Director of Engineering, Observability Product - Remote

Overview

We are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead product engineering teams responsible for the NetBox Labs Telemetry and Monitoring products which provide edge agents, network and infrastructure telemetry pipelines, alerting, dashboarding, and fleet control planes to our customers. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, this role is focused on delivering scalable, reliable, and innovative products built on the Orb observability platform. The ideal candidate will bring strong executional pace and a passion for building teams that move quickly and thoughtfully, while tackling complex challenges in distributed systems and high-volume data processing.

In Short

• Lead engineering teams focused on customer facing network and infrastructure observability, telemetry, monitoring products, and fleet-managed agents.
• Provide leadership and guidance for the architecture and evolution of our observability platform.
• Guide and grow international teams across telemetry ingestion, real-time analytics, visualization, and agent management.
• Drive excellence in how we ingest, store, and analyze massive network and telemetry data streams.
• Support team operations including backlog management, technical planning, and delivery execution.
• Foster a data-driven culture focused on rapid innovation, prototype-driven engineering, performance, and reliability.
• Collaborate across product, design, and platform engineering teams to ensure alignment.

Requirements

• Strong people leadership skills, with a track record of mentoring senior engineers.
• Experience leading cross-functional engineering teams across multiple international locations.
• 10+ years in engineering, including 5+ years in managing technical teams and 5+ years in a startup environment.
• A proven ability to move quickly through problem-solving cycles with strong judgment.
• History of delivering and finishing projects rapidly.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Deep expertise in networking and infrastructure, distributed systems, observability, data pipelines, or network telemetry.
• Proficiency in cloud-native architectures, data storage, and streaming technologies.

Benefits

• Opportunity to lead innovative engineering teams.
• Work with cutting-edge technology in observability and telemetry.
• Collaborative and supportive work environment.
• Focus on professional growth and development.
• Flexible work arrangements.