Director of Engineering, Infrastructure & Platform
About the Role
You will own the vision, strategy, and execution for platform infrastructure, guiding long-term technical direction and influencing architecture for large-scale distributed systems. You will lead multiple engineering teams, partner with Product and cross-functional leaders, drive predictable delivery, mentor engineering leaders, and prioritize reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in distributed systems
- 5+ years of engineering leadership experience managing managers and orgs responsible for critical production infrastructure
- Hands-on understanding of large-scale distributed systems and cloud infrastructure
- Experience with Java, Kubernetes, AWS, multi-region, and multi-cloud environments
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to operate with ambiguity
Responsibilities
- Lead and scale engineering teams across cloud infrastructure, platform, data platform, and internal tooling
- Define and own platform and infrastructure strategy to ensure scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
- Serve as a senior technical leader influencing architecture and systems design for large-scale distributed systems
- Partner with Product, Security, Finance, and executive leadership to align platform investments with company goals
- Drive execution excellence by evolving processes, setting priorities, and ensuring predictable delivery
- Stay ahead of emerging technologies and translate trends into actionable technical strategy
- Build, mentor, and retain engineering leaders and ICs through coaching and standards
- Own hiring strategy and workforce planning for the organization
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401k
- Unlimited flexible time off