Director of Engineering, Platform Engineering

Everlaw; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 245,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as the Director of Engineering for Platform Engineering, where you'll lead the development of scalable and secure solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance processes and empower engineers to excel in their roles. This position offers a vibrant culture that values integrity and growth, providing you with the opportunity to make a significant impact in a mission-driven environment. If you're passionate about technology and leadership, this role is an exciting chance to shape the future of a rapidly growing company dedicated to promoting justice through innovative software solutions.

Benefits

Equity program

401(k) with company matching

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Paid parental leave

17 paid vacation days

Mental health support

Learning and development stipend

Company-sponsored life insurance

Volunteer time off

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering and team leadership.
• Strong foundational understanding of computer science topics.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor engineering teams to deliver on projects.
• Strategize and execute against the Engineering roadmap.

Skills

Software Design

System Design

Stakeholder Communication

Team Leadership

Problem Solving

Education

BS/MS or PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

In your role as ‘Director of Engineering, Platform Engineering’ you will guide the scalable, reliable and secure building of Everlaw’s platform. You will work closely with our Product, Design, DevOps, Security Engineering and Product engineering leads to synthesize requirements and prioritize efforts. You will lead roadmapping, resourcing and execution for critical platform areas that make it better and cheaper to develop, test and release software. You will work closely with our Engineering Operations team to improve processes to help with goal setting, empowerment and execution across Everlaw Engineering efforts.

Engineering is the backbone of the Everlaw Platform. We build features and functionality into the product and ensure its smooth functioning. We also provide data and insights to the rest of Everlaw. At our core, we like to build and enjoy the creative process of building software that is smart, that works well, that scales well, and that is reliable and secure. We do this by supporting and empowering our team members to do their best work, by tackling challenging and complex engineering problems and by nurturing and supporting each team member through mentoring, coaching, and comprehensive feedback.

Everlaw’s mission is to promote justice by illuminating truth. Our company culture is open and vibrant and we’re committed to the professional growth of our team members, offering an annual learning and development stipend and regular check-ins with managers regarding career goals. If you’re looking for a place that values passion, integrity, thinking big, and a desire to learn, we’d love to hear from you! Think you’re missing some of the skills and are hesitant to apply? We do not believe in the ‘perfect’ candidate and encourage you to apply if you feel you can bring value to our team.

This is a full-time position based in our Oakland, California office with a hybrid work schedule: in office M/W/Th with the option to work from home Tu/Fr.

Getting started

• We want you to feel like part of the team early on! Our onboarding process will integrate you into the company with informative sessions on our product, policies, processes, and team structure and goals. You’ll spend meaningful time getting to know your direct reports and discover what excites and challenges them.
• We’re excited for you to learn, grow, and contribute right away! We trust that you’ll bring experience and knowledge that will uplift and uplevel the team, but we don’t expect you to know everything on Day 1.

In your role, you'll...

• Critically observe and understand Everlaw’s platform, tooling and processes.
• Understand current and upcoming challenges and requirements from the viewpoint of multiple stakeholders.
• Understand company goals and Engineering roadmaps.
• Strategize, prioritize, resource and execute against our Engineering roadmap.
• Actively coach your reports (both senior engineers and managers) to deliver on projects and ensure they get the right types of feedback and coaching they need to succeed in their careers.
• Work with Engineering Operations, cross-functional teams, team members and managers to improve various processes that affect infrastructure growth, support, alignment, collaboration and accountability.

About you

• You have a BS/MS or PhD in Computer Science (or equivalent).
• You have a sound foundational understanding of a wide range of computer science topics and concerns relating to system and software design.
• You have at least 5 years of experience as a senior engineer building one or more of - developer productivity tools, highly available platform services (i.e. storage systems, pub-sub systems, search systems, caching solutions, observability solutions) and/or have expertise and experience with infrastructure and/or cloud technologies (like Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker etc).
• You have a good dynamic range that you apply to different situations - you can step back and empower, while also diving deep into the code to understand the details.
• You can communicate at the right altitude with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You have experience working with stakeholder teams (internal and/or external) in setting and collaborating on technical roadmaps.
• You have experience communicating with customers articulating to them how the platform works on reliability, security and compliance matters.
• You have at least 3 years of experience managing and leading senior engineers. You have experience managing the technical workstreams of software engineers and supporting them in execution.
• You have at least 1 year of experience managing and leading managers - coaching and mentoring them on talent management, strategic planning and execution. You have experience managing platform engineering teams.
• You have demonstrated the ability to lead an inspired, high performing and highly motivated and accountable team.
• You are authorized to work in the United States. Please note that at this time, Everlaw is not sponsoring F-1 visas, including OPT, for this role.

Benefits

• The expected salary range for this role is between $245,000.00 - $310,000.00. The final offered salary will be dependent upon many factors including the candidate’s experience and skills. The base pay range is subject to change in the future.
• Equity program
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
• Health, dental, and vision
• Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expenses
• Paid parental leave and approximately 10 days (80 hours) per year of sick leave
• Seventeen paid vacation days plus 11 federal holidays
• Membership to Modern Health to help employees prioritize mental health and wellness
• Annual allocation for Learning & Development opportunities and applicable professional membership dues
• Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
• Find out more about our Benefits and Perks

Perks

• Work in Downtown Oakland, just steps from the BART line and dozens of restaurants
• You will get a powerful Linux laptop and be able to customize your desk setup
• Bond over team lunches and out-of-the-box events
• Ranked “#1 on G2 for Ediscovery Software and Momentum” and we offer free eDiscovery resources to benefit the greater societal good with Everlaw for Good
• Time off for company-sponsored volunteer events and 4 paid hours per quarter to volunteer at a charitable organization of your choice
• Take advantage of learning and career development opportunities
• Ranked #9 on Glassdoor's Best Places to Work 2023 for US small and medium companies
• One of Wealthfront’s 2021 Career Launching Companies, and ranked #2 on the “2022 Bay Area Best Places to Work” list by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley Business Journal
• One of Fast Company’s World's Most Innovative Companies for 2022 and proud contributor of free ediscovery resources to benefit the greater good through “Everlaw for Good”
• #LI-EJ1
• #LI-Hybrid

Pursue Truth While Finding Yours At Everlaw, we are deeply invested in pursuing the truth, for our clients and for our employees. We know that when you’re empowered to pursue your passions, it is reflected in the work.

That’s why we’re committed to the professional growth of all our team members, offering an annual learning and development stipend and regular career check-ins with managers. If you’re looking for a place that values passion, integrity, and a desire to learn, we’d love to hear from you!

About Everlaw We help law firms, government agencies, and corporations sift through millions of documents of evidence in big lawsuits and investigations to find the proverbial smoking gun (or needle in the haystack -- pick your metaphor). It's a multi-billion dollar space typically dominated by service-oriented vendors, and we're coming at it with cutting-edge technology and elegant design. It's working, and we've been growing very rapidly: we host hundreds of terabytes of data and work with all 50 state Attorneys General and hundreds of law firms on some of the most high-profile cases litigated today.

Everlaw is an equal opportunity employer. We pride ourselves on having a diverse workforce and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law. We respect the gender, gender identity and gender expression of our applicants and employees, and we honor requests for pronouns. It is our policy to comply with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity, including the California Equal Pay Act. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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