Director of Engineering: Infra & Platform Strategy (Remote)

Shutterstock, Inc.; Dublin; Remote; EUR 140.000 - 160.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Shutterstock, Inc. is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead infrastructure strategy and cost management across GIPHY. You will partner with SRE/Data, Content, and Search/AI leaders to scale, secure, and optimize technology and vendor relationships.

You will oversee reliability, capacity planning, and strategic technology vendors, while guiding engineering managers and cross-functional teams toward common goals and prudent build/buy decisions.

Qualifikationen

• 10+ years engineering experience.
• 5+ years of leadership and people-management experience.
• Leadership in infrastructure, platform, distributed systems, search, AI, or large-scale tech.
• Strong cloud infrastructure, reliability, observability, capacity planning, cost optimization.
• Experience managing strategic technology vendors and contracts.
• Strong executive and cross-functional communication skills.
• Ability to evaluate unfamiliar technologies and make pragmatic build/buy/adopt/defer decisions.
• Collaborative, low-ego leadership style with strong judgment and accountability.

Aufgaben

• Own infrastructure and technical strategy across GIPHY with focus on scalability, reliability, cost.
• Monitor spend, utilization, capacity, and commitments; optimize cost and performance.
• Manage vendor relationships including AWS and other providers.
• Support contract negotiation, renewals, spend requests, and vendor evaluations.
• Partner with SRE/engineering leadership on reliability, incident response, and security risk.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and vendors via prototypes and due diligence.
• Collaborate with Product, BD, and external partners on scale and tech requirements.
• Represent Engineering in strategic partner and vendor conversations.
• Oversee external IT support model and related vendor relationships.
• Build alignment across teams; communicate tradeoffs and avoid unilateral decisions.

Kenntnisse

Engineering leadership

Strategic vision

Cloud infrastructure

Vendor management

Executive communication

Build/buy decisions

Cost optimization

Collaborative leadership

Tools

AWS

Jobbeschreibung

Shutterstock, Inc. is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead infrastructure strategy and cost management across GIPHY. You will partner with SRE/Data, Content, and Search/AI leaders to scale, secure, and optimize technology and vendor relationships.

You will oversee reliability, capacity planning, and strategic technology vendors, while guiding engineering managers and cross-functional teams toward common goals and prudent build/buy decisions.