Director of Platform Engineering

**This position is a direct hire for one of our clients. This is a remote position. Eligible candidates must currently reside in the US and authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.**

Our client is seeking a leader to build the foundation for an AI-native engineering future. As Director of Platform Engineering, you'll shape how their teams design, build, and deliver software-owning the tools, platforms, and standards that power innovation across the organization. This is a high-impact leadership role at the center of technology, strategy, and transformation. Our ideal candidate is a technical leader who has built platform engineering functions from the ground up, operates at the intersection of infrastructure, developer tooling, and reliability

engineering, and is energized by the transition to AI-native software development. You are equally comfortable writing technical strategy for the board and jumping into a CI/CD pipeline to solve a problem.
Responsibilities

Platform Architecture & Developer Experience

• Own the developer experience across tooling, AI integration, CI/CD, and governance
• Set platform standards to improve speed, quality, and consistency
• Drive adoption of AI-native SDLC practices and improve engineering velocity
• Lead architecture for shared infrastructure, observability, deployment, and APIs

Team Leadership

• Build and lead the Platform Engineering team
• Develop talent and foster a culture of reliability, automation, and craftsmanship
• Represent Platform Engineering across Product, IT, and executive leadership
• Partner with engineering leadership on long-term technology strategy

Reliability & Operations

• Own platform reliability, including SLOs, on-call, and incident management
• Define observability and alerting standards across systems
• Align with IT on boundaries between platform, infrastructure, and security

Innovation

• Evaluate and implement tools and practices to improve productivity
• Drive AI engineering transformation, including AI-assisted development and testing
• Advise on platform strategy, architecture, and technical diligence

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE leadership roles
• Demonstrated experience building or scaling a platform engineering function, from establishing standards through growing a team
• Strong command of cloud infrastructure (AWS primary, GCP secondary), CI/CD pipelines, and modern deployment practices
• Hands-on experience with observability tooling (DataDog, CloudWatch, PagerDuty, or equivalent)
• Experience leading and developing engineering teams - hiring, mentoring, and setting technical direction
• Strong communicator who is comfortable translating platform strategy for non-technical audiences and making the case for investment
• Proven track record of shipping: you hold teams accountable for delivery and know how to unblock them

Nice to Haves

• Experience at a PE-backed or high-growth SaaS company
• Familiarity with multi-product or multi-brand engineering environments
• Hands-on experience with AI-native development tooling, agentic SDLC, or AI-assisted engineering workflows
• Background in or familiarity with wealth management, financial services, or regulated industry software
• Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol), API platform design, or developer platform strategy
• Familiarity with GitHub Actions, Terraform or IaC tooling, and container orchestration (ECS, EKS)
• Experience running or contributing to an engineering M&A integration

Eligible candidates must reside in one of the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, or Wisconsin

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