Top Director of Engineering Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Leads the software engineering organization responsible for scalable, reliable applications and systems integrating hardware, embedded software, edge computing, cloud infrastructure, and machine learning. Sets technical strategy, develops engineering leaders, drives product delivery, establishes engineering standards, and ensures operational excellence across national-scale deployments. Partners with Product, Deployment, Data Science, and executive leadership to align roadmaps, resolve risks, and build high-performing distributed teams.

Leads electrical engineering design and delivery for data center projects, covering LV, MV, and HV systems, power distribution, backup power, grounding, controls, white-space infrastructure, and construction support. Establishes design standards, reviews designs and submittals, supports equipment selection and troubleshooting, coordinates stakeholders, and develops a team of electrical engineers. Requires extensive experience with mission-critical or large-scale projects and strong knowledge of electrical codes and power systems.

Leads the multidisciplinary Integrated Sensor engineering organization across hardware, embedded and edge software, cloud platforms, and distributed systems. Sets technical strategy, architecture, engineering standards, and product delivery processes while scaling reliable systems for nationwide field deployment. Responsibilities include recruiting and developing engineering leaders, coordinating hardware and software development, improving testing and operational resilience, resolving field issues, and partnering with Product, Deployment, Data Science, and company leadership.

Leads the strategy, architecture, development, and operations of Temporal’s large-scale, multi-tenant compute platform. Builds and manages a high-ownership engineering team, drives roadmap execution, reliability, incident response, capacity planning, fleet utilization, cost efficiency, and customer alignment. Guides distributed-systems decisions involving workload isolation, security, scheduling, resource management, performance, virtualization, serverless infrastructure, and future accelerated GPU compute.

Lead and scale core cloud and bare-metal infrastructure including SRE, global and HPC networking, and distributed storage. Define SLOs/SLAs, incident response, observability, and IaC. Architect InfiniBand/RoCE networks and high-performance storage to support large GPU workloads. Hire and mentor managers and senior ICs, partner with product and program teams to forecast capacity and drive reliability, throughput, and low-latency infrastructure at scale.

Leads and grows the engineering organization, sets technical strategy and roadmap, oversees execution across multiple teams, and provides technical direction on architecture, scalability, reliability, security, and quality. Partners with Product, Design, Operations, Risk, and the CTO to deliver customer-focused financial products. Responsibilities include recruiting and developing engineering leaders, improving processes, removing organizational bottlenecks, and balancing product delivery with long-term platform and infrastructure investments.

Leads enterprise web and cloud software development across multiple business lines. Sets technology strategy, oversees architecture, delivery, quality, cost, and performance, and partners with executives and cross-functional stakeholders. Manages budgets, vendors, and diverse engineering teams while mentoring staff and developing future leaders. Drives DevOps, innovation, modern UI technologies, cloud initiatives, and adoption of emerging technologies including AI. Translates strategic priorities into actionable plans and ensures effective delivery in a matrixed environment.

Lead and manage the Electrical Design Engineering team for 30+ facilities, deliver HV/MV/LV electrical designs for capital projects and operations, develop standards, lead FEED/FEL, manage external engineering partners, mentor SMEs, and drive reliability, risk assessments, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Lead and transform the QA function for an AI-accelerated software organization. Define technical quality strategy, CI/CD gates, test-data approaches for PHI, and automation across unit, integration, and end-to-end testing. Build and grow a high-performing quality engineering team, set release standards and exit criteria, integrate AI/LLM evaluation with MLEs, and provide auditable metrics for leadership and regulators.

Leads a 35-person mechanical engineering discipline, overseeing engineering operations, programs, project delivery, staff development, client relationships, business development, financial performance, and commercial growth. Manages 6–7 direct reports, supports proposals and contracts, guides program managers, ensures project quality and timelines, and drives continuous improvement. The role requires extensive A/E/C experience, a Professional Engineer license, commercial multi-site program expertise, and strong leadership and client-facing skills.

Leads the Engineering organization across two remote teams, directly managing, coaching, and developing engineers. Partners with Product to drive timely, high-quality delivery; staffs initiatives, develops technical leads, resolves cross-team risks, supports hiring, and contributes to architecture, technical debt, and scaling decisions. The role oversees execution, engineering process, quality, and team engagement while guiding a high-scale SaaS platform built with TypeScript, Python, Django, React, AWS, Postgres, and Redis.

You will lead engineering teams, develop managers, hire staff, drive quality, and ensure disciplined processes while representing products to stakeholders.

Lead the broadband product line and manage a team of engineers while serving as a subject matter expert in broadband.

Lead delivery for the Nebula SaaS platform: run planning, sprint execution, release management, and reliability at scale. Drive cloud platform and architecture modernization, move AI features from prototype to production, hire and develop engineering leaders, and own budget, headcount, and cross-functional partnerships.

Lead delivery for a cloud-based eDiscovery SaaS platform, owning roadmap execution, platform scalability, reliability, AI feature productionization, org design, hiring and development of engineering managers, budget and vendor management, and cross-functional partnership with Product and senior leadership.

Lead a global manufacturing engineering organization to standardize processes, drive lean continuous improvement, deploy automation and Industry 4.0 solutions (cobots, ML), and ensure safety, traceability, and zero-defect customer quality across international sites.

Lead a team of 10 engineers to architect and develop Node.js and Salesforce solutions, improving delivery schedules and performance metrics.

Lead and grow engineering teams for Mews' Front of House products, partnering with Product, Design, and Data to deliver guest recognition, personalization, automation, and connected guest journeys. Set technical direction, improve engineering excellence and operational health, drive cross-tribe collaboration, coach leaders, and translate strategy into measurable business outcomes like increased guest engagement and reduced time-to-serve.

The Principal Software Engineer will architect and oversee the development of distributed systems, mentor engineers, and drive architectural initiatives for large platforms.

Lead platform engineering teams to design, build, operate, and run OCI-native services for IoT and Connected Devices. Own service reliability, architecture, releases, incident response, KPIs, talent development, and cross-functional delivery of scalable, production-grade cloud services.

Lead and scale a ~50-engineer organization for Transitions of Care. Define engineering strategy and architecture, partner with product and stakeholders, coach managers, drive hiring and operational excellence, and support AI-driven, cloud-based platform delivery.

Lead and scale a multi-team engineering organization owning Billing, TMS, WMS, and LMS. Manage five engineering managers and a Principal Engineer, drive billing automation, deliver a standalone TMS/Parcel system, improve network LMS efficiency, and ensure WMS reliability and international scalability. Build cross-functional partnerships with Finance and Parcel, make organizational design decisions, coach managers, and prioritize technical investments to deliver measurable cost and revenue outcomes.

Lead and streamline engineering management to free the CTO for strategy. Oversee engineering pods, triage technical issues, guide solutions architecture, advocate for technical debt/backlog, and ensure teams ship products quickly while aligning architecture with business goals.

Lead and grow the engineering organization, drive architecture and roadmap with the CTO, recruit and develop engineers, ship production software, establish processes for speed and quality, and collaborate with clinical stakeholders to translate needs into product.

Lead development and implementation of network and telecommunications design standards for AI-focused data center campuses. Oversee design, construction, commissioning, and operations of campus fiber networks, carrier interconnections, structured cabling, and telecommunications facilities. Manage consultants, contractors, and vendors; review engineering deliverables; support site selection, testing, and turnover. Ensure resiliency, scalability, maintainability, and incorporate customer connectivity requirements while evaluating emerging networking technologies to optimize cost and delivery.