Director of Engineering

Director of Engineering

UK Remote (must be based in the UK)

£110,000 – £125,000 + Equity + Bonus

🌍 Growing start-up | Build a team | Series B funded

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a mission-driven company at the forefront of observability and developer experience. As Director of Engineering (Observability and Product) , you’ll play a key role in shaping our observability strategy, scaling product-focused engineering teams, and enabling the organisation to build and deliver software that is secure, reliable, and fast.

Note : This position focusses on customer facing observability and product delivery , than focusing on internal platform observability.

🎯 Key Details :

This is primarily a leadership role , but you’ll remain hands-on with technical and strategic decisions . We’re looking for someone who has grown with a fast-paced start-up or scale-up, for example, from SEED through Series A or B funding rounds. You should be confident driving technical direction while building and scaling high-performing engineering teams. Experience with observability platforms, monitoring stacks, and building product-led infrastructure will make you stand out.

🛠 Key Responsibilities of the Role :

• Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of our observability and product engineering function
• Build and scale teams focused on monitoring, reliability, and developer experience
• Define best practices for metrics, logging, and tracing across distributed systems
• Partner closely with engineering, product and platform teams to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable products
• Take ownership of optimising the processes for gathering, storing, and analysing high-volume telemetry and network data
• Guide the architectural vision and ongoing development of our observability platform, supporting tech leads in making design decisions while safeguarding resilience, scalability, and data integrity.

✅ What You’ll Bring :

Demonstrated leadership experience in scaling engineering teams in high-growth environments

10+ years of engineering experience, 5+ years in a managerial role

Proven track record of building and scaling distributed systems and ensuring high availability

Strong background with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) , container orchestration (Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code

History of delivering and finishing projects on-time, with clear examples of high-output execution

History of managing and growing remote / international teams

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to connect technical detail to business value

💡 Bonus if you have :

Telemetry, Monitoring, Networking, Infrastructure, Alerting, Dashboarding

Familiarity with AI / ML-driven monitoring or observability tools

Strong background in Python, Golang, or Java for building internal services

Skilled in using data platforms for telemetry and analytics, such as Grafana, Postgres, ClickHouse, Kafka , and Elastic

Deep understanding of distributed computing, systems performance, and reliability engineering

Knowledgeable about OpenTelemetry and related industry standards.

🙌 What’s on Offer

Salary up to £125k + equity + bonus

100% remote from anywhere in the UK

Unlimited holiday

Company-wide events and team socials

Travel to the US, Europe for team events and tech conferences

High-trust, high-impact culture

Work with cutting-edge observability and developer productivity tools in a collaborative, fast-moving environment

Supportive team with strong learning and development culture

Interview Process :

Intro chat

Technical Interview

Panel interview & meet the team

Please Note : This is a UK-remote role. You must be UK-based, and we are unable to offer visa sponsorship at this time.