Top Director of Software Engineering Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead global engineering teams for S365 and SmartShopper, partner with Product and Architecture to deliver scalable cloud solutions, drive modernization and operational excellence, mentor managers and senior engineers, and establish engineering standards, roadmaps, and metrics to improve delivery, reliability, and performance.

Lead and scale a global SRE team to ensure 4-9's availability, run 24x7 operations and incident command, own release management, capacity planning, performance tuning, and observability. Drive SRE practices, CI/CD, IaC, containerization, pre-production performance/DR constructs, and partner with engineering leadership to improve reliability, uptime, and operational processes.

Lead an engineering domain (Consumer, B2B, or Backend), owning technical direction, delivery, system health, architecture, and team development. Translate business needs to technical plans, manage cross-team dependencies, ensure production readiness and incident response, and hire and mentor engineers to deliver scalable, reliable software.

Lead and scale full-stack engineering teams for Yahoo Mail; define engineering vision and roadmap; drive AI-native development and AI transformation using Generative AI/LLMs and agents; partner with Product, Design, and Data Science to deliver scalable cloud-native mobile and web experiences; hire, mentor, and retain engineering talent while guiding architecture, technical reviews, and platform modernization.