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.