How you'll help us achieve it

You'll support Wave's Platform org, which is responsible for building shared infrastructure and tooling to support Wave's growth. The Platform org is one of Wave's fastest-growing engineering groups because of the growth of our user base across multiple countries and products. Platform's priorities include:

• Leading efforts to scale Wave's backend via various data sharing approaches.
• Allowing us to launch in countries with data sovereignty laws by building and operating on-prem instances of Wave in those countries.
• Reliably operating shared infrastructure such as our large and growing fleet of databases.
• Implementing monitoring and observability tooling for that shared infrastructure.
• Building shared tooling for deployment, testing, etc., to enable product engineering teams to iterate quickly.

As Director of Engineering for the Platform org, you will:

• Set the quality bar for tech execution and empower your teams to hit it.
• Recruit exceptional engineers and managers.
• Mentor and coach team leads to become more effective.
• Strengthen Wave’s engineering culture and processes.
• Help spin up new teams as our product surface area grows.

Key details

• You can work remotely from anywhere (between UTC -5 and +4) with reliable Internet access.
• Our salaries are competitive and are calculated using a transparent formula. For this role, depending on your level of experience and location, we offer a salary range of 191,600-239,500 USD (or local equivalent), plus equity worth 4-5x your annual salary.
• Major benefits:
  • Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country)
  • 6 months of fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
  • Unlimited vacation with a 20-day minimum requirement
  • $10,000 annual charitable donation matching

Requirements

• You value working on software whose mission you can believe in.
• You care a lot about doing the right thing, both for users and for colleagues.
• You have previous experience managing managers.
• You have previous experience working on infrastructure and reliability, it’s a bonus if you have experience working with data centers.
• You have a strong track record of recruiting highly effective engineers and managers.
• You have exceptional judgment: you hone in on the most important considerations and think rigorously about the trade-offs between them.
• You have previous experience coping with a rapidly-growing team, company and user base.

You might be a good fit if you

• Are very organized and detail-oriented - you like to roll up your sleeves and get into the nitty-gritty. You’re the type that always looks at rounding errors.
• Are driven to face tasks head-on, complete them efficiently, and move on to the next ones.
• Are eager to think outside of the box when faced with potential roadblocks.
• You’re eager to leverage both internal and external data to inform your decision-making.
• You believe in iteration, and work to improve processes.
• Are tech-savvy and feel comfortable troubleshooting tech issues.
• Have previously worked for a remote company and enjoy working independently and within a team