Sr. Director, Engineering (Shared Services)

1 month ago
Full-time
Executive
Quality Assurance and Testing
Backblaze

Backblaze

Backblaze is a pioneer in robust, scalable low-cost cloud backup and storage services, offering enterprise hot storage, low-cost backup and archive solutions. With the easiest way to back up all files, Backblaze provides unlimited, unthrottled, and unc...

IT Services
251-1K
Founded 2007

Description

  • Oversee Quality Engineering, Data Engineering, and the Project Management Office to deliver operational excellence across engineering.
  • Define and execute a strategy to transition quality practices toward automated testing, CI/CD, and modern test infrastructure.
  • Lead design, build, and maintenance of scalable data pipelines, warehousing, and data governance to ensure reliable, actionable data for BI and decision-making.
  • Drive integration of AI/ML tools into quality operations to enable test generation, anomaly detection, and other automated quality improvements.
  • Integrate AI into PMO and engineering workflows to reduce toil, increase efficiency, and improve project predictability.
  • Elevate the PMO to enable alignment and predictability across complex engineering initiatives while removing bottlenecks to velocity.
  • Recruit, develop, and mentor a diverse, high-performing technical leadership team within Shared Services to scale organizational capability.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Cloud Operations, and other stakeholders to align quality standards, data availability, and project delivery with customer and commercial outcomes.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of engineering and operations leadership experience in scale-up or mid-to-large technology environments, with focus areas such as Quality Engineering, Data Engineering, Release Management, or Shared Services.
  • Proven experience leading data engineering teams and modern data stacks, including ETL/ELT pipelines, data warehousing, and data governance to support analytics and AI.
  • Demonstrated expertise shifting quality organizations from manual to automated testing frameworks and operating CI/CD pipelines and modern testing infrastructure.
  • Experience building and scaling AI/ML initiatives within internal operations to deliver measurable operational value.
  • Experience overseeing a Project Management Office or Technical Program/Program Management functions to deliver projects with clarity and predictability.
  • Track record of building and leading distributed, global teams with strong emotional intelligence and cultural fluency.
  • Strong stakeholder communication skills with the ability to present complex quality and project health data to executive peers and partners.
  • Experience leading change management and technical modernization efforts, including adoption of new AI tools and agile methodologies; hands-on technical involvement in automation and data architecture discussions.

Benefits

  • Transparent expected base salary range for US candidates: $215,000 - $325,000.
  • Company commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and an Equal Opportunity Employer policy fostering belonging and inclusive culture.
  • Public company stability and scale (Nasdaq-listed, $100M+ revenue, serving 500K+ customers) offering the chance to lead high-impact, mission-critical work.
  • Opportunity to lead and shape the company’s internal AI strategy and operational transformation across quality, data, and program management.

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