Director Dev Ops & QA Engineering
Job Description

We are seeking an experienced engineering leader to build and lead our Quality Engineering and DevOps functions at Butterfly Network. This is a high-impact role sitting at the intersection of reliability, velocity, and quality - responsible for ensuring our software and infrastructure meet the rigorous standards required of a regulated medical device company. As Director, you will own both the QA and DevOps disciplines end-to-end: setting the strategy for test automation, CI/CD pipelines, release processes, infrastructure reliability, and developer experience. You will lead a distributed team spanning onshore and offshore engineers, partnering closely with product engineering, security, and regulatory teams to ship fast without sacrificing quality or compliance. As part of our team, your core responsibilities will

• Lead, grow, and inspire a high-performing team of QA and DevOps engineers spanning onshore and offshore - building a culture of ownership, craft, and continuous improvement.
• Define and execute the strategy for quality engineering across the organization - automated testing frameworks, test coverage standards, regression pipelines, and quality metrics.
• Own the DevOps and platform engineering roadmap - CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation, cloud cost optimization, and developer tooling.
• Partner with engineering leadership to establish release management processes that support high-velocity delivery while maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements (HIPAA, FDA, SOC 2).
• Drive observability and site reliability engineering (SRE) practices - on-call processes, incident response, runbooks, SLAs/SLOs, and post-mortems. Recruit, retain, and develop top QA and DevOps talent; build a team that other engineers love working with.
• Establish clear quality gates across the SDLC - from PR review through production - reducing defect escape rates and improving release confidence.
• Champion a security-first mindset, ensuring infrastructure and release processes meet security and compliance standards.
• Serve as a cross-functional partner to product engineering, regulatory, IT, and security teams to align on standards and unblock delivery

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, QA, DevOps, or platform engineering, with at least 3 to 5 years in an engineering management or senior technical leadership role.
• Proven experience leading both QA and DevOps/platform functions - either combined or separately - with a track record of building high-performing teams. Demonstrated success managing distributed teams, including offshore or nearshore engineers across multiple time zones.
• Deep expertise in CI/CD pipeline design and implementation, release automation, and developer experience tooling.
• Strong background in test strategy and automation - familiarity with frameworks for unit, integration, end-to-end, and performance testing.
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), containerization (Docker, ECS, EKS), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CDK, or equivalent).
• Experience working in regulated environments (HIPAA, SOC 2, FDA, or similar) with an understanding of compliance requirements for software and infrastructure.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; comfortable operating at the director level and presenting to senior leadership.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Ideally, you also have these skills/experiences/attributes (but it's ok if you don't!):

• Experience in health tech, medical devices, or other regulated industries
• Familiarity with SRE principles and practices - SLOs, error budgets, chaos engineering
• Experience with observability tooling (Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, or equivalent)
• Knowledge of security tooling - SAST, DAST, dependency scanning integrated into CI/CD
• Experience with mobile QA (iOS/Android) in addition to web and API testing
• Containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, ECS, EKS Opensearch or other Lucene-based search engines HIPAA, PHI, and PII compliance

Values

Innovation is what we do. Our values are how we make it happen. Butterflies are and believe in...

• Patient-Centric Innovators: Our mission is THE mission.
• Empowered to Impact: Every voice matters.
• One Team, One Goal: Unity fuels progress.
• Growth Champions: We embrace challenges.
• Action-Oriented Achievers: We follow through, every time.

Location

Butterfly offers a hybrid work model for most positions, with team members spending two or more days a week in the office. While flexibility is key, we value in-person connections that spark creativity and teamwork. Our offices are designed for collaboration, with comfortable workspaces, stocked kitchens, and opportunities to connect with peers.

Our preference for this role is that this is a hybrid position and will be based out of our office in New York City, NY.
Benefits and Perks

• Comprehensive health insurance, encompassing dental and vision coverage, is provided to all our employees. As a health-tech company, we prioritize the well-being of our teams. We also contribute to Health Savings Account (HSA) accounts for all enrolled employees on an annual basis.
• Comprehensive Employee Assistance Program - we provide access to tools and resources to support your emotional health and day-to-day needs.
• 401k plan and match - we facilitate your retirement goals.
• Eligible employees will have the opportunity to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Unlimited Paid Time Off + 10 Holiday Days a Year - recharge and come back ready to make an impact
• Parental Leave - we aim to provide our employees with time to bond with their growing family, along with additional support for primary caregivers to help transition back to work
• Competitive salaried compensation - we value our employees and show it
• Equity - we want every employee to be a stakeholder
• The opportunity to build a revolutionary healthcare product and save millions of lives!

Compensation

Our estimated salary for this role is around $250,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Actual pay is determined by multiple factors such as skills, qualifications, experience and market demand.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. Butterfly Network will not provide immigration sponsorship of any kind for this position, including but not limited to H-1B, TN, O-1, L-1, or green card sponsorship (this includes applicants that are in the process of obtaining a greencard), now or in the future.

Butterfly Network does not accept agency resumes.

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