Director, Software Engineering - Internal Only

As the Director of Engineering for Sourcing, you would partner with your product, science and UX counterparts to build systems that help move the talent marketplace for Indeed products worldwide.  Sourcing helps employers that are seeking to find unique talent that meets their needs. Your role is to ensure that the engineering group you run is building a highly scalable, available and resilient platform with associated ML/AI components that work to deliver experiences for jobseekers and employers. The goal is to fulfill the need of partner product, feature teams within Indeed in the US and internationally. 

You would work with leaders across cross-functional areas and the SLT (Senior Leadership Team) to help accomplish our mission. The team is located in the US, Japan and India as well. In conjunction with your product, science and UX counterparts, you would be responsible for managing a team with multiple senior managers and senior technical ICs such as a Tech Fellow. You will report into a VP of engineering based out of the US. 

You would provide technical leadership and guidance and help facilitate the team in building out new capabilities and systems so that they drive efficiency of execution while solving for scale, resilience, and reliability at the same time. 

You would coach and grow technical leaders and help them be successful individual contributors or managers at Indeed. You would partner with other technical leaders, provide thought leadership, and help accomplish initiatives outside the immediate scope of responsibility through influence or guidance. You will align many internal partners across product, engineering, science, and the business.

• Own the vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for a group of engineering teams in partnership with product, design, data, and other business partners.
• Guide a distributed organization across multiple locations and remote environments to deliver against defined priorities.
• Establish organizational structures and operating models that enable teams to self-organize, maintain predictable delivery, and sustain healthy velocity.
• Mentor and grow engineering managers, senior engineers, and technical leaders, building leadership depth across the organization.
• Influence engineering standards, execution practices, and technical direction beyond your immediate group.

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field and a minimum of 15 years of related experience; or a Master’s degree with a minimum of 12 years of experience; or a PhD with  8 years experience
• Experience as a senior software engineer with exposure to building and operating complex, large-scale systems.
• 8+ years of experience managing and managing software engineering teams, including managers and senior technical leaders.
• Proven experience delivering large-scale systems across multiple teams while establishing effective engineering practices, processes, and culture.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a track record of partnering effectively with leaders in product, reliability, data, and design functions.
• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills with solid track record working with leaders in product, site reliability, data science, and UX

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Tier 1 - United States of America $195,000 - 293,000 USD per yearTier 2 - United States of America $216,000 - 324,000 USD per yearTier 3 - United States of America $239,000 - 359,000 USD per yearTier 4 - United States of America N/ATier 5 - United States of America $272,000 - 408,000 USD per year

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