Top Director of Engineering Jobs in NYC, NY

Leads the engineering organization responsible for modeling, rendering, simulation, distributed computing, and quality. Owns platform roadmap execution, manages engineering managers, accelerates AI-assisted software development, improves delivery and testing processes, and balances zero-to-one product development with ongoing releases. Partners with Product and represents platform engineering to company leadership. Requires deep technical credibility and a proven record of organizational transformation, product delivery, and engineering leadership.

Leads full-stack engineering and AI modernization initiatives, designing scalable enterprise applications and architecture. Responsibilities include coding, testing, technical discovery, application modernization, security and privacy integration, engineering standards, mentoring, stakeholder consulting, and strategic technology leadership. The role requires collaboration across product, operations, data, and security teams while balancing innovation, platform stability, and delivery commitments.

Leads a 60-person engineering organization, managing seven engineering managers and owning delivery, staffing, organizational health, manager development, operating strategy, technical roadmap, and AI adoption. Establishes engineering KPIs using Linear, DORA, and reliability metrics; improves delivery predictability and system reliability; guides architecture and capacity allocation; and ships production AI or agentic initiatives with standards for security, cost, observability, and reliability.

Leads engineering standards, architecture governance, platform strategy, technical quality, security and compliance engineering, and production AI governance across CSL Plasma’s digital products. Manages cross-domain technical teams, sets cloud and integration direction, owns shared engineering platforms and data architecture, and ensures reliable, scalable, regulated software delivery. The role also drives AI-assisted development, production AI operations, engineering metrics, talent development, and alignment with enterprise architecture and cybersecurity.

Lead engineering teams responsible for Life360’s critical platforms, including location and messaging, cloud infrastructure, identity, and partner ecosystems. Set technical direction, modernize legacy systems, improve reliability and scalability, establish engineering metrics, and develop engineering managers and technical leaders. Partner with Product, Security, Data, and Engineering leadership to align technical investments with business outcomes while supporting secure, high-performing systems serving millions of users.

Leads data engineering teams while designing and optimizing scalable batch and real-time data pipelines on cloud platforms. Responsibilities include developing PySpark and Spark workflows, orchestrating Airflow DAGs, managing cloud infrastructure, implementing CI/CD, improving data quality and performance, and mentoring engineers. The role collaborates with clients, product, architecture, and program management teams, while applying generative AI and DevOps practices to improve engineering productivity and operational efficiency.

Leads engineering vision and execution for a scalable B2B brokerage platform. Responsibilities include solution architecture, platform and ledger capabilities, strategic product delivery, engineering team leadership, AI and automation adoption, cross-functional collaboration, and operational excellence. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, microservices, cloud and container technologies, Java, Kafka, databases, financial services technology, brokerage platforms, and modernization of legacy systems.

Leads platform engineering across learner and enterprise products, setting architecture direction, integrating AI and data capabilities, managing engineering managers and teams, and improving quality, reliability, security, accessibility, and delivery. Partners with product, design, IT, cloud operations, sales, and executives on strategy, planning, budgets, and enterprise SaaS outcomes.

Leads enterprise software engineering, solution architecture, data and reporting strategy for business applications supporting Human Capital, Finance, Supply Chain, and workforce management. Establishes roadmaps, engineering standards, governance, architecture, quality practices, and secure reporting capabilities. Directs cross-functional delivery, prioritization, lifecycle improvements, stakeholder alignment, and organizational development while hiring and managing engineering leaders and teams.

Lead and scale the engineering organization during rapid growth. Responsibilities include hiring and coaching engineering managers, designing organizational structures across time zones, establishing planning and performance processes, partnering with leadership on workforce strategy, and representing engineering externally. The role requires technical judgment in applied AI and production infrastructure, experience scaling engineering teams, strong communication, and on-site work in New York City.

Leads engineering strategy, architecture, and delivery for operational risk platforms, controls, event management, monitoring, and workflow tooling. Directs agile engineering teams, establishes scalable and resilient solutions, standardizes risk taxonomies, and promotes AI-driven automation. Partners with risk, compliance, product, data, and business stakeholders to prioritize roadmaps, strengthen controls, maintain operational resilience, and deliver high-quality engineering outcomes.

Leads the global Engineering Standards & Safety function for mission-critical data centers. Establishes engineering standards, operating boundaries, asset-acceptance criteria, safety requirements, control and alarm philosophies, and technical risk-acceptance governance. Oversees multidisciplinary engineering teams, validates technical methods, collaborates with regional operations and construction stakeholders, monitors standards adoption, and escalates systemic risks. The role also manages resources, budgets, workforce planning, senior stakeholder communication, and global technical governance across electrical, mechanical, controls, fire, and life-safety disciplines.

