Director of Engineering, Data Platform

Pendo·Raleigh, NC·Posted 27 October 2026

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The team + the role Pendo's Data Platform is the backbone of everything we do. Our systems process more than 50 billion events per day, peaking at over 1 million events per second, and manage dozens of petabytes of data across several production environments. The platform powers real-time data ingestion, batch processing, and analytics at scale — and the instrumentation standards that keep our entire codebase observable. It's built primarily in Go, runs on Google Kubernetes Engine, and relies on Cloud Pub/Sub, Firestore, Google Cloud Storage, Redis, and memcache. We expect the stack to evolve, and you'll help decide how. We're looking for a Director of Engineering to lead the teams that own this infrastructure. This is a leadership role with real technical depth — you'll set strategy, build and grow high-performing engineering teams, and partner closely with Site Reliability Engineering. You'll stay close enough to the code to review designs, debug production issues, and contribute when it matters. You'll also own the economics of running the platform at this scale and be a trusted voice with customers on performance, data integrity, and reliability. If you want a role where…

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