Director of DevOps & Cloud Engineering

Butterfly Network, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental/vision coverage

Life insurance

Disability coverage

HSA

401(k) match

Stock purchase plan

Recognition program

Flexible PTO

Birthday PTO

Hybrid work model

Office collaboration spaces

Parental leave

Job summary

Butterfly Network, Inc. seeks an experienced Director to build and lead Quality Engineering and DevOps. You will own end-to-end QA and platform engineering, shaping test automation, CI/CD, and release processes while ensuring HIPAA, FDA, and SOC 2 compliance.

You will manage a distributed team across onshore and offshore locations, partnering with product engineering, regulatory, IT, and security to ship fast without compromising quality.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering, QA, DevOps, or platform engineering.
• 3–5 years in engineering management or senior technical leadership.
• Proven experience leading QA and DevOps or platform functions, with distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and inspire QA and DevOps engineers across onshore and offshore teams; foster ownership and continuous improvement.
• Define and execute a comprehensive QA strategy, automated testing frameworks, test coverage standards, and regression pipelines.
• Own the DevOps/platform roadmap: CI/CD pipelines, IaC, deployment automation, cloud cost optimization, and developer tooling.
• Partner with engineering leadership to establish release management processes enabling high-velocity delivery with regulatory compliance.
• Drive observability and SRE practices: on-call, incident response, runbooks, SLAs/SLOs, and post-mortems.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Strategy & planning

Regulatory compliance

Communication

Distributed team leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

ECS

EKS

Terraform/CDK

Datadog

New Relic

Grafana

OpenSearch

Job description

• We are seeking an experienced engineering leader to build and lead our Quality Engineering and DevOps functions at Butterfly Network
• This is a high-impact role sitting at the intersection of reliability, velocity, and quality — responsible for ensuring our software and infrastructure meet the rigorous standards required of a regulated medical device company
• As Director, you will own both the QA and DevOps disciplines end-to-end: setting the strategy for test automation, CI/CD pipelines, release processes, infrastructure reliability, and developer experience
• You will lead a distributed team spanning onshore and offshore engineers, partnering closely with product engineering, security, and regulatory teams to ship fast without sacrificing quality or compliance
• As part of our team, your core responsibilities will
• Lead, grow, and inspire a high-performing team of QA and DevOps engineers spanning onshore and offshore — building a culture of ownership, craft, and continuous improvement
• Define and execute the strategy for quality engineering across the organization — automated testing frameworks, test coverage standards, regression pipelines, and quality metrics
• Own the DevOps and platform engineering roadmap — CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation, cloud cost optimization, and developer tooling
• Partner with engineering leadership to establish release management processes that support high-velocity delivery while maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements (HIPAA, FDA, SOC 2)
• Drive observability and site reliability engineering (SRE) practices — on-call processes, incident response, runbooks, SLAs/SLOs, and post-mortems. Recruit, retain, and develop top QA and DevOps talent; build a team that other engineers love working with
• Establish clear quality gates across the SDLC — from PR review through production — reducing defect escape rates and improving release confidence
• Champion a security-first mindset, ensuring infrastructure and release processes meet security and compliance standards
• Serve as a cross-functional partner to product engineering, regulatory, IT, and security teams to align on standards and unblock delivery

Benefits

• 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision (flexible buy-up plans with employee contributions)
• Life insurance and disability coverage for you and your family
• HSA for out-of-pocket expenses, plus other pre-tax savings like the Dependent Care Account (DCA)
• Pre-tax or post-tax 401(k) contributions (company match vests immediately)
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Recognition program and other rewards
• Flexible (reasonable) PTO, along with 10 US holidays observed each year
• Birthday PTO
• Hybrid work model for most positions
• Offices designed for collaboration, with comfortable workspaces, stocked kitchens, and opportunities to connect with peers
• Opportunity to build a revolutionary healthcare product and save millions of lives!
• Parental leave and support for employees during pregnancy loss

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; comfortable operating at the director level and presenting to senior leadershipSolid understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), containerization (Docker, ECS, EKS), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CDK, or equivalent)Experience working in regulated environments (HIPAA, SOC 2, FDA, or similar) with an understanding of compliance requirements for software and infrastructure10+ years of experience in software engineering, QA, DevOps, or platform engineering, with at least 3 to 5 years in an engineering management or senior technical leadership roleProven experience leading both QA and DevOps/platform functions — either combined or separately — with a track record of building high-performing teams. Demonstrated success managing distributed teams, including offshore or nearshore engineers across multiple time zonesBachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experienceDeep expertise in CI/CD pipeline design and implementation, release automation, and developer experience toolingStrong background in test strategy and automation — familiarity with frameworks for unit, integration, end-to-end, and performance testingContainerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, ECS, EKS Opensearch or other Lucene-based search engines HIPAA, PHI, and PII complianceKnowledge of security tooling — SAST, DAST, dependency scanning integrated into CI/CDExperience with mobile QA (iOS/Android) in addition to web and API testingExperience with observability tooling (Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, or equivalent)Familiarity with SRE principles and practices — SLOs, error budgets, chaos engineeringExperience in health tech, medical devices, or other regulated industries