Director of Engineering, Platform & DevOps

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a large team organization (tech leads and engineers)
• Define career ladders, succession plans, and healthy on-call practices
• Champion a culture of ownership, inclusion, and continuous improvement
• Own the Platform & DevOps strategy and multi-quarter roadmap
• Align to company goals and product timelines
• Establish org-wide guardrails (golden paths, reference architectures, policy-as-code) enabling autonomy with compliance
• Set technical direction for build/release, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes/EKS runtime, and observability
• Drive cost, performance, and availability improvements
• Lead remediation SLAs with Security
• Publish clear reference architectures, runbooks, and standards
• Communicate priorities, trade-offs, and status to execs and cross-functional partners

Requirements

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience
• 12+ years total experience in Platform/SRE/DevOps/Infrastructure, including 5+ years leading tech leads or multiple teams
• Proven track record delivering secure, reliable, cross-team platforms serving many product squads
• Experience with SOC2 compliance
• Strong Linux, networking, and troubleshooting fundamentals
• Proficiency in Python/Bash; automation around CI/CD, infra, and operations
• Deep AWS experience (EKS/ECS/EC2/RDS/DocumentDB/DynamoDB, IAM, VPC, security groups)
• IaC expertise (Terraform preferred; Pulumi a plus) with sound practices (modularity, versioning, policy checks, drift detection)
• Observability at scale (logs/metrics/traces, alerting design, SLOs) and incident management/command skills
• Security leadership across build/deploy/runtime; RBAC/ABAC and identity standards (OAuth, SAML, OIDC); secrets management
• Executive communication; portfolio management; budget/FinOps ownership

Preferred

• AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional and/or AWS Solutions Architect (Assoc/Pro)
• Experience with data/streaming platforms (e.g., Databricks/Kafka)
• Vendor consolidation and contract negotiation experience

Compensation & Benefits

Tier 2* (all other U.S. Locations outside of Tier 1): $231,000 – $330,000/yr

Offers Bonus

Benefits & Perks:

• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and eligible dependents
• Company-paid life and AD&D, STD and LTD insurance, plus optional supplemental coverage
• 401(k) with company match
• Flexible Time Off (FTO)
• Paid parental leave