Top Director of Engineering Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Lead and grow the product engineering team, strengthen engineering processes and culture, operationalize AI across the SDLC, own governance for agentic systems, set architectural direction, partner cross-functionally, and drive hiring and team development.

Lead engineering for Partner Experience across Partner Acquisition & Delivery and Partner Reporting & Insights. Own team health, technical strategy, delivery velocity, and AI-native engineering adoption. Partner with product leadership on roadmap, coach engineering managers, drive architecture and resourcing decisions, and measure AI-augmented velocity while delivering partner onboarding, quoting, lead delivery, and reporting systems.

Lead operational engineering across three product lines: roadmap delivery, release coordination, incident/on-call programs, staffing and capacity planning, engineering metrics, and AI-native engineering governance. Manage and develop engineering managers, partner with Product and Finance, and quantify AI-assisted development ROI.

Lead a global platform engineering organization building embedded platform software, CI/CD and build infrastructure. Set strategy and roadmaps, improve developer throughput, integrate AI/LLM tooling, ensure secure reproducible builds for embedded Linux and kernels, track engineering metrics, and hire and mentor managers and senior engineers.

The role involves leading the engineering team to build and scale institutional trading capabilities across various asset classes while ensuring a robust architecture and technical standards.

Lead hardware engineering across opto-mechanical, structures, thermal, and avionics teams. Own design margin discipline, drive AIT build flow from mirror fabrication through environmental test, define make-vs-buy strategy, develop managers, partner with software/systems/program teams, and lead design reviews and anomaly investigations to scale production for VLEO missions.

Lead and grow the satellite software org (flight software, GNC, ground systems, applied AI). Own integrated software performance, simulation/HIL infrastructure, GNC analytical-to-flight closure, and cross-discipline technical leadership to meet autonomy and mission objectives.

Lead systems engineering and architecture for safety-critical autonomous drone systems. Define traceability and verification strategies, ensure regulatory compliance (DO-178C/DO-254/ARP4754A), lead safety assessments, select requirements/MBSE tools, mentor the team, and coordinate cross-functional integration through certification.

Lead and own the Internal Developer Platform strategy, team, and execution. Build cloud-native, self-service tooling that improves developer experience while balancing security, compliance, and reliability. Serve as platform product owner, define architecture, prioritize features, collaborate with engineering/product leaders, and communicate outcomes to executives.

Lead cross-functional engineering teams to own product outcomes, drive AI-powered product and development practices, direct data science efforts, mentor engineering leads, partner with product and execs, and ensure PCI-compliant delivery for a multi-tenant loyalty and travel SaaS platform.

Lead and grow ROOST's engineering team, set technical direction, drive high-quality open-source development and release practices, engage the external community as stakeholders, and contribute hands-on to code, architecture, and operational excellence.

Lead the engineering of a platform for digital assets, focusing on scalability, security, and team growth. Directly manage the development of critical systems supporting millions of users.

Lead Booking engineering (five teams) to deliver high-scale scheduling, booking, communications, telehealth, and marketplace systems. Hire and grow engineering leaders, shape technical and AI strategy (agentic workflows, evals), drive high-velocity delivery with quality, partner with Product and Design, and scale the org through new product lines and rising customer demand.

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.

Lead strategy, engineering, implementation, and operations of enterprise OT telemetry platforms. Ensure availability, security, scalability, and standardization of telemetry services; integrate OT data sources with enterprise and cloud platforms; build and mentor engineering teams; establish operational processes, monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and lifecycle management; evaluate vendor technologies and maintain technical documentation.

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 engineering for CHEMCAD, Flow Simulation, and GoldSim product lines. Drive modernization, CI/CD, automated testing, AI adoption in engineering and product features, improve delivery metrics, manage and mentor engineering leaders, define long-term architecture, reduce technical debt, and build repeatable onboarding and integration playbooks for acquisitions.

The Sr. Director of Applications Engineering will lead a team in developing photonics solutions, engage with clients, mentor engineers, and ensure effective technical communication.

Lead high-complexity privacy engineering initiatives across DuckDuckGo products. Own privacy reviews, audits, and technical programs from definition to delivery; build automation and privacy-preserving infrastructure; evolve triage and review processes; drive cross-functional projects; and hire and mentor privacy engineering talent while shaping company-wide privacy strategy.

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 the national Data Center delivery practice, owning end-to-end delivery of compute, storage, data protection, hybrid cloud, and GPU/AI infrastructure. Build and scale a high-performing delivery organization, ensure on-time/on-budget executions, define repeatable delivery frameworks, and collaborate with sales, solutions architecture, and technology partners to support large-scale, multi-site deployments.