Director of Engineering, Boulevard
Cloud & Reliability
$201-288k
Salary may differ for CAD candidates. Plus equity
Business management platform for self-care businesses
Open for applications
Business management platform for self-care businesses
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$201-288k
Salary may differ for CAD candidates. Plus equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone to look and feel their best – one client, professional, appointment, and business at a time.
Role
Who you are
- This role is perfect for a technical leader who wants to build the infrastructure platform that becomes the backbone of Boulevard's next phase of growth
- 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and platform engineering, with 5+ years leading infrastructure teams of 5-15 engineers
- Deep experience with AWS services including EKS, RDS, VPC, IAM, and infrastructure automation using Terraform
- Proven experience migrating applications to Kubernetes/EKS and implementing container-based architectures
- Strong background in security practices, compliance frameworks (PCI, HIPAA, SOC 2), and security automation
- Experience transforming CI/CD pipelines, implementing GitOps practices, and enabling rapid software delivery
- Expertise with monitoring and observability tools (DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana) and implementing comprehensive alerting strategies
- Proven ability to work with Product Engineering, Data Engineering, and Platform Services teams to enable their technical initiatives
What the job involves
- We're hiring a Director of Engineering - Cloud & Reliability to lead our infrastructure transformation and establish industry leading reliability practices
- This role will be instrumental in evolving Boulevard's infrastructure into a scalable, reliable, secure, and highly available platform that supports our rapid growth and customer needs across a spectrum of market segments (Small Business, Franchises, Enterprises)
- Reporting to the SVP of Engineering, you'll lead a team of infrastructure and reliability engineers while driving the technical strategy for our cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and platform capabilities
- Your work will directly enable the Engineering & Data teams to deliver APIs, services, customer-facing products and data capabilities at scale by providing robust, self-service infrastructure foundations
- You'll architect and implement modern infrastructure practices including containerization, infrastructure-as-code, advanced CI/CD pipelines, and comprehensive observability systems
- Cloud Infrastructure & Platform - Design, implement, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure including multi-region deployments, and infrastructure-as-code
- DevOps & CI/CD - Transform deployment pipelines, implement container orchestration, and enable rapid, reliable software delivery
- Observability & Reliability - Implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and incident response using DataDog and related tools
- Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity - Establish DR infrastructure, failover systems, and business continuity planning across all Boulevard services
- Infrastructure Automation - Build self-service infrastructure capabilities and advanced automation using Terraform and GitOps practices
- Security & Compliance - Establish comprehensive security practices, manage compliance frameworks (PCI, HIPAA, SOC 2), and implement security-by-design principles
- EKS Migration & Containerization: Lead the migration from current infrastructure to Amazon EKS, implementing container orchestration and services-ready architecture
- Multi-Region DR Implementation: Design and implement hot-hot disaster recovery with automated failover, load balancing, and regular testing procedures
- CI/CD Pipeline Transformation: Modernize deployment pipelines to support faster, more reliable deployments
- Advanced Observability: Enhance comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and incident response using DataDog, enabling proactive issue detection and resolution
- Security Framework: Establish enterprise-grade security practices, compliance frameworks, and automation to support Data team's governance requirements
- Infrastructure-as-Code Evolution: Scale Terraform usage, implement GitOps practices, and create self-service infrastructure capabilities
- Database Scaling: Address current RDS limitations and implement scalable database architecture
- Technical Leadership: Define and execute the long-term infrastructure and security strategy, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security as Boulevard grows
- Team Building: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of infrastructure and reliability engineers, establishing best practices and fostering a culture of operational excellence
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product, Services and Data Engineering teams to provide the infrastructure foundation for their initiatives
- Architecture & Design: Drive architectural decisions for cloud infrastructure, security systems, and operational practices
- Operational Excellence: Establish monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices that ensure high availability and performance
- Compliance Management: Ensure compliance with industry standards (PCI, HIPAA, SOC 2) and implement security controls
Our take
Boulevard is a business management platform developed to help streamline the operations of appointment-based businesses, particularly spas and hairdressers. Boulevard addresses the challenges of spas and hairdressers by designing software that makes it easier to automate workflows, scheduling, and pricing, helping drive customers through their doors.
The global spa and salon market is expected to reach a market size in excess of $215 billion by 2026. Traditionally, appointment-based businesses are heavily reliant on paperwork and receptionists, but Boulevard is looking to modernise the industry by helping drive efficiencies, profit, and better customer experience.
Boulevard is one in a sea of companies offering software to digitizing appointment-based businesses. However, the substantial funding it has raised across multiple rounds demonstrates that it has maintained traction in the market as it grows, with investment cited to go towards hiring talent and building more tools to reach a wider set of users. To bolster its offering in a competitive marketplace, Boulevard launched Boulevard Capital in 2024, a growth funding platform for businesses that use its booking software.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2022
$70m
SERIES C
Nov 2020
$27m
SERIES B
Total funding: $108m
Company benefits
- Premier Health Benefits - 100% coverage plan options from Blue Shield of CA, Beam, and VSP
- Flexible Vacation & PTO
- Quarterly Bonus - Get rewarded when we reach our revenue targets
- 401k Match
- Boulevard Bucks - Get $200 to experience a Boulevard partner or self-care provider every quarter
- $250 upon signing and $75 monthly for your home workspace
- Fully Remote
Company HQ
Central LA, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Matt Danna
(CEO)Started their career with 6 years in Product at DeviantArt, before working at Fullscreen as VP of Product. After brief Product Consultancy roles, they co-founded Boulevard as CEO in February 2016.
Sean Stavropoulos
(CTO)They studied at California Polytechnic before working as a Honeywell Aerospace Systems Engineer and in Engineering at Fullscreen for almost 3 years. They spent a year as a Startup Consultant before co-founding Boulevard with Matt.
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