# Director of Engineering at Blitzy

- Company: Blitzy
- What the company does: Blitzy: Build enterprise software in days with our autonomous AI platform. Automate up to 80% of development. Infinite code context. Accelerate your roadmap by 5x. Backed by Battery.
- Company website: https://blitzy.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Cambridge, MA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $250K to $330K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-26
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/blitzy/83b0105d-85db-4275-ae35-f7932c78ad4e
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/blitzy-director-of-engineering/

## About the role

We are hiring a Director of Engineering to lead and scale the engineering teams responsible for Blitzy’s most critical production systems. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will own engineering execution across our backend platform, infrastructure, and AI product surface — directly managing and developing a team of Principal and Senior Engineers.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of engineering management experience, including direct management of senior or principal-level engineers
- Background in hands-on software engineering with deep backend expertise and the ability to reason effectively about production code
- Proven track record of delivering complex software products reliably and at scale
- Experience leading teams that build and operate cloud-native, distributed systems in production environments
- Strong technical knowledge of Python, microservices, REST APIs, and gRPC
- Familiarity with GCP, AWS or Azure, Kubernetes, and Terraform

Tags: Engineering