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Senior Director of Engineering, Infrastructure

San Francisco

PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a global leader in digital operations management. Trusted by nearly half of both the Fortune 500 and the Forbes AI 50, as well as approximately two-thirds of the Fortune 100, PagerDuty is essential for delivering always-on digital experiences to modern businesses.

Join us. At PagerDuty, you'll tackle complex problems, collaborate with kind and ambitious people, and help build a more equitable world—all in a flexible, award-winning workplace.

The world is always on. Let’s keep it that way. PagerDuty is the operations cloud trusted by thousands of enterprises to keep their digital services always available and responsive. To support that mission, we’ve built a resilient, secure, and modern cloud infrastructure that enables our customers to operate with confidence and empowers our internal teams to move fast and deliver world-class software.

The Infrastructure Group

Our Infrastructure group builds and evolves the foundation on which all of PagerDuty runs. This includes:

  • Cloud Delivery & Site Reliability: Driving scale, resiliency, and performance for our global SaaS platform.
  • Automation & Deployment Tooling: Enabling engineering velocity through CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automation.
  • Observability: Providing the visibility, metrics, and insights that power data-driven engineering.
  • Data Stores: Operating and scaling the distributed storage systems at the heart of our platform.
  • Developer Experience: Ensuring our engineering teams can deliver value to customers as soon as possible with best-in-place tooling and processes

The team’s mission is to ensure our infrastructure is not just keeping pace with customer needs, but staying ahead—so PagerDuty can grow reliably, securely, and efficiently.

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Director of Engineering to lead this critical group. You will set the vision for our infrastructure strategy, grow and mentor a team of leaders and engineers, and drive execution of high-impact initiatives that shape PagerDuty’s future. This role is both deeply technical and highly strategic: you’ll need to zoom into technical details when necessary, while also influencing peers and executives on business-critical decisions.

You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Security, Legal, and Customer teams, ensuring our infrastructure underpins not only engineering velocity but also customer trust, compliance, and business innovation.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the multi-year strategy for PagerDuty’s infrastructure and platform foundations.
  • Strong ownership of PagerDuty’s reliability patterns and practices. Bar raiser for all engineering functions. 
  • Lead, mentor, and scale a diverse team of Engineering Managers, Senior Managers, and technical leaders across multiple geographies.
  • Ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of PagerDuty’s global SaaS platform.
  • Partner with peers in Engineering, Product, and Security to deliver large cross-functional initiatives.
  • Champion engineering excellence: CI/CD maturity, observability best practices, operational rigor, and incident readiness.
  • Manage budgets, headcount, and vendor relationships to optimize infrastructure investments.
  • Represent Infrastructure externally with customers and partners, and internally with executives, as a trusted voice on technical and business tradeoffs.
  • Foster a culture of inclusion, accountability, collaboration, and growth.

Basic Requirements

  • Proven experience in senior engineering leadership roles, managing multiple layers of managers.
  • Significant experience as a hands-on technical contributor earlier in your career.
  • Deep knowledge of modern infrastructure and software delivery: high availability, distributed systems, public cloud (AWS), microservices, containers, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and automation.
  • Track record of building and scaling high-performing, inclusive engineering organizations.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Deep experience designing, operating, and scaling large-scale SaaS platforms on AWS (or other public clouds).
  • Familiarity with core AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.) and cloud-native patterns such as multi-tenancy, container orchestration, infrastructure as code, observability, and incident response.
  • Proven ability to manage cloud costs, contracts, and vendor relationships to optimize spend and efficiency.
  • Awareness of compliance and security frameworks relevant to SaaS companies (FedRAMP, SOC2, ISO 27001) and how AWS services map to them.
  • Prior experience leading Infrastructure or Platform Engineering groups in a SaaS company.
  • Experience running or partnering closely with SRE teams in a DevOps/on-call environment.
  • Experience leading globally distributed teams across multiple time zones.
  • Excellent communication skills—comfortable engaging executives, customers, and engineers alike, with bonus points for public speaking experience.
  • Track record of coaching and mentoring engineering leaders across both management and technical career paths.
  • Demonstrated ability to balance strategic vision with operational execution and tough prioritization decisions.
  • Strong business acumen and comfort in customer-facing discussions about technical capabilities, reliability, and roadmap.
  • A passion for building collaborative, inclusive engineering teams and cultures.

