Remote Director Cloud Engineering

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SeatGeek

πŸ’΅ $243k-$334k
πŸ“Remote - United States

Job highlights

Summary

Join SeatGeek's team as a Director of Engineering and lead the company's cloud infrastructure, driving technology upgrades and improvements in performance, reliability, and operability. As a member of the product and engineering leadership team, you will contribute to the development of SeatGeek's short and long-term strategy, quarterly goals, yearly plans, and budgets.

Requirements

  • Experience motivating teams to deliver complex, high impact projects in a fast-paced environment
  • The drive to find clarity from roughly scoped ideas and deliver concrete results
  • Ability to design and architect complex, inter-dependent distributed systems
  • Experience as a great cross-functional operator, utilizing influence and indirect authority to deliver results
  • Experience operating in a highly dynamic environment with frequently changing conditions and priorities
  • A strategic ability to assess the bigger picture in pursuit of ambitious goals
  • Ability to self direct towards goals, with high accountability and ownership of results
  • Ability to problem solve, able to quickly digest a problem and evaluate solutions; able to balance competing priorities in alignment with business and department goals
  • Clear and concise communication skills; effective at all levels in an organization
  • Ability to make effective decisions under pressure and promote a calm and considered approach; Assertive when required, able to challenge and be challenged in a constructive and respectful way
  • A high motivation to consistently improve efficiency and quality of delivery

Responsibilities

  • Work with engineering and product leaders across the business to identify high-impact programs of work; then develop concrete plans and recommendations on how best to deliver those programs given time, budget, and staffing constraints
  • Work closely with internal and external stakeholders, customers, and partners to help formulate plans, and evaluate success
  • Use both direct and indirect authority, execute critical projects, make business critical decisions, and provide frequent updates on progress
  • Manage project budgets, risk registers, dependencies, and communication plans
  • Use agile software delivery methods, break larger projects into smaller pieces, strive for incremental delivery
  • Identify key metrics for evaluating the success of your programs of work
  • Operate, monitor, and care for your applications and services in a production environment
  • Recruit and directly manage a team of high-caliber engineers and engineering managers
  • Advocate for the needs of your team(s) in the pursuit of efficacy and efficiency in delivery
  • Create a healthy culture that balances short-term urgency and long-term sustained performance and growth

Benefits

  • Equity stake
  • Flexible work environment, allowing you to work as many days a week in the office as you’d like or 100% remotely
  • A WFH stipend to support your home office setup
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Up to 16 weeks of paid family leave
  • 401(k) matching program
  • Health, vision, dental, and life insurance
  • Up to $25k towards family building services
  • $500 per year for wellness expenses
  • Subscriptions to Headspace (meditation), Headspace Care (therapy), and One Medical
  • Up to $120 per month to spend on tickets to live events
  • Annual subscription to Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon music
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