Director/Senior Director, Engineering

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As an NS1 Director/Sr. Director, Engineering, you will be leveraging your experience building and mentoring teams of engineers to help drive the success of both managers and Individual Contributors by leading a part of our high velocity engineering organization.

About us:

NS1 has transformed the way the internet works by automating the deployment and delivery of the world’s most trafficked internet and enterprise applications. Its application networking stack modernizes DNS, DHCP, and IPAM — the familiar and universal foundations of all network and internet services — to unlock unprecedented automation, visibility, and control. NS1 has more than 600 enterprise customers worldwide, including LinkedIn, Dropbox, and The Guardian, and is backed by investments from Energy Impact Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, Cisco Investments, and GGV Capital.

You will:

  • Directly manage a portion of the engineering team, including engineering managers, with a primary responsibility to manage the growth and performance of your team members.
  • Drive execution excellence. Possess a passion for building and shipping great products. Implement cross-cutting standards across the engineering organization.
  • Own and build the strategy for your individual features / components and driving that in a collaborative fashion with other business stakeholders and communicating this to all aspects of the organization.
  • Identify opportunities for new roles within annual hiring plans. Work with internal recruiting team to attract, interview, hire, and onboard new engineers. Participate in planning of a high performing engineering organization.
  • Participate in delivering and receiving a culture of transparent feedback across all interacting layers of the organization
  • Nurture an environment in the engineering team that aligns with NS1’s core values and supports a space for technical expertise and excellent engineering.

Ideally, you’ll bring:

  • Current experience managing engineers and engineering managers.
  • Demonstrated experience mentoring, growing and promoting individuals on a team, including hiring strategy and practices.
  • Current or prior experience as a software engineer who regularly contributed code to a modern distributed system within a mature product organization.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills. Experience managing distributed global teams.
  • Meticulous organization skills, with strong attention to detail and understanding of intricate cross-dependencies.
  • Resourceful, creative, pragmatic, and empathetic.
  • Directly responsible for building and shipping products
  • Strong passion for customer empathy and bringing that customer empathy to your direct team.
  • Experience in both SaaS and shipped software in enterprise class (Fortune 2,000) environments.
  • Experience in public cloud infrastructure, with shipping software that is specifically infrastructure. Understanding of carrier grade from customer or delivery perspective.
  • Agile methodology experience a plus
  • Must have a valid U.S. work authorization to apply

Working at NS1:

We’re a fast-growing, well-funded startup based in the heart of New York City’s Financial District with offices and team members around the world. Working at NS1, you’ll come to understand our team is unique, both in and out of the workplace. We have PhDs, musicians, artists, and athletes working side by side, dedicated to delivering first class products. We’re hardworking, but we're also a compassionate group. We understand that outside of NS1 is a world that places demands on our time. Our leadership team is dedicated to open and honest communication and we continuously strive to foster a culture of transparency, flexibility, and creativity. We were chosen as one of BuiltinNYC’s Top 50 Startups to watch in 2019 and closed our $40M Series D in July 2020.


Benefits:

For all employees, we offer:

  • Competitive compensation, including new hire and recurring stock options 
  • Flexible hours, time off and work from home options (even prior to COVID-19!)
  • Choice of laptop and supplemental allowance for workstation accessories
  • In house wellness programming and education
  • Access to employee-led affinity and social awareness groups
  • “Funtivities” calendar - employees can participate in culture building workplace activities ranging from happy hours, holiday events and special interest activities 
  • Quarterly giving campaign to charities and social causes

In addition to the above, we offer US Employees:

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Unlimited vacation time with a mandatory minimum utilized each year
  • 401k through Betterment
  • Commuter benefits (which we’ll use even more often once we return to the office!)
  • An outstanding parental leave policy of up to 18 weeks (12 of which can be consecutive)


NS1 champions diversity - we welcome and employ people regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, genetic information, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.


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