Director, Engineering- Collaboration Services & Developer Edge (EMEA)

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Director, Engineering – Collaboration Services & Developer Edge in EMEA.

This leadership role offers the opportunity to shape and scale engineering capabilities across collaboration services and developer-facing platforms. You will oversee multiple teams responsible for delivering secure, reliable, and high-performing APIs, developer portals, and collaboration features across the EMEA region. As a strategic leader, you will set technical direction, foster a culture of engineering excellence, and ensure operational efficiency while driving impactful product delivery. This role combines deep technical ownership with cross-functional partnership, engaging with Product, Design, Security, and GTM teams to align outcomes with customer needs. You will mentor senior engineers and managers, champion developer experience, and drive continuous improvement in distributed teams. The position is fully remote from Bulgaria, offering exposure to cutting-edge cloud platforms and large-scale distributed systems.

Accountabilities

• Lead and scale engineering teams for Collaboration Services and Developer Edge, building a high-performing organization and promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
• Deliver customer-centric products while maintaining platform health, code quality, maintainability, and managing technical debt.
• Own platform reliability and security, defining SLOs/SLIs, driving incident readiness, and embedding security by design in APIs and services.
• Set technical direction for collaboration capabilities and API/edge architecture, including microservices, multi-region deployments, service mesh, rate-limiting, and observability.
• Run design and deployment reviews for high-impact changes, ensuring scalable rollouts, monitoring, and safe rollback paths.
• Hire, grow, and retain top engineering talent; mentor senior ICs and managers; create succession plans and influence technical culture across groups.
• Partner with Product and Design to define roadmaps, outcomes, and customer feedback loops; communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Establish operational excellence for distributed teams across time zones, using data-driven prioritization and clear accountability.

Requirements

• 11+ years of broad system architecture and engineering experience across multiple languages and frameworks.
• 3+ years leading engineering organizations of ~20+ engineers across multiple teams.
• Proven experience building highly available, secure, customer-facing microservices and multi-region cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Expertise in developer platforms: API design/lifecycle, gateways, service mesh, auth, quotas, telemetry, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong track record in engineering excellence: automated testing, CI/CD, TDD, deployment safety, and incident management.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence execs, product teams, and engineers; mentor senior talent.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum at scale and product-engineering collaboration best practices.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Fluency in English; legal eligibility to work in Bulgaria.
• Nice to have: experience with collaboration/work management products, prior ownership of API Gateways (Kong, Envoy, Apigee), developer portals, SDK governance, and GDPR/data privacy awareness.

Benefits

• Fully remote role within EMEA.
• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.
• Health and wellness support, including private insurance and employee assistance programs.
• Flexible working hours and discretionary time off.
• Professional development opportunities and learning budget.
• Inclusive and diverse work culture, with mentorship and career growth support.

Jobgether is a Talent Matching Platform that partners with companies worldwide to efficiently connect top talent with the right opportunities through AI-driven job matching.

When you apply, your profile goes through our AI-powered screening process designed to identify top talent efficiently and fairly.
🔍 Our AI evaluates your CV and LinkedIn profile thoroughly, analyzing your skills, experience, and achievements.
📊 It compares your profile to the job’s core requirements and past success factors to determine your match score.
🎯 Based on this analysis, we automatically shortlist the 3 candidates with the highest match to the role.
🧠 When necessary, our human team may perform an additional manual review to ensure no strong profile is missed.

The process is transparent, skills-based, and free of bias — focusing solely on your fit for the role.
Once the shortlist is completed, we share it directly with the company that owns the job opening. The final decision and next steps (such as interviews or additional assessments) are then made by their internal hiring team.

Thank you for your interest!