Director of Platform Engineering

Job summary

The Director of Platform Engineering is responsible for centralizing and enhancing DevOps, SRE, and database reliability practices, requiring hands-on technical expertise and the ability to influence cross-team architecture.

Qualifications

• Experience with CI/CD and deployment-pipeline modernization
• Knowledge of formal SRE practices and incident management
• Design experience for on-call/incident-management programs
• Database reliability experience for high-traffic production databases
• Experience in vertical SaaS or mission-critical software
• Ability to communicate reliability and risk to executive leadership
• Hands-on experience in technical environments

Responsibilities

• Centralizes CI/CD and deployment practices across product lines
• Contributes to containerizing and automating deployments
• Improves deployment frequency and release safety
• Establishes SLOs/SLIs and production reliability standards
• Implements monitoring and observability patterns
• Partners with development teams for consistent instrumentation
• Manages on-call tooling and escalation policies
• Defines RCA and post-incident review processes
• Ensures operational reliability of production databases
• Defines schema-change practices for high-traffic databases
• Collaborates on backup and continuity runbooks
• Implements operational metrics for system health
• Builds dashboards for visibility into system health
• Formalizes AI query standards for observability data
• Partners on shared component libraries and frontend tooling
• Influences cross-cutting platform architecture
• Builds team structure and hiring plans
• Establishes team's operating rhythm

Skills

Relocation