Engineering Manager
Director of Platform Engineering leading the creation of an AI‑native engineering foundation, driving platform strategy, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines to empower cross‑functional teams and accelerate innovation across the organization.
**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 fo
Posted June 19, 2026