About the role
We are looking for an Director / Head of Engineering with 5+ years of experience to lead and scale the engineering team behind the world's most popular open-source AI Gateway. You'll own engineering productivity, code quality, release health, hiring, and enterprise escalations — reporting directly to the founder/CTO. This is director-level scope at a meaningfully profitable, fast-growing startup trusted by NASA, Adobe, Netflix, and Stripe. You'll tackle genuinely hard problems: 100+ provider integrations, day-zero model launches, and a Rust migration in flight. If you thrive in high-ownership environments where process and accountability drive shipping velocity, this role is for you.
What will you be doing?
- Hold engineers accountable to their own metrics and own the team's goals so they ship what they commit to — standing up reliability and productivity tracking from scratch
- Own release health as the team moves fast: run root-cause analysis, drive regressions down, and run a weekly quality sync
- Co-own the technical roadmap with the CTO, including the Rust migration, keeping big changes gradual and well-architected
- Own enterprise escalations end-to-end with clear plans, crisp updates, and fast resolution paths
- Analyze capacity needs, define roles, and hire engineers to scale the team while protecting open-source community adoption
