Director of Software Development, Aviatrix Systems
$271.6-319.5k
+ Equity
1 day a week in office (Santa Clara, CA)
Secure cloud networking
Open for applications
Secure cloud networking
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$271.6-319.5k
+ Equity
1 day a week in office (Santa Clara, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower businesses to accelerate innovation, minimize downtime, and gain control of IT costs.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including hands-on contributions to large-scale distributed systems
- 5+ years in engineering leadership roles (managing teams and influencing cross-functional technical direction)
- Excellent software engineering skills: ability to write clean, testable, and maintainable code
- Strong understanding of elegant and robust designs, including designing APIs
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems
- Experience working with cloud technologies, especially with AWS/Azure
- Experience designing and operating a PaaS/SaaS product at scale
- Ability to deliver results in a short time and experience working in fast-paced, high-growth tech companies
- Demonstrated abilities to learn quickly, design efficiently, and write quality software code
- Team player that works well in collaborative situations and start-up environments, with a geographically distributed team
- Excellent interpersonal skills, verbal, and written communication
What the job involves
- We are seeking a hands-on Director, Software Development to lead Aviatrix’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Team
- You will guide a senior team of 6 - 10 engineers, shaping technical direction, scaling the team, and delivering enterprise-grade software for Aviatrix’s multi-cloud platform
- You will balance selective hands-on contributions with leadership responsibilities, ensuring your team delivers secure, performant, and scalable software
- You will support the deployment of performant cloud software at scale and will be responsible for your own product components including their design, development, and support
- As a technical leader, you will collaborate across engineering, product, and go-to-market functions, and represent Aviatrix externally with customers and partners
- Define and drive the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for Aviatrix’s PaaS platform
- Provide selective hands-on contributions to critical components, while guiding the design, development, and operations of the broader system
- Lead by example, mentor the team, and establish credibility through quality technical execution and decision-making
- Apply engineering leadership and deep knowledge of software development at scale to lead the operation, adoption, and evolution of our services
- Partner with product management and GTM functions to align technical execution with customer and business priorities
- Build, scale, and develop a high-performing engineering team; oversee hiring, career development, and performance management
- Foster a culture of accountability, technical excellence, diversity, equity, and respect
- Be responsible for your own product components, their design, development, and day 2 operations
- Represent Aviatrix in cross-functional forums and with customers as a technical leader
Our take
Aviatrix is trying to modernise cloud technology by overcoming the isolation of different clouds that are built and operated by different companies. Its software facilitates multi-cloud networking, providing visualization, smooth data access, and firewall management.
The cloud revolution caused a mass migration of companies’ data from on-premise storage to cloud storage, but this migration is still ongoing. Aviatrix’s software helps with this migration and then allows these clouds to communicate with each other, while maintaining security, data integrity, automation, and user friendliness.
The rapid growth and enormous potential in this market has been noted by other companies and while investments are currently high, the space is likely to become crowded as competitors such as Site24x7 offer similar services. However, Aviatrix is a well-placed early adopter in an area of networking that hasn’t seen true innovation for years. It has also been named as one of 2024 's fastest growing private companies by Inc 5000, indicating its strong position.
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Insights
-30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Sep 2021
$200m
SERIES E
Feb 2021
$75m
SERIES D
Total funding: $340.8m
Company benefits
- Stock options for all full-time employees
- Parental Leave (up to 12 weeks)
- Flexible Vacation
- Up to $1000 education reimbursement anually
- World-class coverage - we pay 100% of employee premiums and 88% of the family cost
- 401K
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
Leadership
Sherry Wei
(Advisor)Having taken a PhD at Purdue University, they worked in Technical Staff at Centillion Networks and Ardent Communications before spending almost 14 years at Cisco Systems as an Engineer Manager. They then worked at Huawei for just over a year before founding Aviatrix in January 2013.
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