PagerDuty is a flexible, hybrid workplace. We embrace and encourage in-person working as an integral part of our culture. Both our employees and external research tells us that co-located collaboration strengthens connections, drives innovation, and accelerates learning.

This role is expected to come into our San Francisco office 2 days per week, so you can thrive in your new role and fully embrace being a Dutonian!

The base salary range for this position is 233,000 - 392,000 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, commission, equity, and/or benefits.

Our base salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range, which is subject to change based on primary work location, reflects the minimum and maximum base salary we expect to pay newly hired employees for the position. Within the range, we determine pay for an individual based on a number of factors including market location, job-related knowledge, skills/competencies and experience.

Your recruiter can share more about the specific offerings for this role, as well as the salary range for your primary work location during the hiring process.

 

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Where we work

PagerDuty operates a hybrid work model with offices in 8 major cities: Atlanta, Lisbon, London, San Francisco, Santiago, Sydney, Tokyo, and Toronto. While we offer flexibility within our established locations, we cannot employ candidates residing in:

Location restrictions:
Australia: Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia
Canada: Alberta, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, PEI, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon
United States: Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming
Candidates must reside in an eligible location, which vary by role.

How we work

Our values guide how we support customers, collaborate with colleagues, develop products, and foster a culture of belonging. They define not just our actions, but what it means to be Dutonian.

People Leaders at PagerDuty are responsible for creating high performance environments that drive accountability. PagerDuty has four key dimensions that define our Leadership Impact: Lead Self, Lead the Team, Lead the Business, and Lead the Future. Each dimension has three associated competencies to give leaders a shared language for guiding their development, career, promotion, and succession planning discussions. Our Manager Expectations serve as a practical guide for managers to understand their responsibilities, prioritize their efforts, and drive engagement and performance.

What we offer

As a global organization, our total rewards approach is competitive with industry standards and aligned with local laws and regulations. Learn more, including country-specific offerings, on our benefits site.

Your package may include:

  • Competitive salary
  • Comprehensive benefits package 
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Company equity*
  • ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Program)*
  • Retirement or pension plan*
  • Generous paid vacation time
  • Paid holidays and sick leave
  • Dutonian Wellness Days & HibernationDuty - companywide paid days off in addition to PTO
  • Paid parental leave: 22 weeks for pregnant parent, 12 weeks for non-pregnant parent (some countries have longer leave standards and we comply with local laws)*
  • Paid volunteer time off: 20 hours per year
  • Company-wide hack weeks
  • Mental wellness programs

*Eligibility may vary by role, region, and tenure

About PagerDuty

PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a global leader in digital operations management. The PagerDuty Operations Cloud is an AI-powered platform that empowers business resilience and drives operational efficiency for enterprises. With a generative AI assistant at its core, PagerDuty empowers teams to detect and resolve issues in real time, orchestrate complex workflows, and drive continuous improvement across their digital operations. Trusted by nearly half of both the Fortune 500 and the Forbes AI 50, as well as approximately two-thirds of the Fortune 100, PagerDuty is essential for delivering always-on digital experiences to modern businesses

PagerDuty is Great Place to Work-certified™, a Fortune Best Workplace for Millennials, a Fortune Best Medium Workplace, a Fortune Best Workplace in Technology, and a top rated product on TrustRadius and G2. 

Go behind-the-scenes on our careers site and @pagerduty on Instagram.

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PagerDuty is an equal opportunity employer. PagerDuty does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, parental status, veteran status, or disability status. Your privacy is important to us. By submitting an application, you confirm that you have read and understand PagerDuty's Privacy Policy.

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