Top Director of Engineering Jobs in Boston, MA

Leads the vision, roadmap, and development of an AI-enabled Service Catalog platform. Combines product leadership with hands-on full-stack engineering across web applications, APIs, integrations, workflows, and AI features. Manages engineering and product strategy, defines success metrics, partners with architects and stakeholders, prototypes capabilities, and ensures scalable, secure, responsible solutions with human oversight.

Leads the technical vision, architecture, development, and delivery of FOS software products. Manages and scales engineering teams, drives modernization from legacy to modern technology stacks, oversees cloud, microservices, APIs, CI/CD, quality, security, and reliability practices, and collaborates with product and business stakeholders. The role also supports talent recruitment and development, compliance with SOC 2 requirements, disaster recovery planning, and continuous engineering improvement.

Lead and scale Inspiren's embedded firmware organization: define technical roadmap, architectures, standards, and AI-augmented workflows; oversee multi-modal sensing firmware (mmWave, optical, audio), multi-protocol communications, SoC strategy, OTA and secure/HIPAA-compliant systems; manage JDM partnerships and cross-functional alignment across R&D, NPI, and sustaining engineering.

Lead and scale core cloud and bare-metal infrastructure including SRE, global and HPC networking, and distributed storage. Define SLOs/SLAs, incident response, observability, and IaC. Architect InfiniBand/RoCE networks and high-performance storage to support large GPU workloads. Hire and mentor managers and senior ICs, partner with product and program teams to forecast capacity and drive reliability, throughput, and low-latency infrastructure at scale.

Lead the 0-to-1 architecture, development, testing, and launch of Riverside Insights’ Reach platform and next-generation CogAT assessment. Build and manage a 6–10 engineer team, make build-versus-buy decisions, oversee AWS infrastructure and regulated-data compliance, lead customer migration, and translate product roadmaps into technical execution. The role is hands-on, requiring active coding, full-stack fluency, AI-native development, cross-functional partnership, and senior leadership communication.

Owns Azure cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, GitOps, secrets management, databases, data warehouses, observability, and reliability. Leads AI-assisted infrastructure engineering standards and practices, manages and mentors engineers and engineering managers, contributes hands-on to architecture, coding, incident response, and platform improvements, and partners with Security and Corporate IT.

Lead technical delivery for large-diameter water, wastewater, and stormwater conveyance projects. Manage teams, develop and review design and construction plans, prepare engineering reports, perform field inspections, provide technical guidance, support proposals and strategy, and engage clients and stakeholders to deliver resilient pipeline infrastructure across the Northeast.

Leads LightForce’s manufacturing engineering function, including process and equipment development, automation, continuous improvement, NPI, industrialization, and process validation. Owns the manufacturing technology roadmap to improve yield, throughput, reliability, quality, and cost. Builds and manages engineering teams, directs CAPEX and external resources, partners cross-functionally on design transfer, and ensures compliance with OSHA, ISO, safety, quality, and regulatory requirements.

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.

Leads UBC’s Platform Development team, overseeing software architecture, application delivery, platform modernization, and engineering standards. Manages architects, development managers, and software engineers while guiding SDLC practices, Agile delivery, CI/CD, testing, deployment, documentation, security, and operational support. Defines enterprise platform roadmaps involving APIs, workflow orchestration, integrations, event-driven architecture, data systems, and AI-enabled automation. Partners with Information Security and Enterprise Architecture to deliver scalable, secure solutions in an FDA-regulated environment.

Lead strategic build-versus-buy engineering initiatives within Elastic’s IT organization. Design and deliver internal platforms using Elasticsearch, Kibana, Elastic ML, AI, and cloud technologies across developer productivity, FinOps, IT service management, and enterprise efficiency. Establish architecture and engineering standards, partner cross-functionally with IT, Security, Platform Engineering, Finance, and other teams, and validate Elastic products through internal production systems.

Lead multiple software teams to define technical vision, deliver AI-embedded, secure, scalable products, champion Agile/DevOps practices, mentor engineering leaders, set KPIs, and align product engineering roadmap with executive strategy.

