Engineering Director

About WEKA

WEKA is architecting a new approach to the enterprise data stack built for the age of reasoning. NeuralMesh by WEKA sets the standard for agentic AI data infrastructure with a cloud and AI-native software solution that can be deployed anywhere. It transforms legacy data silos into data pipelines that dramatically increase GPU utilization and make AI model training and inference, machine learning, and other compute-intensive workloads run faster, work more efficiently, and consume less energy.

WEKA is a pre-IPO, growth-stage company on a hyper-growth trajectory. We have raised $375M in capital with dozens of world-class venture capital and strategic investors. We help the world's largest and most innovative enterprises and research organizations, including 12 of the Fortune 50, achieve discoveries, insights, and business outcomes faster and more sustainably.

Role Overview

The Director of Engineering – Enablement will lead the teams responsible for deploying WEKA at scale, ensuring seamless day-2 operations, and driving ease-of-use across the product lifecycle. This leader will define the strategy and execution model for how customers and partners deploy, operate, and maintain WEKA environments — translating complex distributed infrastructure into reliable, manageable, and developer-friendly experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale engineering teams responsible for WEKA deployment automation, day-2 operations, and ease-of-use tooling.
• Own the design and delivery of Kubernetes operators and related cloud-native deployment frameworks for WEKA.
• Drive product and engineering alignment to ensure deployment, upgrade, and lifecycle management workflows are reliable and operationally excellent.
• Define and champion ease-of-use standards across the product, reducing operational complexity for customers and field teams.
• Mentor Team Leaders and Engineers to foster on-time delivery, quality development, productivity, and efficiency.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams — including QA, Product Management, and Support — in an agile environment.
• Develop resource plans and schedules, and actively participate in cross-functional release and roadmap planning.
• Engage in technical communication within the team and across other groups to ensure alignment and innovation.
  
  

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in storage, networking, and/or large-scale distributed systems environments.
• Deep, hands-on expertise with Kubernetes and the Kubernetes Operator pattern — including authoring operators, managing CRDs, and operating multi-cluster environments at scale.
• Proven experience building or leading teams focused on deployment automation, Day-2 operations (upgrades, scaling, observability, self-healing), and ease-of-use engineering.
• Proven track record managing development teams for at least 3–5 years.
• 5+ years of experience in C/C++ system-level programming.
• Extensive experience writing high-performance, testable, and maintainable code.
• Strong familiarity with hardware architecture (e.g., CPU cache, multi-threading, hyper-threading, NUMA).
• Experience implementing distributed and scalable algorithms and data structures.
• Familiarity with storage systems, databases, or other infrastructure technologies.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience contributing to filesystem, database, or similar data storage-related projects, with exposure to open-source community practices.
• Solid understanding of the Linux kernel, including performance implications of context switches, threads, memory allocations, page cache, etc.
• Proficiency in Python or other modern scripting languages.
• Experience with Helm, GitOps workflows, and cloud-native operational tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Hands-on experience in storage or related technical domains from current or previous roles.
  
  

Our Commitment To Diversity

At WEKA, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you are excited about this position but concerned that your past experience doesn't match up perfectly with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway — you may be just the right candidate for this or other roles at WEKA.

WEKA is an equal opportunity employer that prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.