Director, Cloud Engineering & Deployment Services

Job Category Software Engineering

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Experience Location

San Francisco, CA or Palo Alto, CA

Role Description

As Director, Cloud Engineering & Deployment Services, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for Tableau’s continuous delivery platforms, cloud deployment services, and production engineering capabilities. Your team will enable secure, scalable, and seamless software releases while providing operational excellence for critical production services. By delivering world-class internal developer platforms, you will empower engineering teams to innovate faster while ensuring exceptional experiences for millions of Tableau customers. By fostering engineering excellence, operational efficiency, and cross‑functional collaboration, you will help accelerate product delivery, improve developer productivity, and enhance customer trust and satisfaction.

What You’ll Actually Be Doing

• Define and execute the technical vision and long‑term roadmap for Tableau’s cloud deployment and engineering platforms.
• Drive adoption of AI-powered engineering and AI-driven operations (AIOps) practices to improve automation, observability, operational efficiency, and developer productivity.
• Lead the evolution of scalable, secure cloud platforms and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) capabilities using platform engineering principles, enabling reliable software delivery and operational excellence.
• Partner with product management and engineering leadership to translate strategic priorities into executable roadmaps that deliver incremental customer value.

You’re Our Person If...

• You have experience building, coaching, and inspiring high-performing engineering teams through servant leadership, accountability, and continuous growth.
• You bring deep technical expertise in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, CI/CD platforms, observability, and modern cloud-native architectures.
• You communicate effectively across teams and leaders, with cross-organizational project experience in a large organization.
• You have 8+ years of industry experience in software as a service (SaaS) or large‑scale systems, leading platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, developer productivity, development and operations (DevOps), or site reliability engineering (SRE) organizations, including 5+ years leading teams of 5+ engineers and 5+ years in a highly operational team with an on-call culture.

Even Better If...

• You know how to translate high-level strategic requirements into smaller stories teams can execute against for iterative development and releases, and can help prioritize bugs, feature work, and architectural enhancements.
• You have strong Agile practices along with an understanding of traditional project management concepts that ensure predictability, transparency, and accountability of deliverables.
• You have experience with public cloud platforms, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD automation, and observability platforms.
• You have a strong eye for talent and enjoy being part of the hiring process to help bring great people onto the team.

Unleash Your Potential

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