Leads a hands-on software engineering organization developing AI-enabled legal automation platforms. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, reviewing architecture and code, owning delivery and platform reliability, managing distributed teams, translating legal workflow requirements into scalable systems, and partnering with product, legal operations, executives, vendors, and clients. The role requires oversight of multi-tenant security, AI capabilities, Agile delivery, hiring, mentoring, and engineering quality.

Lead the Fan Experience engineering team building consumer-facing ticket discovery and purchasing features across web and mobile. This hands-on role involves coding, mentoring, hiring, owning the engineering roadmap, improving velocity through AI tools and internal platforms, partnering with Product and Design, managing technical risks and debt, and delivering measurable marketplace outcomes. The manager will guide full-stack architecture, experimentation, quality, and cross-team technical initiatives.

Leads global engineering strategy, architecture, modernization, delivery, and operational resilience for workplace technology platforms. Oversees teams building applications, integrations, APIs, data products, and cloud-native services supporting workplace experience, facilities, real estate, reservations, visitor management, and physical security. Partners with executives and business stakeholders to establish roadmaps, engineering standards, security, scalability, and reliability. The role also manages Genetec-based access control and CCTV capabilities and applies AI and automation to improve workplace operations.

Leads solution engineering and customer support operations for a digital health data platform. Responsibilities include building distributed engineering and support teams, leading technical pre-sales, designing customer data solutions, managing architecture and handoffs, owning post-launch support and incident resolution, establishing SLAs and operational metrics, overseeing vendors and budgets, and partnering with Product and Platform Engineering to improve reliability and reduce support demand.

Leads software development, QA, and DevOps for a digital insurance platform. Owns engineering roadmaps, delivery governance, architecture, code quality, security, testing, release reliability, and operational improvement. Manages and develops a small engineering team, partners with product and business stakeholders, evaluates technical risks, and guides responsible AI-assisted development. The role requires hands-on technical judgment across modern application architecture, Azure cloud services, CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, and secure software delivery.

Leads and builds VulcanForms’ Applications Engineering function, connecting customer requirements to manufacturing capabilities. Responsibilities include hiring and developing the team, establishing feasibility and requirements processes, qualifying opportunities, overseeing design concepts, documenting technical constraints, supporting proposals and strategic pursuits, and translating customer needs for product development and manufacturing teams. The role requires extensive additive manufacturing expertise, technical sales leadership, customer relationship skills, and experience with manufacturing costs and pricing.

Leads HYPR’s engineering organization and owns the technology vision, strategy, execution, security, reliability, and performance of its identity assurance platform. Partners with product and engineering leaders on roadmaps, technology decisions, processes, and scalable services. Builds a high-performing engineering culture through mentoring, coaching, succession planning, and talent retention.

Leads multiple software engineering teams supporting claims and other technology areas. Responsibilities include hiring and mentoring staff, budgeting, roadmap planning, architecture, hands-on delivery, security and compliance, performance optimization, modernization, CI/CD, technical strategy, and executive communication. The role requires driving scalable distributed systems, cloud transformation, operational excellence, and adoption of engineering best practices.

Leads a 40-person distributed systems engineering organization responsible for Elasticsearch scalability, performance, resilience, architecture, and Serverless capabilities. Develops long-term strategy, oversees complex cross-team initiatives, manages engineering managers and senior technical leaders, drives hiring and organizational planning, resolves critical operational issues, and communicates priorities to executives. Requires deep distributed systems expertise, large-scale software engineering experience, strong operational judgment, and proven organizational leadership.

Lead Patreon’s Payments engineering team, setting technical direction and roadmap priorities for billing, checkout, payout, compliance, and payment infrastructure. Drive reliability initiatives, international payment expansion, vendor and build-versus-buy decisions, and cross-functional planning. Manage and develop a 10–12-person engineering team, oversee hiring and performance, and deliver reliable, high-quality payment experiences for creators and fans.

Leads a distributed engineering organization of approximately 20 engineers building Fanatics’ customer-facing iCasino applications, content management, and personalization systems. Owns delivery, architecture, reliability, observability, testing, incident response, roadmap execution, organizational design, hiring, and leadership development. Partners with Product, Design, and TPM teams while driving cross-organization initiatives and resolving ambiguous technical and operational challenges.

Leads multiple software engineering teams responsible for Priceline’s flight shopping platform. Sets technology strategy, architecture, operational practices, and multi-team roadmaps while partnering with product and commercial stakeholders. Manages and develops engineering managers and senior individual contributors, drives cross-functional execution, and advances AI-enabled engineering practices. Requires extensive software engineering leadership, cloud experience with GCP and AWS, system architecture expertise, and experience managing global organizations.

Leads Butterfly Network’s Quality Engineering and DevOps functions, including test automation, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, release management, cloud reliability, observability, SRE, and developer tooling. Builds and manages distributed QA and DevOps teams while establishing quality gates, compliance processes, security practices, incident response, and operational standards for regulated medical-device software.