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David Careers

Director of Engineering

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yottabotColumbia (SC)
Computer Systems Engineers/ArchitectsSoftware Publishers

SENIORITY

Manager

SALARY

$500,000 – $950,000

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About the role

Base Salary: $500,000 – $950,000 USDAbout YottaBotYottaBot's mission is to give every AI system the same access controls, security, governance and visibility, wherever it runs. Whether you're one person seeking an answer to your question, someone building an application, or an enterprise running thousands of agents, we want to ensure that your AI systems are safe and intuitive to operate and scale. To that end, we're growing our team of researchers, engineers, designers, business leaders and professionals.
About the role: YottaBot's products share identity, execution, data and operational infrastructure. You will lead the engineering organization that makes those products work together under real customer load. This is a technical leadership role: hire and develop strong engineers, resolve cross-product architectural decisions, and make delivery and reliability measurable as we grow from thousands toward millions of users. You will work with research leadership to turn Namu Root and specialist agents into dependable product capabilities without treating a research result as production acceptance.
What you'll do:
  • Establish clear ownership between product engineers and shared platform teams, especially for authorization, data contracts, execution lifecycle and on-call response.
  • Lead capacity and reliability planning across APIs, databases, queues and Kubernetes clusters. Require realistic workload models, failure tests and evidence before claiming a new scale target.
  • Review critical architecture and code, including operator reconciliation, tenant boundaries, schema evolution and compatibility across SaaS and self-hosted releases.
  • Build a delivery process with reproducible artifacts, safe migrations, staged rollouts and tested recovery; make release friction and escaped defects visible.
  • Hire and coach principal engineers and managers, resolve technical disagreements with written reasoning, and give teams enough focus to finish and operate what they ship.
  • Define the handoff from research experiments to product releases: versioned models and harnesses, independent evaluations, serving requirements and rollback criteria.
  • You may be a good fit if youHave led engineering organizations through substantial product and operational growth while retaining the ability to interrogate a difficult design or production failure.
  • Have deep practical knowledge of Kubernetes, Kubernetes operators, Linux and distributed systems, including consistency, overload, failure isolation and recovery.
  • Have made capacity and architecture decisions for services with large user populations and can explain the workload measurements behind them.
  • Can evaluate Go or Rust services and React applications, coach technical leaders and distinguish a local optimization from a shared-system bottleneck.
  • Have built effective hiring, performance and incident-review practices with specific examples of how they improved engineering outcomes.
  • Representative projects
  • Build a cross-product load and failure program that identifies the first bottlenecks between current adoption and a million-user workload model.
  • Establish compatible SaaS and self-hosted release paths with tested migration and recovery procedures.
  • Clarify ownership across identity, agent execution and product teams so a cross-service incident has an accountable response and durable follow-through.
  • You'll stand out if youHave scaled an organization while reducing operational load per engineer and can show how you measured it.
  • Have led a substantial platform migration without leaving customer compatibility or data recovery to chance.
  • Have brought research-heavy capabilities into production with clear evaluation, security and reliability gates.
  • Have used Boo, our coding agent, and have prepared critical feedback on your experience and ways you would improve it.
Logistics
Location: 100% remote within the United States.
Visa sponsorship: we do not sponsor visas.
Education: a Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent experience. We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every qualification listed. Your safety matters to us. YottaBot recruiters only contact candidates from @yotta.bot email addresses. If you're not sure a message is from us, check the /careers. How we’re different YottaBot has been AI-native since its inception, and fully remote from day one. Staying fully remote is a commitment, not an experiment. We hire carefully. We grow when the work calls for it and avoid hiring sprees, so that we never have to put our team through a disruptive reduction in force. We are fully bootstrapped, with healthy cash reserves and no runway risk. That lets us make decisions for the long term. Come work with us! YottaBot is headquartered in Irvine, California, and every role is fully remote within the United States. We offer competitive compensation, quarterly bonuses, equity for most roles, generous vacation and parental leave and flexible working hours. If our mission sounds like yours, we'd love to hear from you! For any careers-related questions, email.

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