Director of Engineering

All roles at JumpCloud are Remote unless otherwise specified in the Job Description.

About JumpCloud

JumpCloud® helps IT teams and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) Make Work Happen® by centralizing management of user identities and devices enabling small and medium-sized enterprises to adopt Zero Trust security models. JumpCloud has been used by more than 200000 organizations including GoFundMe Grab ClassPass Beyond Finance and Foursquare. JumpCloud has raised over $400M from world-class investors including Sapphire Ventures General Atlantic Sands Capital Atlassian and CrowdStrike. Our teams are growing fast too and we're looking for talent across engineering sales customer success marketing product management and more. Join our team of dedicated passionate and creative people who are eager to change the IT industry forever.

About the Role

As we grow the JumpCloud Engineering team we are hiring a Sr. Software Engineering Director to build and lead new teams in our Software-as-a-Service group. You’ll have the opportunity to play a key role in the success and development of our engineering teams and managers in addition to growing your own career. We are seeking a senior engineering leader who is passionate about building great products high performing teams and the next generation of engineering leaders.

You will be responsible for guiding the engineering teams managers and architects reporting to you. You will have influence over our engineering practices in addition to product strategy and execution. You’ll help your teams build out features help drive architecture define best practices and enable product quality in an environment of continuous improvement. We’re operating at startup scale and speed and as a senior engineering leader you will help guide the way.

To succeed in this role you should have experience leading organizations that deliver and support complex distributed systems in a production public cloud with an established track record in developing high performing geo-distributed customer-facing software proven technical ability multi-team project management skills excellent people development and management skills and great communication skills with a strong motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.

What you’ll be doing:

• Engineering leadership for 1-2 architects 2-5 engineering managers that combined lead a total of 4-8 agile teams. Each team is composed of Front end engineers Backend engineers and Quality engineers. Total organization size roughly 25-45.

• Responsible for inspiring hiring on-boarding and mentoring a diverse remote team of high potential team members.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to distill complex issues their business impact and our options for senior leadership and the executive team.

• As an active member of the engineering leadership team you will partner with your peers and other teams to build lead and inspire a world class engineering organization.

• Grow and mentor the next generation of architects engineering managers and senior managers.

• Drive reuse of development work platforming and consistent technical and architectural direction across projects.

• Tactically provide project leadership and oversight of team activities in your areas of expertise.

• Strategically help define the future of your organization identify industry trends and practices that when adopted will dramatically accelerate team performance and increase organizational capability.

What we are looking for:

• 10+ years experience leading engineering managers and architects that develop SaaS products running in a public cloud like AWS GCP or Azure.

• 10+ years experience as a software engineer in any industry and in any tech stack.

• Hands-on experience working with Agile teams including Scrum.

• Experience managing cross functional teams including Dev and Quality engineers.

• Proven ability to lead in a fast-moving team-oriented collaborative environment

• Experience partnering with Product Management Security Operations and User Experience leaders to build the best customer experience.

• Track record of continuous improvement through innovation delivery process development quality etc.

• Experience leading and growing geographically diverse engineering teams in today’s remote first work environment.

• BS degree in Software Engineering Computer Science or equivalent. Strong technical foundation in software engineering and design principles.

Bonus points if you have:

• Background in Identity and Access Management (IAM).

• Experience with authentication and authorization protocols such as OAuth OpenID Connect RADIUS SAML or WebAuthN.

• Experience with other Directory services such as LDAP Active Directory Google Workspace or protocols such as SCIM etc.

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Where you’ll be working/Location:

JumpCloud is committed to being Remote First meaning that you are able to work remotely within the country noted in the Job Description.

You must be located in and authorized to work in the country noted in the job description to be considered for this role.

Please note: There is an expectation that our engineers participate in on-call shifts. You will be expected commit to being ready and able to respond during your assigned shift so that alerts don't go unaddressed.

Language:

JumpCloud has teams in 15+ countries around the world and conducts our internal business in English. The interview and any additional screening process will take place primarily in English. To be considered for a role at JumpCloud you will be required to speak and write in English fluently.  Any additional language requirements will be included in the details of the job description.

Why JumpCloud?

If you thrive working in a fast SaaS-based environment and you are passionate about solving challenging technical problems we look forward to hearing from you! JumpCloud is an incredible place to share and grow your expertise! You’ll work with amazing talent across each department who are passionate about our mission. We’re out of the box thinkers so your unique ideas and approaches for conceiving a product and/or feature will be welcome. You’ll have a voice in the organization as you work with a seasoned executive team a supportive board and in a proven market that our customers are excited about.

One of JumpCloud's three core values is to “Build Connections.” To us that means creating ' human connection with each other regardless of our backgrounds orientations geographies religions languages gender race etc. We care deeply about the people that we work with and want to see everyone succeed.' - Rajat Bhargava CEO

Please submit your résumé and brief explanation about yourself and why you would be a good fit for JumpCloud.  Please note JumpCloud is not accepting third party resumes at this time.

JumpCloud is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin veteran or disability status.

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