Senior Director of Engineering

<p>Lattice's Engineering team continuously works to improve our product, our systems, and our craft. We embrace modern technologies, invest in engineering excellence, and prioritize building maintainable, reliable, and scalable solutions. We work closely across engineering, product, and design to deliver exceptional experiences for our customers while fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning.</p> <h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p>We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team within our Platform Engineering organization.</p> <p>Our mission is to empower engineers who take ownership, seek accountability, and care deeply about delivering reliable and performant experiences to end users. We do this by providing a cohesive platform of intuitive tools, proven patterns, and seamless infrastructure that make the responsible path the easiest one.</p> <p>As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team responsible for building and evolving foundational capabilities that enable engineers across Lattice to deliver high-quality products efficiently, reliably, and at scale. You'll partner closely with engineers, product leaders, and stakeholders throughout the organization to improve engineering effectiveness, strengthen operational excellence, and support long-term platform investments.</p> <p>This is an opportunity to have broad impact across the engineering organization while helping build a culture that values ownership, accountability, and customer-centric thinking.</p> <h2><strong>What You Will Do</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers, supporting their growth and helping them do the best work of their careers.</li> <li>Foster a healthy, inclusive, and high-performing engineering culture aligned with Lattice's values.</li> <li>Partner with engineering and cross-functional stakeholders to identify and prioritize opportunities that improve platform capabilities, developer effectiveness, and operational excellence.</li> <li>Drive execution against team goals and ensure the successful delivery of impactful technical initiatives.</li> <li>Support your team in making thoughtful technical and operational decisions that balance velocity, reliability, maintainability, and long-term sustainability.</li> <li>Establish clarity around priorities, goals, and success metrics in an environment that may involve ambiguity and competing priorities.</li> <li>Help build and scale engineering processes that improve team effectiveness and delivery outcomes.</li> <li>Contribute to hiring efforts and help attract, assess, and onboard exceptional engineering talent.</li> <li>Collaborate with engineering leaders to shape priorities and investments across the broader platform organization.</li> </ul> <h2>What You Will Bring to the Table</h2> <ul> <li>Experience managing and developing software engineers.</li> <li>A track record of delivering impactful technical initiatives through high-performing teams.</li> <li>Strong partnership and communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across functions and organizational boundaries.</li> <li>Experience leading teams responsible for platform, infrastructure, shared services, developer productivity, or other foundational engineering systems.</li> <li>Sound technical judgment and the ability to engage in architectural and operational discussions with engineers.</li> <li>A passion for building healthy engineering cultures and supporting individual growth and career development.</li> <li>Experience balancing short-term execution with long-term technical investments.</li> <li>Comfort operating in environments with ambiguity, autonomy, and ownership.</li> <li>A strong appreciation for reliability, operational excellence, scalability, and engineering effectiveness.</li> <li>Experience with cloud-based systems and modern software development practices.</li> </ul> <h3>Nice to Have</h3> <ul> <li>Experience supporting internal platform, infrastructure, developer experience, or productivity initiatives.</li> <li>Familiarity with technologies commonly used at Lattice, including AWS, Node.js, React, GraphQL, and Postgres.</li> <li>Experience helping organizations improve engineering velocity, developer experience, reliability, or operational maturity.</li> </ul> <h3>Why This Role Matters</h3> <p>Platform teams have an outsized impact on the success of every engineering team at Lattice. The work done here helps create the foundation that enables