Director of Engineering, Infrastructure & Platform

What You'll Do

• Lead and scale multiple engineering teams across Cloud Infrastructure, Platform, Data Platform, and Internal Tooling, including distributed and international teams.
• Define and own the platform and infrastructure strategy, ensuring scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across the organization.
• Serve as a senior technical leader, influencing architecture and systems design for large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems.
• Partner with Product, Security, Finance, and Executive Leadership to align platform investments with company goals and customer needs.
• Drive execution excellence by evolving processes, setting clear priorities, and ensuring predictable delivery as the organization scales.
• Stay ahead of emerging technologies and ecosystem trends (Web3, cloud infrastructure, AI) and translate them into actionable technical strategy.
• Build, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering leaders and ICs; provide coaching that raises the technical bar across teams.
• Own hiring strategy and workforce planning for the org, recruiting top-tier talent and developing future leaders.
• Shape and strengthen engineering culture through standards, mentorship, and programs that promote continuous learning and innovation.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise in distributed systems.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing managers and leading orgs responsible for critical production infrastructure at high-growth startup.
• Strong hands-on understanding of large-scale distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with Java, Kubernetes, AWS, multi-region, multi-cloud is strongly preferred.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• Exceptional judgment and decision-making skills, especially when balancing speed, quality, and long-term technical health.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and engage with the open-source community.
• Strong ownership mindset; comfortable operating with ambiguity and driving initiatives end-to-end.
• Ability to balance perfection with pragmatism and ship impactful solutions quickly.
• Passion for building platforms that enable others and curiosity about emerging technologies—crypto, AI, and complex systems.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base salary and equity.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Other benefits such as 401k and unlimited flexible time off.