Bandwidth is looking for a Vice President of Software Development to lead a large software engineering organization, define technical strategy, and enable teams to ship quickly and safely with strong reliability practices for their multi-region, high-availability platforms.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in distributed systems (partitioning, consensus, backpressure, idempotency, caches, data integrity).
- Operating tier-1, high-throughput, low-latency services in multi-region cloud; on-call/incident leadership experience.
- Proven adoption of DORA/four keys and demonstrated improvements to velocity and stability.
- Track record implementing progressive delivery and safe deploys at scale.
- Built/modernized platforms (K8s, service mesh, CI/CD, observability, secrets, auth) with broad team adoption.
- Operational mindset; defined SLIs/SLOs, ran error-budget policies, and institutionalized blameless postmortems.
- Experience enabling AI/LLM use in products (guardrails, evals/telemetry, data boundaries).
Responsibilities
- Set a 18 to 24 month technical strategy across platform, data, reliability, and AI enablement; translate into org design and staffing.
- Drive service decomposition and multi-region/active-active architectures with clear SLIs/SLOs and error budgets.
- Instrument delivery with DORA metrics / four keys and use data to improve lead time, deployment frequency, MTTR, and change failure rate.
- Raise engineering quality via lightweight design docs/RFCs and high-signal code reviews; enforce security/privacy by design.
- Partner tightly with Product/Design/Operations/Infosec on roadmaps, investment cases, and cloud cost outcomes; communicate to the senior leadership team.
- Built/modernized platforms (K8s, service mesh, CI/CD, observability, secrets, auth) with broad team adoption.
- Operational mindset; defined SLIs/SLOs, ran error-budget policies, and institutionalized blameless postmortems.
Other
- 10+ years in software; 5+ years leading leaders (EMs/Directors) across orgs of 50 – 100+.
- Consistent bar-raiser in recruiting, hiring, and coaching engineers to high performance.
- Demonstrated high-integrity decision making
- Leadership in values-led cultures; excellent communication to execs and external stakeholders.
- Make principled, transparent decisions – especially under ambiguity or pressure.
