Director, Engineering

Muck Rack is the leading SaaS platform for public relations and communications professionals. Our mission is to enable organizations to build trust, tell their stories, and demonstrate the unique value of earned media. Muck Rack’s AI-powered, comprehensive, and integrated platform streamlines the PR workflow to help businesses generate positive media coverage, monitor mentions to manage brand reputation, and analyze PR’s impact on business outcomes. By combining media database, monitoring, and reporting into one dynamic platform, we empower teams to collaborate seamlessly, pitch effectively, and analyze results faster and more efficiently.

Founder-controlled, fully distributed, and growing sustainably, Muck Rack has received several awards for its unparalleled culture and product from organizations like Inc., Quartz, G2, and BuiltIn. We value resilience, transparency, ownership, and customer devotion, and infuse these values into everything we do. 

Muck Rack’s Engineering team powers a platform that is meaningfully changing how journalists, PR pros, and marketers around the world work. We’re looking for a visionary and experienced director, engineering to lead our Platform and DevOps functions.

Reporting directly to the VP of engineering, the successful candidate will have oversight of and make significant contributions to the technical vision and strategy for our platform, ensuring its efficiency, stability, and scalability. Through their teams, they are responsible for the design, deployment, and maintenance of our robust infrastructure, our release processes through CI/CD pipelines, and championing automation, resilience, observability, and other best practices. This role will also involve fostering a security-first mindset, managing budgets, and liaising with stakeholders across departments. As a team leader, the director will build, mentor, and guide a high-performing and multi-disciplinary team in a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and operational excellence. We value leaders who balance strategic thinking with hands-on technical expertise and can effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What you’ll do:

• Define the technical vision and strategy for our application development efforts.
• Collaborate with, SVP of Engineering, and other technical leaders to align the platform's strategic goals with the company’s objectives.
• Lead and mentor teams of engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.   
• Own the technical roadmap for the Muck Rack experience, aligning it with the overall product strategy and business objectives. We're not just building features; we're building solutions that move the needle for our customers and the business.
• Drive the design, development, and implementation of high-quality software …