Head of Engineering

Company Description

Duckbill - Heavybit-backed Cloud FinOps SaaS

Job Description

As Head of Engineering, you will lead the development of Skyway, a sophisticated platform for cloud financial data. This is a builder-first role where you will ship code daily while scaling an elite engineering team. You will architect systems capable of processing terabytes of complex billing data and manage high-stakes technical decisions.

Why this role is remarkable:

• Rare opportunity to join as a foundational leader at a company that raised $7.75M from Heavybit and Uncork Capital with established product-market fit.
• Significant technical challenge managing near-unbounded data cardinality and recalculating billing models for thousands of cloud providers.
• Leverage an "unfair advantage" with access to the world's largest AWS community and seven years of proprietary customer research.

What you will do:

• Ship production-ready code daily and eliminate architectural bottlenecks to ensure the team maintains high development velocity.
• Recruit and mentor a world-class engineering team, fostering a culture of technical excellence and rapid execution.
• Design and scale data infrastructure using Python, ClickHouse, and Airflow to support a 50x increase in data volume.

The ideal candidate:

• Proven experience building and recruiting high-performing engineering teams as a Director or VP of Engineering.
• Deep expertise in data infrastructure, including large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines and columnar storage solutions.
• Pragmatic "builder" mindset with a preference for shipping working software over long-term planning and corporate bureaucracy.