VP of Engineering

Join Dash0 and help us define the future of observability. We are OpenTelemetry-native, building a delightful, simple, and AI-centric platform that eliminates vendor lock-in and meaningless toil. Shape a product that developers love—all with transparent pricing and cost-control built in.

We're looking for a VP of Engineering to lead and scale our engineering organization. Reporting to the CTO, you'll be responsible for our Directors of Engineering, Engineering Managers, and the teams they lead. This is a cross-cutting leadership role spanning all of engineering.

This is a leadership-focused position. While deep technical expertise is essential for engaging with staff engineers and technical decision-making, the role emphasizes people leadership, organizational design, and delivery excellence over hands-on contribution.

• Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed engineering organization across Europe

• Partner with the CTO, Head of Platform, and other leaders to align engineering efforts with company strategy

• Collaborate closely with Product to ensure alignment on priorities, timelines, and delivery

• Scale the team thoughtfully: Hiring, onboarding, and developing engineering talent

• Establish and refine engineering processes that support a growing organization without creating unnecessary overhead

• Bring structure and clarity to task tracking, planning, and delivery mechanisms

• Continuously improve delivery velocity and predictability across teams

• Foster a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in a remote-first environment

• Significant experience leading engineering organizations of similar or larger scale

• A track record of scaling teams and establishing effective processes during growth phases

• Solid experience partnering with Product organizations—keeping projects on track and maintaining strong cross-functional alignment

• Strong experience in the developer tooling space (observability experience is a plus)

• Deep technical background: You can engage with staff engineers on architecture and technical trade-offs as a peer (our stack includes OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Kafka, and Kubernetes)

• Experience with structured delivery practices and the judgment to apply them pragmatically

• Excellent communication and the ability to build trust across a distributed, remote team

• Based in Europe with the ability to collaborate across European time zones

• Competitive salary

• Equity participation

• Collaborative and supportive team culture