Director of Engineering
7 days ago
Birmingham
Director of Engineering UK Remote (must be based in the UK) £110,000 – £125,000 + Equity + Bonus 🌍 Growing start-up | Build a team | Series B funded This is a fantastic opportunity to join a mission-driven company at the forefront of observability and developer experience. As Director of Engineering (Observability and Product), you’ll play a key role in shaping our observability strategy, scaling product-focused engineering teams, and enabling the organisation to build and deliver software that is secure, reliable, and fast. Note: This position focusses on customer facing observability and product delivery, than focusing on internal platform observability. 🎯 Key Details: This is primarily a leadership role, but you’ll remain hands-on with technical and strategic decisions. We’re looking for someone who has grown with a fast-paced start-up or scale-up, for example, from SEED through Series A or B funding rounds. You should be confident driving technical direction while building and scaling high-performing engineering teams. Experience with observability platforms, monitoring stacks, and building product-led infrastructure will make you stand out. 🛠 Key Responsibilities of the Role: • Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of our observability and product engineering function, • Build and scale teams focused on monitoring, reliability, and developer experience, • Define best practices for metrics, logging, and tracing across distributed systems, • Partner closely with engineering, product and platform teams to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable products, • Take ownership of optimising the processes for gathering, storing, and analysing high-volume telemetry and network data, • Guide the architectural vision and ongoing development of our observability platform, supporting tech leads in making design decisions while safeguarding resilience, scalability, and data integrity. ✅ What You’ll Bring: • Demonstrated leadership experience in scaling engineering teams in high-growth environments, • 10+ years of engineering experience, 5+ years in a managerial role, • Proven track record of building and scaling distributed systems and ensuring high availability, • Strong background with cloud platforms (AWS preferred), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code, • History of delivering and finishing projects on-time, with clear examples of high-output execution, • History of managing and growing remote/international teams, • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to connect technical detail to business value 💡 Bonus if you have: • Telemetry, Monitoring, Networking, Infrastructure, Alerting, Dashboarding, • Familiarity with AI/ML-driven monitoring or observability tools, • Strong background in Python, Golang, or Java for building internal services, • Skilled in using data platforms for telemetry and analytics, such as Grafana, Postgres, ClickHouse, Kafka, and Elastic, • Deep understanding of distributed computing, systems performance, and reliability engineering, • Knowledgeable about OpenTelemetry and related industry standards. 🙌 What’s on Offer • Salary up to £125k + equity + bonus, • 100% remote from anywhere in the UK, • Unlimited holiday, • Company-wide events and team socials, • Travel to the US, Europe for team events and tech conferences, • High-trust, high-impact culture, • Work with cutting-edge observability and developer productivity tools in a collaborative, fast-moving environment, • Supportive team with strong learning and development culture Interview Process: • Intro chat, • Technical Interview, • Panel interview & meet the team Please Note: This is a UK-remote role. You must be UK-based, and we are unable to offer visa sponsorship at this time.