Group Director – Software Engineering

Role Overview

• Overseeing the delivery and people management for runtime teams at IDC and Traffic Management team globally.
• Leading a team of senior engineering leaders and architects to design, build, and run the next-generation runtime platform at IDC and traffic platform globally.
• Building and nurturing a world-class engineering organization, including recruiting, mentoring, and developing senior architects and engineering leaders to foster a high-performing team.
• Proactively identifying and addressing customer issues, ensuring continuous improvement in platform performance, reliability, and user experience.
• Cultivating a culture of innovation, platform thinking, and engineering excellence, driving continuous improvement in both product development and operational efficiency.
• Configuring a cohesive and integrated offering across runtime technology stack.
• Defining, prioritizing, and executing the product and technology roadmap for Traffic systems, ensuring alignment with broader business objectives.
• Ensuring compliance with global networking and security standards, including DDoS protection and rate limiting.
• Leading edge computing and CDN strategy to optimize traffic distribution and reduce latency.
• Converting CxO level goals into roadmap and initiatives, driving the initiative through strategic decisions.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in managing large-scale platforms, focusing on container and VM management, secrets and configurations platform, traffic, ingress, egress, and network flow.
• Over 10 years of experience in platform development, cloud solutions, and delivering large-scale web events and traffic.
• In-depth knowledge of running large scale Kubernetes and VMs, distributed networking, edge computing, and cloud-native traffic optimization.
• Practical experience with cloud networking (Azure, GCP, AWS), Kubernetes networking, and service mesh technologies (Istio, Envoy, Linkerd).
• Proficient in TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, and application layer traffic.
• Familiar with traffic policies and best practices such as rate limiting, traffic shaping, and DDoS mitigation.
• Proven track record of enhancing operational excellence and achieving service restoration within 5 minutes through observability and automation-enabled service recovery.
• Competent communication and presentation skills for driving vision, motivating teams, and engaging executive leaders.
• Experience with contributing to or delivering open-source products in the traffic and network domain is advantageous.
• Strong collaboration and communication abilities, capable of building robust relationships across cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across functional boundaries, build consensus, and align diverse teams toward shared objectives.
• Success in hiring, mentoring, and developing top-tier engineering talent—establishing high-performance and impactful teams.
• Holds a BS or MS degree in Computer Science (or a related technical field) with over 20 years of industry experience in engineering and technology leadership.
• A strong inclination towards innovation, committed to advancing technology solutions and introducing new methods to address complex challenges.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Google Cloud Platform
• Kubernetes
• TCP/IP

Benefits

• Flexible Work
• Incentive awards for performance
• Health benefits
• Maternity and parental leave
• Paid Time Off (PTO)