Director, Data Platform & AI Infrastructure

Intuit; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 308,000 - 417,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit in Mountain View is seeking a Director of Software Engineering for Data Platform Infrastructure to own data infrastructure including event bus, streaming, Kafka, and cataloguing systems powering QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Intuit Enterprise Suite.

You will lead a high-caliber engineering organization, drive AI-native platform evolution, and ensure reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across the data stack.

Qualifications

• 18+ years of software engineering experience.
• 7+ years leading a high performing engineering team.
• Deep fluency in streaming architectures, Kafka, event bus design, storage databases, and data catalogue systems at scale.
• Operator mindset: comfortable with incidents, uptime, and day-to-day execution while setting long-term direction.
• Track record of leading transformation in infrastructure organizations with operational excellence.
• Strong people leadership: building teams and benches and raising executive presence.
• Executive presence to represent data infrastructure strategy to VP/CTO-level stakeholders.
• Background from a large-scale, infrastructure-intensive technology environment.

Responsibilities

• Full ownership of the data infrastructure stack: event bus, streaming, Kafka, storage databases, and multi-catalogue systems serving product teams.
• Drive transformation across the organization — establishing operational excellence, incident management discipline, and process rigor as the team scales.
• Evolve the infrastructure roadmap to support Intuit's AI transformation, ensuring the platform can scale with AI-native workloads.
• Build a world-class team — strengthening bench strength and succession depth at every level of leadership.
• Manage and develop a team that includes strong existing talent, while continuing to raise the bar on capability across the broader org.
• Partner cross-functionally with product and platform leaders across QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Intuit Enterprise Suite to align infrastructure priorities with product roadmaps.

Skills

Streaming architectures

Kafka

Data catalogues

Incident management

Executive leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Scalability planning

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's Degree preferred

Job description

Intuit in Mountain View is seeking a Director of Software Engineering for Data Platform Infrastructure to own data infrastructure including event bus, streaming, Kafka, and cataloguing systems powering QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Intuit Enterprise Suite.

You will lead a high-caliber engineering organization, drive AI-native platform evolution, and ensure reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across the data stack.