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Director, Software Engineering

CrashPlan
Minneapolis, MN Full Time
POSTED ON 2/8/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/8/2025

Description

Director, Software Engineering - Remote, USA

Who We Are :

CrashPlan® provides cyber-ready data resilience and governance in a single platform for organizations whose ideas power their revenue. With its comprehensive backup and recovery capabilities for data stored on servers, on endpoint devices, and in SaaS applications, CrashPlan's solutions are trusted by entrepreneurs, professionals, and businesses of all sizes worldwide. From ransomware recovery and breaches to migrations and legal holds, CrashPlan's suite of products ensures the safety and compliance of your data without disruption.

What You Will Be Doing :

We are recruiting for a Director, Software Engineering to join our team. In this role, you will lead a highly technical and tenured team through the key components of the software development life cycle. With extensive leadership and team-building skills, you will develop and execute strategic corporate objectives across a broad organization. Using your software building skills and solid technical background, you will lead the team to improve products and solutions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Developing strategic mid-term planning within corporate initiatives
  • Participating in corporate development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people
  • Effectively coaching and mentoring others on their path of personal and professional growth
  • Communicating effectively and friction-free to the organization, to peers, and across the company
  • Delegating work effectively
  • Contributing to and managing organizational elements within the department budget
  • Closely working with product management to ensure priorities and objectives are aligned with business needs
  • Guiding work direction for individuals and multiple teams, reporting on progress, and making wise decisions to adapt plans as things change
  • Leading the organization toward building elegant solutions for complex technical problems
  • Evaluating and assessing technologies and tools to support the engineering effort across multiple teams or areas; respectfully challenging ideas, decisions, and the status quo
  • Working with test, QA, Information Experience, and support as part of the full product lifecycle
  • Facilitating and driving solutions on technical issues where engineers or teams may not have expertise to resolve them
  • Driving organizational changes, initiatives, and best practices within engineering as well as company wide

What You Bring :

Required Qualifications :

  • Bachelor's degree or an appropriate combination of education and experience in an engineering discipline
  • 10 years of experience leading and building development teams with a variety of disciplines and including supervisors and / or managers
  • Experience developing and executing strategic corporate objectives across a broad organization
  • Experience with the key components in the life-cycle of shipping software : prioritization, scoping, estimating, developing, testing and QA, documentation, release management, and support
  • Advanced in the primary languages of the team
  • Experience working in a SaaS environment
  • Proven track record of product delivery and effective team building
  • Demonstrable understanding of industry best practices in Software Development methodologies
  • Preferred Qualifications :

  • Experience in cross functional organizations, such as product management, operations, support, testing, documentation, or release management
  • Outward facing experience with customers, third-party vendors, like-companies or technical communities
  • The base salary range for this role is $200,000 - $250,000. This position is eligible for a variable bonus plan based on assigned targets, in addition to a full range of benefits. Final compensation will be dependent on various factors relevant to the position and the candidate such as geographical location, candidate qualifications, certifications, relevant job-related work experience, education, skillset and other relevant business and organizational factors, consistent with applicable law. This information is provided per the relevant state and local pay transparency laws for the location in which this position will be performed.

    CrashPlan values workplace diversity and ensuring an environment of mutual respect. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regards to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by law. We believe that diversity and inclusion are critical to our success, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer

    Salary : $200,000 - $250,000

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