Director of Engineering

Kinder Morgan; Bellingham (WA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 258,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health premiums

Certifications funded

Mentor guidance

Job summary

Kinder Morgan is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead backend development and guide a team through complex on-call scenarios from its Bellingham base. The role focuses on delivering reliable Rust services, debugging root causes, and steering technology roadmaps.

With 10 years in technology, you will mentor peers, manage production reliability, and participate in sprint planning. The contract role offers a generous salary, health premiums, and certification funding to support growth.

Qualifications

• 10 years in technology as a baseline
• Proven ability to design and deliver backend services
• Experience mentoring senior engineers or director-level staff

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Rust
• Read stack traces, trace bugs to root cause
• Mentor the director cohort through on-call rotations
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for production environments
• Drive incident postmortems to prevent outages
• Contribute to sprint planning, estimation, and tech roadmap discussions

Skills

Rust

Git

C# fundamentals

Team collaboration

Tools

GitHub Actions

Git

Job description

We're after a Director of Engineering whose idea of a good day is an impact-driven pull request that closed three tickets and opened zero. If you have 10 years in technology, this contract job offers $184,000 - $258,000 plus the room to lead and grow.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Flexibility and Rust
• Read the Flexibility stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root
• Mentor the director cohort through their first real Adaptability on-call at Kinder Morgan
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for entrepreneurial production environments
• Drive the Scrum incident postmortem that stops the Bellingham outage from recurring
• Contribute to sprint planning, estimation, and technology roadmap discussions

What You'll Bring

• A collaborative mindset and genuine enthusiasm for teamwork
• Practical command of Rust, with bonus points for Git
• Critical thinking skills and sound, independent judgment
• C# fundamentals plus the Flexibility polish clients notice

Kinder Morgan sits at the intersection of GitHub Actions and Git, quietly powering technology workflows from its Bellingham base. You won't find performance theater here; we care what you shipped, not how busy you looked.

On top of $184,000 - $258,000, we cover your health premiums, fund your certifications, and pair you with a seasoned mentor.

No cobwebs here: this technology listing was confirmed open this morning.

Your Git story isn't finished, and the next chapter might be a Director of Engineering role here.