Head of Engineering - Distributed Systems

Description :

We're mandated to hire for a climate-tech startup reimagining water infrastructure using IoT, edge computing, and machine learning. We operate at the intersection of hardware, data, and distributed systems, solving real-world challenges in water management at scale.

We are looking for a Head of Engineering to own and drive the complete engineering vision - from device-level intelligence to cloud platforms and ML-driven decision systems.

What Youll Own :

- Build scalable data platforms and real-time pipelines for high-frequency telemetry

- Design systems that are resilient to low-connectivity, noisy data, and field constraints

- Drive ML adoption in production, including monitoring, feedback loops, and continuous improvement

- Establish strong engineering practices across system design, reliability, and scalability

- Hire, mentor, and scale a high-caliber engineering team

What Were Looking For :

- Strong foundation in distributed systems, system design, and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure)

- Experience working on IoT / edge / hardware-integrated platforms OR real-world distributed systems (logistics, mobility, infra-tech)

- Hands-on experience with data engineering / streaming systems (Kafka, Spark, etc.)

- Exposure to ML systems in production (not just experimentation)

- Proven track record of leading teams (1030 engineers) and driving architectural decisions

Why This Role is Different :

- Not a typical SaaS role - youll build systems that operate in unstructured, real-world

environments

- Solve a mission-critical problem at scale (water sustainability)

- High ownership across 0?1 and scale-up phases

- Opportunity to define the technology backbone of a category-defining company