Responsibilities

The Dev leader leads the engineering delivery function of the Octave AI platform team — owning the processes, culture, and people management that allow a multi-disciplinary team of engineers to ship reliably and grow professionally. This role sits at the intersection of technical team and people management: credible enough with engineers across all disciplines to earn their trust, and structured enough to keep delivery predictable in a fast-moving, greenfield platform context. The person should be hands-on, deeply engaged with the work and responsible for removing the obstacles that slow it down.

• Leads a cross-functional team of engineers spanning agent engineering, data engineering, graph engineering, infrastructure, UI, and QA
• Own engineering delivery health: sprint/cycle planning, dependency management, velocity tracking, and escalation of blockers that cross team boundaries
• Establish and maintain engineering culture standards: code review practices, definition of done, documentation expectations, incident response, and on-call rotation design
• Own the engineering operating rhythm — standups, retrospectives, planning cadences, and the feedback loops between QA findings and engineering priorities
• Partner with the Eval & Telemetry function to ensure quality signals from production reach the engineering team and drive improvement cycles
• Serve as the escalation point for technical delivery issues, cross-team dependency conflicts, and process breakdowns — resolving or escalating to the appropriate TPM lead
• Represent engineering delivery in platform leadership conversations — providing honest, grounded assessments of what is achievable, when, and at what quality

Education / Qualifications

• 8–12 years of overall experience, including 5+ years in software engineering and at least 2 years in technical lead role with direct people-management responsibilities.
• Track record of managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams (backend, data, infrastructure, QA) in a platform or product engineering context
• Strong enough technical depth to engage substantively with engineers across agent, data, graph, and infrastructure disciplines — credible without being prescriptive
• Demonstrated ability to manage delivery in a greenfield, fast-moving context — setting up process without over-engineering it
• Experience working with AI/ML engineering teams and understanding the unique delivery challenges of non-deterministic systems (evaluation, iteration cycles, model dependency)
• Strong written communication — able to produce clear status updates, risk escalations, and process documentation
• Experience partnering with product/program management (TPM) leadership on roadmap planning and priority tradeoffs

NICE TO HAVE

• Prior experience in a platform engineering organization (infrastructure, developer tooling, or shared services)
• Familiarity with capital project delivery, industrial software, or EPC domain contexts
• Experience managing teams across geographies or time zones
• Background in quality engineering or experience building QA capability from scratch

About Octave

Octave provides mission-critical software that empowers organizations to make informed decisions across every stage of the asset lifecycle - Design, Build, Operate and Protect - where performance, safety, and reliability are non-negotiable and failure is not an option.

Turning complex operational data into actionable intelligence, Octave connects expertise, real-world conditions and enterprise-scale insight to improve performance, resilience and incident response where it matters most.

Octave has more than 7,000 employees in 45 countries. Learn more at octave.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Why work for Octave?

All in. Always forward. That's the way we do things around here. We put trust in our people because we believe it's the best way to unleash potential, bring ideas to life, and keep moving ahead. And it's why we're committed to creating an environment that's truly supportive, providing you with the resources you need to support your ambitions, no matter who you are or where you are in the world.

Everyone is welcome

At Octave, we believe that diverse and inclusive teams are critical to the success of our people and our business. Here, everyone is welcome. As an inclusive workplace, we don't discriminate. In fact, we embrace differences and are fully committed to creating equal opportunities, an inclusive environment, and fairness for all. 

Respect is the cornerstone of how we operate, so speak up and be yourself. You're valued here.