Director of Engineering - Data Platform

Innovate with purpose

At BILL, we believe in empowering the businesses that drive our economy. By replacing outdated financial processes with innovative tools, we help businesses—from startups to established brands—make smarter decisions and gain control of their operations. And we don’t stop there: we’re creating the future of financial automation so businesses can spend more time on what matters.

Working here means you become part of a vision-driven team that’s ready to tackle challenges and build cutting-edge solutions. We value purpose, drive, and curiosity—and we thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. Whether in one of our offices in San Jose, CA, Draper, UT, or working remotely, BILLders collaborate to deliver real impact for businesses that need more time in their busy weeks.

At BILL, we listen, learn, and lead—fostering collaboration and a drive for continuous growth. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that values each person’s unique skills and experiences. Even if you don’t meet every requirement, we’d love to hear from you—you might be just what we’re looking for, whether in this role or another.

✨ Let’s give businesses more time for what matters.

If you are a passionate engineering leader who thrives on solving complex data challenges and driving impactful solutions, we’d love to hear from you! BILL operates a lean and modern data stack on the cloud to enable analytics, product insights, and machine learning. We are seeking a highly technical, innovative, and energetic Director of Engineering to accelerate our innovation. This role is critical in shaping the future of our data infrastructure. You will drive strategic initiatives, partner with stakeholders to create timely value, foster a culture of engineering excellence, enable data-driven decision-making across the company, and be a strong technical voice for driving our AI journey at BILL.

Data Infrastructure:

• Develop and execute the strategic technical roadmap for the data platform
• Has designed and operated lakehouse, the supporting compute platforms, data products, eventing systems, and stream based solutions.
• Enable AI/ML workloads with a strong focus on agility and security.
• Dive deep into problems, including code in programming languages such as Python, Java, or Scala and infrastructure management practices like infrastructure as code.
• Deep expertise in big data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Flink, Redshift, Trino, Iceberg, and similar on AWS
• Ensure compliance with data governance, privacy, and security policies.
• Experienced in instrumentation and analytics

Technical Leadership:

• Lead and mentor a team of data platform engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.
• Collaboratively engage product, engineering, analytics, and business stakeholders to unblock the team and dependent business initiatives through influence.
• Push the boundaries to raise the bar on what is possible with infectious energy and be a strong voice for the team.
• 7+ years in a leadership role, managing and scaling engineering, and 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong background in data infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Enthusiastic and clear communication and stakeholder management skills
• B.S. in Computer Science or related field

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The estimated salary  range for this role is noted below for our San Jose based role.  Our ranges for each role and job level are based on a variety of factors including candidate experience, expertise, and geographic location and may vary from the amounts listed above. The role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, flexible spending & health savings account, paid holidays, paid time off, and other company benefits.

What’s in it for you? 

Redefining how businesses automate their work is a fast-paced, exciting, and fun environment. But we also have benefits and perks to ensure the magic isn’t only experienced by our customers, but by our employees as well. 

Here is a preview of some of the amazing benefits here at BILL:

• 100% paid employee health, dental, and vision plans (choose HMO, PPO, or HDHP)
• HSA & FSA accounts 
• Life Insurance, Long & Short-term disability coverage
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 11+ Observed holidays and wellness days and flexible time off 
• Employee Stock Purchase Program with employee discounts
• Wellness & Fitness initiatives
• Employee recognition and referral programs
• And much more

Don’t believe us? Check out our culture, benefits, and teams on our career site, LinkedIn Life, or YouTube pages.

BILL is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion. We believe our best ideas come from the unique stories, perspectives, and experiences of our team members. We welcome people of all backgrounds, abilities, and identities to bring their authentic selves and contribute to our culture.

We are committed to a transparent, inclusive hiring process that reflects our values. If you need accommodations at any stage, please contact interviewaccommodations@hq.bill.com.

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