Director of Platform Engineering

Responsibilities

• Own the developer experience across tooling, AI integration, CI/CD, and governance
• Drive adoption of AI-native SDLC practices and improve engineering velocity
• Lead architecture for shared infrastructure, observability, deployment, and APIs
• Build and lead the Platform Engineering team
• Develop talent and foster a culture of reliability, automation, and craftsmanship
• Represent Platform Engineering across Product, IT, and executive leadership
• Partner with engineering leadership on long-term technology strategy
• Evaluate and implement tools and practices to improve productivity
• Drive AI engineering transformation, including AI-assisted development and testing
• Advises on platform strategy, architecture, and technical diligence

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE leadership roles
• Demonstrated experience building or scaling a platform engineering function, from establishing standards through growing a team
• Strong command of cloud infrastructure (AWS primary, GCP secondary), CI/CD pipelines, and modern deployment practices
• Hands-on experience with observability tooling (DataDog, CloudWatch, PagerDuty, or equivalent)
• Experience leading and developing engineering teams — hiring, mentoring, and setting technical direction
• Strong communicator who is comfortable translating platform strategy for non-technical audiences and making the case for investment
• Proven track record of shipping: you hold teams accountable for delivery and know how to unblock them

Nice to Have

• Experience at a PE-backed or high-growth SaaS company
• Familiarity with multi-product or multi-brand engineering environments
• Hands-on experience with AI-native development tooling, agentic SDLC, or AI-assisted engineering workflows
• Background in or familiarity with wealth management, financial services, or regulated industry software
• Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol), API platform design, or developer platform strategy
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Terraform or IaC tooling, and container orchestration (ECS, EKS)
• Experience running or contributing to an engineering M&A integration