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:

1. Intro chat
2. Technical Interview
3. 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.