Director, Software Engineering, Dev Ops

Intuit

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On-site
Location
Mountain View, CA
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$308,000–$417,000 / yr
Posted
4 days ago
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Intuit is a financial software company known for products like TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint, and Credit Karma, helping consumers and small businesses manage their finances and taxes. Industry: Financial Software & Technology

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TL;DR · Director, Software Engineering, Dev Ops

The Director, Software Engineering - Dev Ops joins the QuickBooks engineering leadership team to lead the operational excellence, modernization, data infrastructure, database engineering, and developer productivity agenda. This leader is responsible for driving 99.99% availability across a large portfolio of business-critical assets while balancing revenue priorities with platform resilience and engineering velocity. Key responsibilities include overseeing data pipelines, warehouse architecture, transactional schema design, and database scaling. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, and CI/CD modernization. The candidate will utilize AI fluency to improve engineering workflows, automation, and testing. Core competencies include leading reliability programs, incident management, capacity planning, and resiliency engineering to support scalable growth for Mid-Market and Multi-entity businesses across complex product portfolios and legacy systems.

What you'll do

  • Drive operational excellence to achieve 99.99% availability across 500+ business-critical assets.
  • Modernize QuickBooks platforms to support scalable growth for Mid-Market and Multi-entity customers.
  • Lead data infrastructure and engineering teams responsible for reliable pipelines, warehouse architecture, and data foundations.
  • Oversee database engineering including transactional schema design, performance scaling, and operational readiness.
  • Transform developer productivity through AI-assisted engineering, automation, and CI/CD modernization.
  • Lead enterprise-wide change to reduce operational complexity across multiple teams and technology assets.
  • Create operating mechanisms and metrics that balance short-term revenue priorities with long-term platform health.
  • Build and develop a leadership team that models technical depth and operational rigor.

What we're looking for

  • Proven experience leading large-scale engineering organizations responsible for business-critical platforms, operational excellence, and production health.
  • Deep technical judgment across distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, data infrastructure, and transactional database scaling.
  • Experience leading enterprise-scale reliability programs including SLOs, incident management, observability, and capacity planning.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive platform transformation across complex product portfolios and legacy systems.
  • Strong understanding of data pipelines, warehouse design, and governance for trusted data platforms.
  • Experience transforming developer productivity through automation, CI/CD modernization, and AI-assisted development.
  • Ability to lead enterprise-wide operating-model change and influence cross-functional leaders in Engineering, Product, and Security.
  • AI fluency and practical experience applying GenAI or agentic engineering concepts to improve engineering workflows (preferred).

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