Engineering Director of Shopping Platform Infrastructure Job Description
About Our Mission:
Millions of people worldwide visit our platform for creative inspiration, to plan memorable experiences, and to bring their ideas to life.
We're on a mission to empower everyone with the inspiration needed to create a fulfilling life.
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Discover a career where you drive innovation, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate individuality, and work in an environment that supports your best performance.
Creativity thrives at our company. Commerce is a core aspect of this experience. We're investing heavily in Commerce and seeking a visionary Engineering Director of Shopping Platform Infrastructure.
This leader will play a crucial role in expanding our Shopping Platform and ensuring the system's reliability and scalability to support the future of Commerce on our platform.
They will be responsible for developing and executing our company-wide Commerce strategy to enable seamless product discovery and fuel business growth.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead and inspire a high-performing engineering organization responsible for the Shopping Platform Infrastructure, setting a bold vision for scale, reliability, efficiency, and innovation.
* Develop and execute a roadmap to scale our Shopping infrastructure systems by 10X to tens of billions of product items, supporting rapid growth in product listings, merchants, and user engagements.
* Partner closely with product, data, and business teams to align catalog infrastructure with our overall Commerce strategy and deliver best-in-class shopping experiences.
* Drive technical excellence in data ingestion, processing, enrichment, storage, and downstream usage, ensuring catalog data is accurate, fresh, and easily accessible at massive scale.
* Champion operational excellence, implementing best practices for monitoring, reliability, and cost efficiency across all systems.
Our ideal candidate will have:
* 5+ years of management experience, with experience managing managers.
* 10+ years of industry experience in highly scalable and performant distributed systems.
* Proven experience leading large-scale infrastructure or platform teams, ideally in e-commerce, retail, or a high-growth technology environment.
* Demonstrated success in architecting and scaling distributed systems to support 10X+ growth in data volume and complexity.
* Strong strategic thinking and the ability to translate business goals into technical vision and execution.