Cornerstone OnDemand
Senior Director, Engineering
🇺🇸 Hybrid - Dublin, CA
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $207K - $331K
💻 Software Engineering
🗓️ August 6th, 2025
CI/CD
MySQL
Python
Edtech.com's Summary
Cornerstone OnDemand is hiring a Senior Director, Engineering to lead their global Cloud & Automation team. The role focuses on modernizing their SaaS platform by driving cloud infrastructure strategy, automating CI/CD pipelines, and transforming legacy systems into scalable, cloud-native architectures while building and mentoring diverse engineering teams.
Highlights
- Lead strategy and execution for cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and CI/CD automation in AWS and GCP environments.
- Drive modernization of legacy monolithic applications into service-based and cloud-native systems.
- Provide technical leadership in Java, .NET, Python, Groovy, and object-oriented programming.
- Define engineering best practices, coding standards, and agile delivery models.
- Build, mentor, and scale hybrid engineering teams across multiple geographies.
- Own architecture and delivery of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitOps, Terraform, and AWS CloudFormation.
- Support RDBMS technologies such as SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL in distributed cloud environments.
- Require 10–15+ years of software/cloud engineering experience with 5+ years leading large teams and engineering managers.
- Must have deep hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, and CloudWatch.
- Compensation range: $206,900 to $331,000 USD base salary, plus bonuses and benefits.
Senior Director, Engineering Full Description
Senior Director, Engineering
Dublin, CA, United States
We're looking for a
Senior Director, Engineering
This role is Hybrid, Dublin, CA Office
Cornerstone OnDemand is seeking a hands-on and strategic Senior Director of Cloud Engineering to lead our global Cloud & Automation team. As a key member of the Engineering leadership team, you will drive the modernization of our SaaS platform, delivering intelligent automation, AI-powered observability, and highly scalable infrastructure across AWS and GCP. You’ll lead the transformation of legacy monolithic systems into modern, service-based architectures while building a high-performing, diverse engineering team. This role requires strong technical expertise, people leadership, and the ability to influence across teams in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
In this role you will…
Cornerstone OnDemand is seeking a hands-on and strategic Senior Director of Cloud Engineering to lead our global Cloud & Automation team. As a key member of the Engineering leadership team, you will drive the modernization of our SaaS platform, delivering intelligent automation, AI-powered observability, and highly scalable infrastructure across AWS and GCP. You’ll lead the transformation of legacy monolithic systems into modern, service-based architectures while building a high-performing, diverse engineering team. This role requires strong technical expertise, people leadership, and the ability to influence across teams in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
In this role you will…
- Lead the strategy and execution of cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and CI/CD automation across hybrid environments (AWS/GCP).
- Drive modernization of legacy applications into scalable, service-based and cloud-native architectures.
- Provide technical leadership in OOP programming using Java, .NET, Python and Groovy.
- Define and enforce engineering best practices, coding standards, design principles, and agile delivery models.
- Build, mentor, and scale hybrid teams of engineers and technical leaders across geographies.
- Collaborate with product, security, and operations teams to deliver highly available, secure, and performant cloud platforms.
- Own the architecture and delivery of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Support RDBMS technologies (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL) and integration in distributed cloud environments.
- Conduct regular 1:1s, support goal setting, unblock team members, and build a culture of technical excellence.
- Act as a point of contact for stakeholders; drive alignment between engineering initiatives and product roadmaps.
You have what it takes if you have…
- 10–15+ years in software/cloud engineering, with 5+ years leading large teams and engineering managers.
- Proven hands-on expertise with AWS, GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation tools.
- Strong programming background in Java, .NET, Python, Groovy, and object-oriented design.
- Deep hands-on experience with key AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudFormation/Terraform.
- Demonstrated experience modernizing monolithic systems into microservices or service-based architectures.
- Hands-on with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation to manage and version infrastructure.
- Ability to design modular, reusable infrastructure components across environments.
- Deep understanding of cloud-native practices, security, and observability tooling.
- Experience with relational databases: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL.
- Strong time management, communication, and cross-functional leadership skills.
- Master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
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Who We Are:
Cornerstone powers the potential of organizations and their people to thrive in a changing world. Cornerstone Galaxy, the complete AI-powered workforce agility platform, meets organizations where they are. With Galaxy, organizations can identify skills gaps and development opportunities, retain and engage top talent, and provide multimodal learning experiences to meet the diverse needs of the modern workforce. More than 7,000 organizations and 100 million+ users in 180+ countries and in nearly 50 languages use Cornerstone Galaxy to build high-performing, future-ready organizations and people today.
Total Rewards:
At Cornerstone, we are dedicated to inspiring excellence and pushing boundaries in everything we do. Our compensation strategy is based on three fundamental principles: equitable pay, market-driven research, and skill-based appraisals. As part of our mission to share success and empower individuals to thrive in an ever-changing world, the listed salary range is just one element of Cornerstone’s comprehensive compensation package. This compensation package may also include annual bonuses, short- and program-specific awards depending on the role, and a comprehensive benefit offering. The disclosed salary range reflects the geographic differential based on the location of the position if applicable. The starting salary for the successful applicant will depend on several job-related factors, including education, training, experience, certifications, location, business needs, and market demands. This range is based on a full-time position and may be adjusted in the future. Join us in shaping the future of work — tomorrow, together. Experience flexibility and empowerment in your career at Cornerstone. The BASE salary range for this position is: 206900 - 331000 USD.
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commitment at Cornerstone OnDemand. All qualified applicants are given consideration regardless of race, religion, color, gender, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class as provided in applicable Federal, State, or Local fair employment laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at careers@csod.com or +1 855 454 8433.
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