Leadership Strategy:
Own and define the long-term vision and roadmap for Observability (metrics, tracing, logging, monitoring, alerting) and Search (indexing, discovery, data pipelines), aligning technology investments with product and business priorities.

Engineering Execution:
Lead high-performing teams of engineers and managers to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable systems. Collaborate with architects to design and implement core observability and search platforms used across business units and product teams.
Operational Excellence:
Ensure high standards for uptime, performance, and scalability. Continuously improve the observability and search platforms while staying aligned with evolving market innovations to maintain enterprise-scale capabilities and efficiency.
Product Collaboration:
Partner with Product Management and Design teams to co-define platform features, internal customer needs, and market opportunities. Translate product requirements into technical execution while contributing to product direction.
People Organization:
Recruit, mentor, and grow engineering leaders and ICs. Build a diverse, inclusive, and high-performance culture focused on innovation, accountability, and continuous learning.
Research Development:
Drive initiatives exploring new cloud, AI, and observability techniques. Encourage experimentation and prototyping to validate emerging technologies and approaches.Qualifications

15+ years of experience in software engineering and product development, with at least 5+ years in large-scale SaaS or platform leadership roles.
Bachelor s or Master s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
Hands-on experience with Observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Datadog) and Search technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Lucene, vector databases).
Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, and multi-tenant SaaS environments.
Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams and align technical initiatives with business outcomes.
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and organizational leadership skills.
Strategic thinker with a track record of delivering complex, scalable, and high-impact engineering solutions.

Skills Inventory

Observability Monitoring Systems (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Datadog)
Search Platforms Indexing (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Lucene, vector databases)
Cloud-Native Distributed Systems Architecture
AI/ML-Powered Search and Anomaly Detection
Product and Platform Strategy Alignment
Leadership Team Development in Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Organizations
Operational Excellence: Uptime, Performance, Scalability, and Cost Optimization
Stakeholder Management Cross-Functional Collaboration

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