What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Engineering - LinOS position at Lineage?
Location: Remote (U.S.-based preferred)
Department: Technology
Reports To: VP, Technology Products
Travel: Expected every other week for the first 90 days; 1-2x per month thereafter
Compensation: Competitive base salary 20% annual bonus target LTI potential
Drive Innovation. Build Scalable Solutions. Transform Logistics.
At Lineage, we are redefining temperature-controlled logistics, leveraging technology to enhance efficiency, reduce waste, advance sustainability, and transform the global food supply chain. Our unwavering commitment to innovation has earned us recognition on Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list and CNBC’s Disruptor 50, establishing us as an international leader in supply chain optimization.
The LinOS Engineering team is at the forefront of this evolution, driving forward cutting-edge solutions that reimagine industry standards.
About LinOS
LinOS is Lineage’s Industrial Operating System, a cutting-edge platform integrating warehouse management, warehouse control, and automation to ultimately optimize operations across our 400 global warehouses.
This platform is composed of several, tightly integrated applications, including a proprietary warehouse management system (WMS), a proprietary warehouse control system (WCS), a collection of next-generation mobile and web applications, an array of advanced decision-making algorithms, and an API/coordination layer to ensure that all these components can communicate and coordinate effectively.
The result is LinOS—a system-directed warehouse execution system that is intended to improve the efficiency and productivity of our warehouse operations.
Role Overview
We are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the engineering teams responsible for designing, building, and maintaining critical applications and integrations within the LinOS ecosystem. This role requires a highly technical leader who can drive engineering excellence, cross-functional collaboration, and scalable solutions. In this role, your will be at the center of LinOS development, helping to ensure the platform’s overall reach, impact, and long-term success.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Strategy:
Experience & Background:
This is an excellent position to begin your career path within Lineage! Success in this role enables greater responsibilities and promotions! A career at Lineage starts with learning about our business and how each team member plays a part each and every day to satisfy our customers’ requirements. Beyond that, you’ll help us grow and learn on our journey to be the very best employer in our industry. We’ll ask you for your opinion and ensure we do our part to keep you developing and engaged as we grow our business. Working at Lineage is energizing and enjoyable. We value respect and care about our team members.
Lineage is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is committed to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit workplace discrimination and unlawful harassment and retaliation. Lineage will not discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical or mental disability or any other protected status under federal, state and local law.
Benefits
Lineage provides safe, stable, reliable work environments, medical, dental, and basic life and disability insurance benefits, 401k retirement plan, paid time off, annual bonus eligibility, and a minimum of 7 holidays throughout the calendar year.
Department: Technology
Reports To: VP, Technology Products
Travel: Expected every other week for the first 90 days; 1-2x per month thereafter
Compensation: Competitive base salary 20% annual bonus target LTI potential
Drive Innovation. Build Scalable Solutions. Transform Logistics.
At Lineage, we are redefining temperature-controlled logistics, leveraging technology to enhance efficiency, reduce waste, advance sustainability, and transform the global food supply chain. Our unwavering commitment to innovation has earned us recognition on Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list and CNBC’s Disruptor 50, establishing us as an international leader in supply chain optimization.
The LinOS Engineering team is at the forefront of this evolution, driving forward cutting-edge solutions that reimagine industry standards.
About LinOS
LinOS is Lineage’s Industrial Operating System, a cutting-edge platform integrating warehouse management, warehouse control, and automation to ultimately optimize operations across our 400 global warehouses.
This platform is composed of several, tightly integrated applications, including a proprietary warehouse management system (WMS), a proprietary warehouse control system (WCS), a collection of next-generation mobile and web applications, an array of advanced decision-making algorithms, and an API/coordination layer to ensure that all these components can communicate and coordinate effectively.
The result is LinOS—a system-directed warehouse execution system that is intended to improve the efficiency and productivity of our warehouse operations.
Role Overview
We are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the engineering teams responsible for designing, building, and maintaining critical applications and integrations within the LinOS ecosystem. This role requires a highly technical leader who can drive engineering excellence, cross-functional collaboration, and scalable solutions. In this role, your will be at the center of LinOS development, helping to ensure the platform’s overall reach, impact, and long-term success.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Strategy:
- Lead and mentor internal and external engineering teams.
- Drive technical execution and ensure engineering decisions align with business objectives.
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and high performance.
- Partner with Product Management, Data Science, and Operations to align on priorities and deliverables.
- Own the development of mobile apps, web apps, APIs, and backend services.
- Ensure seamless integration between WMS, WCS, and automation algorithms.
- Participate in technical design reviews, debugging, and data modeling discussions.
- Drive sound engineering practices and technical decision-making.
- Support the expansion of LinOS to additional warehouses.
- Balance speed vs. long-term system stability when making technical trade-offs.
- Improve engineering processes and SDLC efficiencies.
- Maintain accountability for a $30M annual technology budget.
Experience & Background:
- 10 years of software engineering experience, including 5 years leading teams.
- Proven experience in large-scale, complex development for multi-system software builds.
- Strong technical architecture and software design experience.
- Experience working with geographically dispersed engineering teams.
- Strong understanding of system integrations, APIs, cloud-based architectures.
- Prior experience with high-scale platforms (1K users, distributed systems).
- Ability to debug and troubleshoot system-wide issues (hands-on in problem-solving).
- Familiarity with modern development methodologies (Agile, CI/CD, DevOps best practices).
- Strong cross-team collaboration skills (must work closely with Product, WMS, WCS, Data Science, etc.).
- Ability to drive consensus on technical solutions across different stakeholder groups.
- Effective communicator, capable of influencing without direct authority.
This is an excellent position to begin your career path within Lineage! Success in this role enables greater responsibilities and promotions! A career at Lineage starts with learning about our business and how each team member plays a part each and every day to satisfy our customers’ requirements. Beyond that, you’ll help us grow and learn on our journey to be the very best employer in our industry. We’ll ask you for your opinion and ensure we do our part to keep you developing and engaged as we grow our business. Working at Lineage is energizing and enjoyable. We value respect and care about our team members.
Lineage is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is committed to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit workplace discrimination and unlawful harassment and retaliation. Lineage will not discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical or mental disability or any other protected status under federal, state and local law.
Benefits
Lineage provides safe, stable, reliable work environments, medical, dental, and basic life and disability insurance benefits, 401k retirement plan, paid time off, annual bonus eligibility, and a minimum of 7 holidays throughout the calendar year.
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