Sr Director - Engineering

Neara; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive incentives

Innovative workspace

Rapid career advancement

Job summary

Neara in Bengaluru is seeking a Sr Director of Engineering to lead and scale its software engineering organization. This senior role involves overseeing application development, platform engineering, and cybersecurity, ensuring high-quality delivery and reliability.

The ideal candidate has over 12 years of experience in software engineering, particularly in leadership roles. This position offers competitive incentives and a challenging yet rewarding environment in a growing startup.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering with leadership experience.
• Proven track record of scaling engineering organizations.
• Experience across multiple technical domains like software development.

Responsibilities

• Own engineering leadership across software development and cybersecurity.
• Drive execution excellence across multiple software programs.
• Partner with product and hardware teams to align engineering capacity.

Skills

Software engineering leadership

Team structuring

Stakeholder communication

Experience with AI-assisted tools

Job description

Sr Director - Engineering

Job type: Full Time · Department: Engineering · Work type: On‑Site

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Digantara is a leading Space Surveillance and Intelligence company focused on ensuring orbital safety and sustainability. With expertise in space‑based detection, tracking, identification, and monitoring, Digantara provides comprehensive domain awareness across all regimes, enabling end‑users to gain actionable intelligence on a single platform. At the core of its infrastructure lies a sophisticated integration of hardware and software capabilities aligned with the key principles of situational awareness: perception (data collection), comprehension (data processing), and prediction (analytics). This holistic approach empowers Digantara to monitor all Resident Space Objects (RSOs) in orbit, fostering comprehensive domain awareness.

Why Us?

• Be part of a collaborative and innovative environment where your ideas and skills make a real difference to the entire space realm.
• Push the boundaries with hands‑on experience, greater responsibilities, and rapid career advancement.
• Competitive incentives, galvanising workspace, blazing team—pretty much everything you have heard about a startup.

About the Role

We're hiring an Sr Director of Engineering to lead and scale our software engineering organization at a pivotal moment in Digantara's growth. This is a senior leadership role with broad ownership across application development, platform engineering, and cybersecurity and a mandate to build an engineering org that can deliver at pace without sacrificing quality or reliability.

This role reports to the founders and will be central to how we scale our engineering capacity, strengthen our execution engine, and bring AI‑driven productivity into everyday engineering workflows.

What You'll Do

Organizational Leadership

• Own engineering leadership across software development, platform engineering, and cybersecurity setting direction, standards, and team structures
• Design and build engineering org structures aligned to Digantara's product roadmap and business goals
• Hire, mentor, and develop senior engineering leaders; build a strong leadership bench for the next phase of growth

Execution & Delivery

• Drive execution excellence across multiple concurrent software programs improving throughput, predictability, and delivery bandwidth
• Establish engineering processes and rhythms that balance speed with rigor, especially given the high‑stakes, mission‑critical nature of our systems
• Own engineering KPIs: quality, velocity, reliability, and team health

Strategic & Cross‑functional

• Partner with product, science, and hardware teams to align engineering capacity with company priorities
• Lead the adoption of AI‑powered developer tools and workflows to improve engineering leverage
• Represent engineering in leadership conversations on org design, hiring strategy, and capability gaps

What We're Looking For

Must‑haves

• 12+ years in software engineering with at least 4 - 5 years in multi‑team engineering leadership roles
• Proven track record of scaling engineering organizations – structuring teams, improving delivery, and growing leaders
• Experience leading across multiple technical domains: software development, platform/infrastructure, and security
• Strong organizational design instincts – you've built teams for scale, not just headcount
• Hands‑on familiarity with AI‑assisted engineering tools and a demonstrated ability to drive adoption across teams
• Excellent stakeholder communication – you can translate engineering complexity for business audiences and vice versa

Nice‑to‑haves

• Experience in deep‑tech, defense, aerospace, or other mission‑critical software environments
• Exposure to space systems, real‑time data platforms, or hardware‑software integration
• Familiarity with government and defense customer environments

Why This Role Matters

Digantara's engineering team is the backbone of systems that governments and defense organizations rely on for real‑time space intelligence. As we expand globally and take on increasingly complex missions, the quality of our engineering org directly determines what we can deliver and how fast.

This role isn't about managing for the sake of managing. It's about building an engineering organization that is lean, high‑trust, and capable of doing hard things reliably. The opportunity to shape that from the inside at a company operating at the frontier of space technology is rare.

Job Location: Hebbal, Bengaluru