Leads multiple engineering teams responsible for platform, infrastructure, identity, observability, reliability, and foundational architecture. Sets technical strategy, roadmap, standards, and architectural direction while ensuring predictable delivery, security, quality, scalability, and operational excellence. Partners with Product, Security, CloudOps, and other leaders; develops engineering directors, managers, and senior technical staff; and drives talent strategy, modernization, developer productivity, and executive communication.

The Engineering Director will oversee multi-discipline engineering for a steam turbine power plant, managing teams and ensuring successful project execution from design to implementation.

Lead Boulevard’s infrastructure transformation by defining cloud, DevOps, security, and reliability strategy. Manage and grow infrastructure and reliability engineering teams while architecting scalable AWS platforms, EKS containerization, Terraform and GitOps automation, CI/CD pipelines, observability, disaster recovery, database scaling, and compliance practices. Partner with Product, Services, Data Engineering, and Platform teams to provide secure, highly available, self-service infrastructure that supports business growth.

Leads the creation of Stellarus’s performance engineering and test automation function. Owns automated performance, load, stress, scalability, reliability, regression, and end-to-end testing systems, CI/CD quality gates, performance standards, synthetic workloads, observability-driven analysis, dashboards, and release readiness criteria. Partners with developers and platform engineering across cloud-native services, Kubernetes, APIs, databases, and event-driven systems. Mentors technical teams, leads readiness reviews, and builds a high-leverage team while remaining hands-on with tooling and strategy.

Leads and grows the engineering organization, sets technical strategy and roadmap, oversees execution across multiple teams, and provides technical direction on architecture, scalability, reliability, security, and quality. Partners with Product, Design, Operations, Risk, and the CTO to deliver customer-focused financial products. Responsibilities include recruiting and developing engineering leaders, improving processes, removing organizational bottlenecks, and balancing product delivery with long-term platform and infrastructure investments.

Lead engineering execution and organizational capability for a cloud-based PMS. Drive predictable delivery, platform reliability, modernization, AI-enabled developer productivity, standardized practices, and cross-business platform strategy while growing and developing engineering teams.

Lead and transform the QA function for an AI-accelerated software organization. Define technical quality strategy, CI/CD gates, test-data approaches for PHI, and automation across unit, integration, and end-to-end testing. Build and grow a high-performing quality engineering team, set release standards and exit criteria, integrate AI/LLM evaluation with MLEs, and provide auditable metrics for leadership and regulators.

Lead and grow a 8-10 person engineering organization building cloud-native portfolio construction platforms. Drive technical strategy, deliver scalable resilient solutions, partner with product and architecture, and champion adoption of AI-assisted development tools to accelerate developer productivity and engineering quality.

Lead and grow engineering teams, drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, ensure high-quality delivery of cybersecurity platform features, and foster collaboration across departments.

Leads a 35-person mechanical engineering discipline, overseeing engineering operations, programs, project delivery, staff development, client relationships, business development, financial performance, and commercial growth. Manages 6–7 direct reports, supports proposals and contracts, guides program managers, ensures project quality and timelines, and drives continuous improvement. The role requires extensive A/E/C experience, a Professional Engineer license, commercial multi-site program expertise, and strong leadership and client-facing skills.

Lead the Data Products engineering pillar owning technical strategy, clinical data ingestion, canonical modeling, and scalability. Manage ingestion pipelines, customer onboarding, data hygiene, observability, and enterprise reporting. Drive AI-augmented SDLC adoption, ensure regulatory compliance (HIPAA, SOC 2), hire and mentor engineering leaders, and partner with product and data science to deliver a stable, scalable clinical data platform that supports multi-customer growth and clinical insight generation.

Leads the Engineering organization across two remote teams, directly managing, coaching, and developing engineers. Partners with Product to drive timely, high-quality delivery; staffs initiatives, develops technical leads, resolves cross-team risks, supports hiring, and contributes to architecture, technical debt, and scaling decisions. The role oversees execution, engineering process, quality, and team engagement while guiding a high-scale SaaS platform built with TypeScript, Python, Django, React, AWS, Postgres, and Redis.

You will lead engineering teams, develop managers, hire staff, drive quality, and ensure disciplined processes while representing products to stakeholders.