Senior Director
Platform Engineering
Posted on 3/24/2023
INACTIVE
Signifyd

501-1,000 employees

Commerce protection platform eliminating fraud for retailers
Company Overview
Signifyd stands out as a leader in the field of commerce protection, offering a comprehensive platform that maximizes conversion and automates customer experience while eliminating fraud and consumer abuse. The company's competitive edge lies in its ability to leverage transactional and behavioral data from a vast network of global merchants, enabling it to identify and block fraudulent activity with a high degree of accuracy. With a clientele that includes Fortune 1000 and Digital Commerce 360 Top 1000 companies, and recognition as the leading provider of payment security and fraud prevention for the Top 1000 Retailers in 2022 & 2023, Signifyd's industry leadership is well-established.
Data & Analytics

Company Stage

Series E

Total Funding

$413.2M

Founded

2011

Headquarters

San Jose, California

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

-1%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

15%
Locations
Remote in USA • New York, NY, USA
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Requirements
  • 7+ years of work experience in leading engineering teams with a deep technical understanding of cloud platforms
  • Significant leadership experience in complex software engineering or technology organizations, ideally as a senior leader
  • Commitment to operational excellence demonstrated by prior experience at a high-availability, continuous deployment company
  • Past experience working with teams distributed across multiple time zones where much communication is written and asynchronous
  • Willing to work hours that facilitate collaboration with globally distributed team members in both Europe and Latin America
  • Excellent people leadership skills with a passion for developing leaders and engineers through coaching and mentoring
  • Previous experience with Databricks
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems, Information Technology, or related field (preferred)
  • Desirable: previous experience with GCP
Responsibilities
  • Grow and lead multiple teams of highly-engaged managers and engineers by hiring, coaching, and instilling a sense of ownership and impact
  • Build and contribute to a team culture that achieves a well-designed system through a commitment to learning and continuous improvement
  • Lead the vision and roadmap for the Platform Engineering organization by working with your leads, teams and executive partners across the company
  • Clearly communicate technical concepts to non-technical internal stakeholders as well as customers
  • Lead and manage a globally distributed team; improve on and champion new processes to enable smooth collaboration across offices and time zones
  • Enable engineering teams to create systems that meet uptime and latency Service Level Objectives while operating in a continuous release environment
  • Oversee and optimize spending on cloud providers and other third-party software tools to ensure cost of goods sold targets are met