Senior Director, Platform Engineering

About the role

The Opportunity at Altana

Altana is the network for trusted trade. Our AI-powered product network empowers governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing.

Key areas under your stewardship

• Cloud Engineering
• Developer Experience
• Site Reliability
• DevOps / Release Engineering

Your Responsibilities

• Technical Strategy & Execution
• Define and own a clear, multi-year technical strategy for Platform Engineering
• Set the reference architecture and standards for cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and developer tooling
• Make and guide key decisions on scalability, performance, security, and cost
• Lead build-vs-buy and platform investment decisions
• Developer Experience & Acceleration
• Own the Developer Acceleration program
• Drive an AI-first, agent-first transformation of the software development lifecycle
• Set strategy for integrating AI-assisted development tools and agentic coding harnesses into CI/CD, code review, local development, and release pipelines at scale
• Treat the engineering organization as your customer
• Evolve our monorepo strategy
• Operational Excellence
• Establish and continuously improve best practices for monitoring, incident response, automation, and performance optimization
• Drive a culture of ownership, resilience, and accountability
• Own reliability and cost across cloud infrastructure
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
• Partner across product, engineering, security, data science, and commercial teams
• Communicate trade-offs, constraints, and roadmap clearly
• Manage relationships with external vendors and partners
• Team Leadership & Development
• Lead, coach, and inspire a multidisciplinary organization
• Manage distributed teams
• Recruit top-tier talent

About You

• Experience building, leading, and scaling best-in-class platform and/or developer experience organizations
• Significant time spent owning developer experience, platform engineering, or the build/test/release pipeline end to end
• A proven track record of driving developer experience and developer productivity
• Direct, hands-on experience with AI-assisted and agentic development
• Deep expertise with CI/CD systems and a demonstrated ability to scale them
• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Production experience with cloud platforms, containerization, and infrastructure as code
• A track record tackling large-scale infrastructure in support of fast-paced ML/AI-enabled products and services

US Salary Range and Benefits

$295,000 - $345,000 USD