Mission
Own engineering execution across BrightFlow, Albright Studios, Albright Holdings, and platform infrastructure. Build the engineering org that ships product weekly and operates 24x7 at trading-grade reliability.
Responsibilities
- Hire, mentor, and manage engineering managers and principal engineers
- Set the technical roadmap in partnership with product and the CEO
- Own production reliability, on-call posture, and incident response
- Drive technical decisions across cloud, K8s, ML infra, and data platforms
- Establish engineering standards: code review, testing, deployment, SLOs
- Partner with security on SOC2 / CMMC technical controls
- Represent engineering to the board, customers, and federal auditors
Required qualifications
- 10+ years engineering experience; 5+ years managing managers
- Track record scaling an engineering org from <20 to 50+
- Hands-on background in distributed systems, cloud, and modern data infra
- Experience operating production systems with strict SLAs
Preferred qualifications
- Experience at a federal-services or fintech company
- Familiarity with K8s, Postgres, Triton/NVIDIA AI infra
- Prior VP Engineering or Head of Engineering role
- Secret clearance or eligibility