Director of Technology

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November 21

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Kano

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B2B • Hardware • Office Supplies

Kano is a cutting-edge brand company with an international vision, specializing in providing professional overall office space solutions, including desks, tables, chairs, sofas, and storage solutions. The company aims to enhance the functionality and aesthetics of workplace environments through innovative designs and comprehensive planning.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2007

🤝 B2B

🔧 Hardware

📋 Description

• Drive Technical Excellence: Define and drive a studio‑wide program for quality, performance, and continuous improvement. Establish performance budgets, prevent regressions with automated checks, and improve DORA delivery metrics. • Lead Security and Privacy: Be the accountable owner for Security and Privacy. Keep us up to date and ahead of Platform Security requirements. • Manage Operations and Reliability: Lead the Operations team. Set Service Level Objectives with error budgets, design graceful degradation and failover, define on‑call and runbooks, and drive post‑incident reviews that deliver durable fixes. • Build Observability and Error Monitoring: Standardize logs, metrics, traces, and real‑time error and crash reporting across backend and clients. Create actionable, SLO‑based alerting and executive health dashboards. • Improve Developer Productivity and the Software Development Lifecycle: Level up CI/CD, branching strategy, and change control. Add quality gates, static analysis, secret scanning, SBOM and dependency management, and supply chain controls. • Drive FinOps: Own cloud budgets and forecasts. Improve commitment coverage, right‑size compute and storage. Report monthly on cost versus performance. • Lead Incidents and Risk: Act as incident commander for high‑severity issues. Run table‑tops, keep risks tracked with owners and dates, and prevent recurrences. • Mentor and Develop Leaders: Coach Tech Leads and senior ICs. Set expectations for design docs, code reviews, and outcomes. Build a culture of clear ownership and a bias toward delivering. • Partner Cross‑Functionally: Work with Product, Legal, Finance, and Player Success to align technical plans with business goals and regulatory needs. • Leverage AI as a force multiplier: Use AI to accelerate development and operations (code assist, test generation, incident triage, analytics). • Own SRED: Create an auditable process with eligibility gates in Jira, contemporaneous notes, and artifact capture. Partner with Finance for accurate, on‑time claims.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in software engineering with 3+ years as a principal‑level platform/architecture leader • Proven experience operating high‑availability, high‑throughput consumer systems • Strong AWS background (IAM, VPC, EC2/ECS/Fargate, S3, KMS, GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail, Config) • Infrastructure‑as‑code proficiency (Terraform or CDK) and CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions or equivalent) • Security and privacy ownership in platform‑reviewed environments • SRE and performance engineering expertise (SLOs, incident management, load/perf testing, graceful degradation) • Data architecture across relational and non‑relational systems • Observability stack experience (Graylog, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana or Datadog, ELK or OpenSearch; Sentry/Crashlytics, Backtrace or equivalent) • Production experience applying AI to speed development and operations • Clear communicator who influences across product, engineering, legal, and finance.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive wages determined by market research • Uncapped profit share program • Health, dental and vision benefits • 3 weeks vacation to start • Paid holiday shutdown in December • 12 paid Care Days per year • Yearly Continuous Improvement allowance • A results-driven company with a compassionate culture • Opportunity to work on game projects that are enjoyed by millions of players worldwide! • Ability to make a difference. Have an idea? Talk directly with leadership about it instead of running through layers of bureaucracy