Engineering Head - AI Platform
First seen by Alion on Sep 29, 2026.
About the Role :
Dream11 is looking for a Head of Engineering to lead the development and scaling of an AI-first sports fan engagement platform serving a massive and growing user base.
This is a senior engineering leadership role focused on building highly scalable technology, enabling engineering autonomy across the organization, and leading teams and infrastructure capable of supporting hyper-growth.
Key Responsibilities :
- Build and scale an AI-first sports fan engagement platform for 250M+ existing fans and a growing user base.
- Enable Dream11 teams to independently build and launch features by providing the right engineering tools, platforms, and developer capabilities.
- Scale the new AI platform to support 100M+ active users annually.
- Own and evolve a lean, reliable, and highly scalable infrastructure capable of supporting 10M+ concurrent users.
- Drive engineering strategy and execution for high-scale, consumer-facing products.
- Lead engineering teams and foster a culture of ownership, autonomy, reliability, and rapid execution.
- Ensure systems are designed for high availability, scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Drive adoption and effective use of AI across engineering and product development.
Qualifiers :
- 10+ years of engineering experience in highly scaled technology companies or hyper-growth startups.
- 5+ years of experience leading mid-to-large engineering teams.
- Proven experience building and operating high-scale consumer technology platforms.
- Strong understanding of large-scale distributed systems, infrastructure, scalability, and reliability.
- Strong interest and hands-on adoption of AI tools and technologies.
- Must be a power AI user, both personally and professionally.
- Strong engineering leadership, strategic thinking, and execution capabilities.
What We're Looking For :
We are looking for an engineering leader who combines deep technical understanding with strong people and organizational leadership and is comfortable operating in a high-scale, fast-paced technology environment.
The ideal candidate should be capable of thinking at both the platform - infrastructure level and engineering-organization level, while driving AI-first innovation and enabling teams to ship quickly and independently.
Total Experience : 10-20 years
Skills
CTO, Distributed Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, System Scalability, AI Tools, Generative AI, AI Infrastructure