# Director of Platform Engineering

**Company:** [Illumio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/illumio)
**Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $263k – $315k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, DevOps, Cloud-Native Architecture, SaaS, Platform Engineering, Networking, Security
**Posted:** 2026-06-04

> Lead a team of 10+ engineers building and scaling cloud-native platform services for a cybersecurity SaaS company. Drive architecture decisions, ensure compliance, and deliver enterprise releases while shaping long-term technical strategy.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead the team responsible for the development of platform services
- Define and execute platform engineering initiatives
- Manage the integration of the application with the infrastructure
- Work with leaders across engineering, operations, product management, and other functions to make decisions critical to features, product releases, and the overall evolution of the platform
- Ensure the correctness, scalability, and modularity of the platform architecture and implementation, as well as its compliance with regulatory standards and security best practices
- Grow and develop the top-notch team that delivers these capabilities, partnering with senior technical leads and cross functional leaders
- Define, manage, and enforce milestone gates to ensure feature completeness and release quality while balancing business concerns with release deadlines
- Deliver on-time releases to some of the largest and most demanding enterprise customers
- Play a critical role in product planning, working closely with senior executives to develop business milestones and resource requirements
- Influence long-term technical and business strategy

## Requirements
- Experience with management of 10+ full-time engineers and working globally
- 10+ years in roles of increasing responsibility and technical leadership
- Significant experience building and delivering scalable, cloud-native enterprise SaaS products and services
- Proven track record of taking enterprise software products from inception to customer delivery
- Fluency with modern public cloud infrastructure (particularly AWS and Azure), containerization and orchestration technologies, and DevOps tools and best practices
- Outstanding interpersonal skills, intellectual curiosity, an entrepreneurial spirit, and a passion for bringing a culture of innovation and continuous improvement to product development
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to understand and present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with networking and security
- Experience with developing and supporting enterprise software in regulated environments (e.g. PCI, FedRAMP)

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