Director of Engineering, Internal Platform

About the role

The Director of Engineering at Clio is a senior leadership position responsible for building and maintaining a highly secure, available, and performant internal platform. This role will empower all Clions to securely build tooling and engage with Large Language Models (LLMs), unlocking their velocity. The ideal candidate will collaborate organization-wide to transform core systems or processes and "lead from the front" by directly implementing, triaging, and solving problems.

Responsibilities

• Author, review, and ship both code and infrastructure-as-code to create and maintain Clio’s internal platform.
• Analyze Clio's platform use cases, strengths, weaknesses, and infrastructure gaps to deliver impactful solutions that elevate operational excellence.
• Work with senior leadership across the organization to evolve our internal strategy for LLM use and build the necessary guardrails and observability to empower it.
• Directly supervise, mentor, and collaborate with engineering managers and individual contributors who are in the thick of it every day.
• Partner with Clions and our internal tooling teams to support them in ensuring all of our internal tools meet a high bar for security, performance, reliability, availability and change velocity.
• Train and advocate for the responsible use of the internal platform across Clio.
• Work closely with the recruiting/people team to actively recruit and hire top talent to support Clio’s ambitious growth plans for our infrastructure and development teams.

Requirements

Experienced senior engineering leader who is still comfortable pushing code.
Eager adopter of LLM tooling and experienced user of frontier models and related technologies (MCP, agentic harnesses, agent guardrails).
Experienced at managing across and up the organization as you define, communicate, and champion a long-term strategic roadmap for our internal platform to unlock organizational velocity and scale.
Adept at managing and mentoring high-performing teams, nurturing talent, and guiding individuals toward professional growth and development.
Proven track record of maintaining services and systems.
Experienced in crafting long-term strategies and managing technical roadmaps that pave the way for future growth.
Capable of running agile organizations at scale and with a sense of urgency to deliver quality software to solve customer problems.
Demonstrated experience in promoting positive culture and diversity throughout a large engineering organization.

Qualifications

Experience in leading engineering teams and driving technical strategy.
Strong understanding of cloud platforms and infrastructure.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools.
Knowledge of data management and analytics.
Ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive technical initiatives.

Skills

• Leadership and management skills
• Technical expertise in cloud platforms and infrastructure
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools
• Understanding of data management and analytics
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive technical initiatives

Benefits

Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits, dental, and vision insurance
Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin and Sydney) to be in office minimum twice per week.
$2000 annual counseling benefit
RRA matching and RESP contribution
Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years

Pay

The expected salary range* for this role is $214,400 to $321,600 CAD. There are a separate set of salary bands for other regions based on local currency. The final offer amount for this role will be dependent on geographical region, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.

Schedule

Clio offers a hybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin and Sydney) to be in office minimum twice per week.