Director, Software Engineering

Intuit

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Location
Mountain View, CA
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$308,000–$417,000 / yr
Posted
80 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

Intuit currently has 219 open roles on FindRole.

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The Director, Software Engineering will lead the Data Platform Infrastructure team to own the data infrastructure stack powering QuickBooks, TurboTax, and the Intuit Enterprise Suite. This role involves full ownership of the event bus, streaming, Kafka, storage databases, and multi-catalogue systems. The leader will drive organizational transformation by establishing operational excellence, incident management discipline, and process rigor while evolving the infrastructure roadmap to support AI-native workloads. Key responsibilities include building a world-class engineering organization, managing talent development, and partnering cross-functionally with product leaders to align infrastructure priorities with product roadmaps. The position requires deep technical fluency in streaming architectures, Kafka, and data catalogue systems within a large-scale, infrastructure-intensive technology environment to ensure data remains accessible, reliable, and actionable for various product teams.

Skills

Kafka Streaming Architectures Event Bus Data Infrastructure Storage Databases Data Cataloguing AI-native Workloads Incident Management Operational Excellence

What you'll do

  • Own the data infrastructure stack including event bus, streaming, Kafka, storage databases, and multi-catalogue systems.
  • Drive organizational transformation by establishing operational excellence, incident management discipline, and process rigor.
  • Evolve the infrastructure roadmap to support AI-native workloads and Intuit's AI transformation.
  • Build and develop a high-performing engineering team with deep bench strength and leadership succession.
  • Partner with product and platform leaders to align infrastructure priorities with product roadmaps.
  • Manage day-to-day execution on incidents, uptime, and technical details while setting long-term direction.
  • Represent data infrastructure strategy to VP, SVP, and CTO-level stakeholders.

What we're looking for

  • At least 18 years of experience in software engineering.
  • At least 7 years of experience leading a high-performing engineering team.
  • Deep technical fluency in streaming architectures, Kafka, event bus design, storage databases, and data catalogue systems at scale.
  • Proven track record of leading transformation in infrastructure organizations and instilling operational excellence.
  • Experience building teams from a thin starting point and developing high-potential talent.
  • Executive presence to represent data infrastructure strategy to VP, SVP, and CTO-level stakeholders.
  • Background from a large-scale, infrastructure-intensive technology environment.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field required; Master's Degree preferred.

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