Senior Director, Platform Engineering

Key areas under your stewardship

Cloud Engineering

• Design, manage, and secure multi-cloud infrastructure for scalable, flexible, resilient, and cost-performant architectures across commercial and government-compliant deployments
• Manage data platforms supporting large-scale data processing, analytics, and machine learning

Developer Experience

• Own infrastructure and tooling: monorepo, CI/CD platform, build systems, local development environments, and internal tooling
• Drive Developer Acceleration across the engineering organization
• Make AI-first, agent-first development the default way engineers work

Site Reliability

• Ensure systems are reliable, available, performant, and efficient
• Establish and monitor SLOs and error budgets
• Own observability, drive toil reduction, and lead incident management

DevOps / Release Engineering

• Automate and optimize the software delivery lifecycle from commit to deploy
• Build robust CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code

Your Responsibilities

Technical Strategy & Execution

• Define and own a multi-year technical strategy for Platform Engineering
• Set reference architecture and standards for cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and developer tooling
• Make key decisions on scalability, performance, security, and cost
• Lead build-vs-buy and platform investment decisions

Developer Experience & Acceleration

• Own the Developer Acceleration program and drive measurable gains in build times, PR cycle time, flaky-test rate, and deployment frequency (DORA / SPACE)
• Drive AI-first, agent-first transformation of the software development lifecycle
• Set strategy for integrating AI-assisted development tools and agentic coding harnesses (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, agent frameworks) into CI/CD, code review, local development, and release pipelines
• Establish how AI-assisted and agent-generated code is reviewed, tested, secured, and governed
• Evolve monorepo strategy: code organization, dependency management, build caching, and testing patterns

Operational Excellence

• Establish best practices for monitoring, incident response, automation, and performance optimization
• Drive culture of ownership, resilience, and accountability
• Own reliability and cost across cloud infrastructure; conduct post-incident reviews and capacity planning

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner across product, engineering, security, data science, and commercial teams
• Communicate trade-offs, constraints, and roadmap to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Manage relationships with external vendors and cloud/tooling providers

Team Leadership & Development

• Lead, coach, and inspire a multidisciplinary organization of engineers and managers
• Manage distributed teams across multiple time zones
• Recruit top-tier talent and foster professional development

About You

• Experience building, leading, and scaling best-in-class platform and/or developer experience organizations in rapidly scaling environments
• 10+ years developing or managing complex engineering systems with significant time owning developer experience, platform engineering, or build/test/release pipeline end to end
• Proven track record driving developer experience and productivity with concrete before/after outcomes
• Direct, hands-on experience with AI-assisted and agentic development and clear opinions on how they change code review, testing, pipeline design, and org structure
• Deep expertise with CI/CD systems (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and scaling them in a monorepo at scale
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to lead from the front