Top Director of Engineering Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead multiple engineering teams delivering enterprise API and integration platform capabilities. Set technical vision, align engineering strategy with product goals, drive DevOps/observability adoption, manage vendor relationships, recruit and coach engineering managers, and ensure delivery of enterprise data and reporting services.

Lead platform engineering teams to design, build, operate, and run OCI-native services for IoT and Connected Devices. Own service reliability, architecture, releases, incident response, KPIs, talent development, and cross-functional delivery of scalable, production-grade cloud services.

The Sr. Director of Applications Engineering will lead a team in developing photonics solutions, engage with clients, mentor engineers, and ensure effective technical communication.

Lead high-complexity privacy engineering initiatives across DuckDuckGo products. Own privacy reviews, audits, and technical programs from definition to delivery; build automation and privacy-preserving infrastructure; evolve triage and review processes; drive cross-functional projects; and hire and mentor privacy engineering talent while shaping company-wide privacy strategy.

Lead multiple engineering teams and Engineering Managers to deliver scalable landlord-facing products. Drive technical strategy, architecture, execution discipline, and product partnership. Improve delivery predictability, team health, hiring, and leadership development to ensure high-impact, reliable systems that support multifamily operators and landlord workflows.

Lead and scale the web platform engineering organization, owning architecture, quality, embedded web experiences, performance, CI/CD, reliability, and people leadership across web engineering.

The Director of Engineering leads high-performing squads to deliver quality software solutions, providing technical leadership and ensuring adherence to standards while collaborating with product and QA teams.

Lead and scale a multi-team engineering organization owning Billing, TMS, WMS, and LMS. Manage five engineering managers and a Principal Engineer, drive billing automation, deliver a standalone TMS/Parcel system, improve network LMS efficiency, and ensure WMS reliability and international scalability. Build cross-functional partnerships with Finance and Parcel, make organizational design decisions, coach managers, and prioritize technical investments to deliver measurable cost and revenue outcomes.

Lead the national Data Center delivery practice, owning end-to-end delivery of compute, storage, data protection, hybrid cloud, and GPU/AI infrastructure. Build and scale a high-performing delivery organization, ensure on-time/on-budget executions, define repeatable delivery frameworks, and collaborate with sales, solutions architecture, and technology partners to support large-scale, multi-site deployments.

Lead Alteryx's Infrastructure, SRE, Observability, and Performance Engineering teams. Define technical vision and execution for cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), IaC (Terraform), observability (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana), incident management, SLO/SLI/error budget frameworks, and reliability programs. Partner with Security, Compliance, Product, and Customer Operations to ensure scalable, secure, and highly available SaaS services while building and mentoring engineering leaders.

Lead strategy, engineering, implementation, and operations of enterprise OT telemetry platforms. Ensure availability, security, scalability, and standardization of telemetry services; integrate OT data sources with enterprise and cloud platforms; build and mentor engineering teams; establish operational processes, monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and lifecycle management; evaluate vendor technologies and maintain technical documentation.

The Director of Engineering will lead the development of a new billing platform by setting vision, building a team, and driving execution while enhancing AI-first operational practices.

Lead and own payer enrollment as a business: set goals for enrollment times and success rates, prioritize builds, ship fast, measure outcomes, make technical tradeoffs, hire and develop engineering managers and engineers, and partner with Product, Operations, and Applied AI to automate and scale enrollment workflows.

Lead and streamline engineering management to free the CTO for strategy. Oversee engineering pods, triage technical issues, guide solutions architecture, advocate for technical debt/backlog, and ensure teams ship products quickly while aligning architecture with business goals.

Lead the Hosting Platform engineering team owning roadmap, reliability, scalability, and performance for hundreds of thousands of sites. Mentor managers and senior engineers, drive architecture for distributed, multi-tenant systems (edge delivery, caching, databases), define SLOs and observability, manage incident response and customer escalations, balance technical debt, and champion AI-native engineering and automation.

Lead and grow the engineering organization, drive architecture and roadmap with the CTO, recruit and develop engineers, ship production software, establish processes for speed and quality, and collaborate with clinical stakeholders to translate needs into product.

As Senior Director of Engineering, you will lead a high-impact team to develop and execute platform strategies for AI-based services in clinical trials, ensuring product development and team scalability.

Lead engineering excellence for Marketplace and Auctions products. Drive technical strategy, people development, and delivery outcomes while championing AI engineering practices.

Lead and scale the engineering organization for GiveDirectly's cash delivery platform. Own technical strategy, team structure, hiring, operational excellence (on-call, incidents, testing, deployments), and representation of engineering at senior leadership. Start hands-on managing engineers and partner on roadmap and delivery to scale the platform to billions in transfers.

Own the technical customer relationship for a named account: define product/lease requirements, manage Engineering Change Requests, develop tailored AI data center solutions across compute/GPU/storage/networking, align delivery with internal TPM/BTM teams, influence product roadmap, and support lead generation and solution pitches. Regular travel (~25-30%) and cross-functional leadership required.

Lead and manage multiple engineering teams, design agentic LLM-driven development workflows, set technical strategy and standards, ensure delivery quality, mentor engineers, oversee onboarding and performance reviews, and coordinate cross-team efforts to mitigate risks and maintain system ownership, testing, logging, and monitoring.

Lead Boulevard's cloud infrastructure and reliability practice, driving AWS-based platform architecture, EKS containerization, Terraform/GitOps automation, CI/CD transformation, observability, disaster recovery, and security/compliance. Build and mentor an infrastructure team and partner with Product and Data to enable scalable, highly available services.

Lead Cloud Platform to build scalable, secure, and cost-efficient AWS infrastructure (EKS-focused), align stakeholders, automate shard buildout, reduce incidents via hardened ingress and Terraform guardrails, manage distributed senior teams and AWS spend, and deliver a cloud roadmap tied to AI and enterprise goals.

Lead strategy and delivery for enterprise software engineering and systems integration. Set architecture and engineering standards, manage multi-team portfolios, drive CI/CD, observability, security and operational excellence, oversee budgets and vendors, and develop senior technical management to deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.

The Director of Systems Engineering will lead and mentor teams in developing cardiac health monitoring technologies, ensuring compliance and effective product lifecycles.