Director of Platform Engineering
Location: Remote
Compensation: To Be Discussed
Reviewed: Wed, Jun 17, 2026
This job expires in: 13 days
Job Summary
Leading a cross-platform team, the full-time remote Director of Platform Engineering will own the architecture of developer experience, tooling standards, and deployment pipelines while driving the transition to AI-native software development.
Key responsibilities
- Own and evolve the developer experience, including tooling standards and deployment pipelines
- Build and lead the Platform Engineering team, fostering a culture of reliability and automation
- Establish and maintain reliability standards, including uptime SLOs and incident response protocols
Required qualifications
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in platform engineering or DevOps leadership roles
- Demonstrated experience building or scaling a platform engineering function
- Strong command of cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS, and CI/CD practices
- Hands-on experience with observability tooling such as DataDog or CloudWatch
- Proven track record of leading and developing engineering teams
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