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Director of Engineering, Core & Ads Serving Platform

San Francisco

SpringCube

Full-time - Director+

Animation & Graphics Design

Posted 4 weeks ago

Disclosed upon interview

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Job Description

The SpringCube team curated the following job opportunity to help you in your job search. Explore the position below to find your next career move.

Company Overview

A leading global visual discovery platform helps millions of people around the world find creative ideas, explore new possibilities, and plan meaningful experiences. The organization is focused on inspiring people to create a life they love while building an inclusive, innovative, and flexible workplace.

The organization also embraces artificial intelligence as a powerful tool to augment creativity, improve productivity, and amplify engineering impact. Employees are encouraged to use AI thoughtfully while maintaining strong standards for accuracy, technical judgment, and collaboration.

The organization is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the strategic vision and execution for its Core and Ads Serving Platform. This role will oversee the infrastructure responsible for high-scale, low-latency delivery of content and advertisements across the platform’s surfaces.

The successful candidate will define the multi-year architecture and technical direction required to ensure serving systems remain reliable, performant, and cost-efficient while enabling rapid innovation across product and machine learning teams.

Key Responsibilities

  • Set the long-term technical and operational vision for the Core and Ads Serving Platform, aligning infrastructure investments with broader business strategy.
  • Lead a high-performing organization of engineers and managers while fostering a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and rapid delivery.
  • Partner with senior Product, Machine Learning, and Infrastructure leaders to establish priorities, resolve technical trade-offs, and ensure platform capabilities support strategic business objectives.
  • Drive modernization initiatives across the serving stack to improve reliability, latency, and cost efficiency.
  • Enable product teams to iterate and deliver new capabilities more rapidly through scalable and dependable platform infrastructure.
  • Establish and monitor clear metrics for platform success, including latency, availability, and cost per impression.
  • Hold engineering organizations accountable for achieving operational and technical performance targets.
  • Leverage AI to accelerate platform analysis, architectural design iteration, system debugging, and documentation synthesis.
  • Ensure AI-assisted engineering workflows maintain high standards for accuracy, reliability, and technical quality.
  • Translate business objectives into scalable technical strategies and multi-year engineering roadmaps.

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience leading or managing large engineering organizations, including setting strategic direction, driving execution, and supporting the professional growth of team members.
  • 8+ years of relevant industry experience.
  • Extensive experience leading engineering organizations responsible for large-scale serving or delivery infrastructure.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, scalability, reliability, and performance trade-offs.
  • Proven ability to translate business goals into technical roadmaps and successfully execute complex, multi-year initiatives.
  • Exceptional leadership skills with demonstrated ability to develop engineering leaders and build high-trust, high-accountability environments.
  • Strong commitment to inclusivity, collaboration, and organizational development.
  • Demonstrated experience using AI- or LLM-powered tools to improve engineering velocity and quality.
  • Strong judgment regarding the validation and responsible use of AI-generated outputs.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to influence senior cross-functional stakeholders and clearly communicate complex technical trade-offs to non-technical audiences.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

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