Director of Engineering
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Director of Engineering at Harbor Compliance driving software delivery and operational excellence through strategic leadership. Building high-performing teams and ensuring reliability in complex systems.
Responsibilities:
- 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

















