high-throughput APIs, or time-series/event data).
• Comfort operating in English in a cross-Atlantic org; based in New York, Boston, or Paris.

Details

• Work mode: hybrid.
• Locations mentioned: New York, Boston, and Paris.
• On-call participation is included.