Director, Enterprise Resilience & Reliability Engineering

Socket.dev; Johnston (RI); On-site; USD 213,000 - 308,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev seeks a Director of Enterprise Stability & Resilience Engineering to lead engineering capabilities that deliver resilient, reliable customer journeys across the enterprise. The role emphasizes embedding resilience, observability, recoverability, and security into the software lifecycle and enterprise architecture.

As a senior software engineering executive, you will translate business objectives into engineering capabilities, align with business processes, and drive proactive risk

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering, solution engineering, architecture, and technology delivery.
• 10+ years leading software engineering organizations and large-scale technology initiatives.
• Experience guiding complete engineering lifecycles: discovery, solution engineering, architecture, delivery, production readiness, and continuous improvement.
• Strong expertise in application architecture, distributed systems, APIs, integration patterns, event-driven architectures, and enterprise platforms.
• Ability to translate business objectives into engineering solutions and to design resilient, scalable, secure, and high-performing systems.
• Exceptional executive communication and stakeholders management skills.
• Systems thinking and ability to connect business outcomes to technology capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams responsible for Enterprise Stability and Resilience Engineering.
• Establish engineering standards, frameworks, patterns, and reusable capabilities.
• Drive software engineering excellence across discovery, solution engineering, architecture, execution, and delivery.
• Build engineering products, services, and automation to improve resilience.
• Map end-to-end customer journeys and dependencies across channels, apps, APIs, middleware, data platforms, and third-party ecosystems.
• Identify architectural, operational, and engineering risks that could impact customer outcomes.
• Translate business objectives into engineering capabilities that improve reliability, recoverability, security, scalability, and performance.
• Design and implement enterprise resilience capabilities across critical journeys.
• Define engineering controls and integration patterns that improve availability and fault tolerance.
• Partner with application, platform, architecture, security, and business teams to embed resilience-by-design.
• Drive proactive risk identification and engineering solutions before customer-impacting issues occur.
• Establish enterprise-wide reliability engineering practices and performance strategies.
• Drive benchmarking, capacity planning, and scalability assessments.
• Integrate security engineering into development and delivery processes.
• Ensure resilience, reliability, security, and performance across the lifecycle.
• Build automated engineering guardrails, controls, and stage gates.
• Develop policy-driven governance and maturity models.
• Create measurement frameworks, scorecards, and self-service capabilities.
• Enable automated compliance monitoring.
• Influence senior leaders on resilience strategies and investments.
• Drive multi-year roadmaps for stability, resilience, and modernization.
• Foster a culture of accountability, customer obsession, and continuous improvement.

Skills

15+ years software engineering

10+ years leading software engineering

Discovery

Solution Engineering

Architecture

Delivery

Production Readiness

Continuous Improvement

Application architecture

Distributed systems

APIs

Integration patterns

Event-driven architectures

Enterprise platforms

Business alignment

Resilience engineering

Security engineering

Performance engineering

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Systems thinking

Job description

Socket.dev seeks a Director of Enterprise Stability & Resilience Engineering to lead engineering capabilities that deliver resilient, reliable customer journeys across the enterprise. The role emphasizes embedding resilience, observability, recoverability, and security into the software lifecycle and enterprise architecture.

As a senior software engineering executive, you will translate business objectives into engineering capabilities, align with business processes, and drive proactive risk