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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