[Remote] Director, Software Engineering

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Commerce is a company that empowers businesses to innovate and grow through its AI-driven commerce ecosystem. The Director of Software Engineering for Platform & Infrastructure will lead a distributed team, shape infrastructure strategy, and modernize development practices to enhance developer productivity and system reliability.

Responsibilities

• Shape the Strategy: Partner with engineering leadership to help define and execute the roadmap for infrastructure unification, establishing modern operational standards across the entire global organization
• Modernize Architecture: Drive our continued evolution toward cloud-native, containerized, and highly orchestrated environments
• Scale Distributed Systems: Ensure our core data and messaging layers are optimized for global scale
• Remove Friction: Lead developer productivity engineering to drastically reduce cycle times across build, test, deploy, and observability workflows
• Elevate Quality: Ensure that technical decisions inherently support world-class performance, reliability, availability, and security without sacrificing developer velocity
• Grow the Organization: Coach, mentor, and elevate engineering managers and technical leaders, building a sustainable leadership pipeline within your organization
• Global Talent Acquisition: Drive hiring strategies to attract, retain, and diverse top-tier engineering talent
• Foster Collaboration: Champion a high-trust, productive feedback culture where engineers are empowered to speak up, experiment, and challenge the status quo

Skills

• 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years managing teams (managing through managers)
• Proven ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders across distributed teams in Australia, North America, and Europe
• Demonstrated track record of driving complex, ambiguous initiatives from conception through production
• Expertise in the architecture, operation, and evolution of large-scale, cloud-native SaaS infrastructure
• Proficient with containerization, orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code
• Hands-on experience optimizing global performance and security using modern edge platforms like Cloudflare
• A strong technical foundation building at scale
• Ability to evaluate system design tradeoffs, conduct high-level code reviews, and identify application weaknesses

Benefits

• Variable compensation (such as bonus or commission)
• Equity
• Benefits in accordance with local policies

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