Director, Developer Platform & Experience

Responsibilities

AI-Driven Development Lifecycle

• Translate the AI-driven development direction into a multi-year plan covering agent planning, generation, testing, review, operations, human-in-the-loop workflows, and changes to engineers’ work.
• Evaluate and roll out AI developer tools for coding, code review, test generation, incident investigation, and documentation.
• Build internal scaffolding, including context systems, MCP servers, evaluations, and guardrails, for use on production codebases.
• Establish LLM and agent evaluation practices with benchmarks, offline and online evaluations, quality and cost regression tracking, and model and vendor selection.
• Own governance covering acceptable use, code provenance and licensing, secrets and data handling, and audit trails for AI-generated changes.
• Define adoption and impact metrics and drive enablement and organizational adoption.

Cloud-Based Agentic Development Infrastructure

• Build and own reproducible, isolated, on-demand cloud workspaces provisioned per task.
• Design sandboxed execution, least-privilege credentials, network egress controls, and blast-radius limits.
• Improve speed and cost through warm environment pools, caching, snapshotting, incremental builds, and test selection.
• Own orchestration and control-plane capabilities, including queueing, scheduling, Kubernetes autoscaling, session lifecycle, artifact and log retention, and observability.
• Instrument per-task and per-agent cost, establish budgets and quotas, and maintain platform sustainability.
• Build interfaces for dispatching work to cloud agents, monitoring runs, reviewing and merging results, and intervening in failed runs.
• Design multi-region capabilities for the US and EU while honoring data residency and code-egress constraints.

Developer Experience and Infrastructure

• Own local and cloud development environments, code search and navigation, IDE and agent tooling, dependency management, and onboarding time-to-first-PR.
• Conduct developer experience research through surveys, interviews, and telemetry, and maintain a visible prioritized backlog.
• Define and drive the internal developer platform, including golden paths, service scaffolding, and self-service capabilities.
• Own build systems, CI/CD, artifact and release pipelines, and the platform outer loop across Rails, Go, mobile, and embedded/firmware codebases.
• Improve DORA and velocity metrics, including PR lead time, build and CI duration, CI reliability, flake rate, change failure rate, and time to restore.
• Make platform cost, scale, and reliability first-class concerns, including multi-region behavior and configuration flexibility.

Testing and Quality Engineering

• Own testing strategy and frameworks across unit, integration, contract, end-to-end, hardware-in-the-loop, and performance testing.
• Build infrastructure for fixtures, factories, test data management, environment provisioning, parallelization, and flake detection and quarantine.
• Partner with quality and release engineering to shift quality left without slowing teams.

Leadership

• Lead a multi-team organization as a manager of managers, hiring and developing engineering managers and senior/staff-plus ICs.
• Lead distributed teams across North American and Asian time zones with effective handoffs, overlap hours, fair on-call practices, and inclusion.
• Partner with product and infrastructure leaders, influence engineering broadly, and communicate strategy and results to executives.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience and 6+ years leading engineering teams, including 2+ years as a manager of managers.
• Production software development and operations experience with strong technical judgment.
• Deep experience with CI/CD, build systems, containers, Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud platforms, and observability.
• Ownership of developer productivity, developer platforms, or developer infrastructure at meaningful scale with measurable velocity outcomes.
• Hands-on experience with modern AI developer tooling and a well-reasoned perspective on agentic development.
• Experience operating cloud-based development or execution environments, including security and cost controls.
• Practical experience evaluating LLMs and agents for coding tasks, quality, and cost.
• Strong developer empathy and experience leading distributed, multi-time-zone teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with large monolith modernization and polyglot environments including Ruby on Rails, Go, mobile, and embedded systems.
• Test infrastructure experience at scale, including flake reduction, test selection, parallelization, and hermetic environments.
• Experience running platform work as a product with roadmaps, adoption funnels, internal customers, and feature-flagged rollouts.
• Familiarity with multi-region deployment and US/EU data residency constraints.
• Open source contributions, developer community involvement, or public writing about developer productivity or AI-assisted engineering.

Compensation and Benefits

• United States compensation range: $229,000–$285,000 USD.
• Total compensation may include restricted stock units.
• Benefits may include health, pharmacy, optical and dental coverage, paid time off, sick time off, short- and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, and 401(k) contributions, subject to eligibility requirements.