VP, Engineering
Core
Full technical ownership of a high-scale technology marketplace infrastructure processing hundreds of millions of API calls daily, focusing on architecture, unit economics, reliability, and building agent-native primitives.
Role type
VP of Engineering (Platform/Marketplace Infrastructure)
Builds
A developer platform for API discovery, testing, billing, and commerce, evolving into agent-native infrastructure.
Domain
Developer Platforms, API Marketplaces, High-Scale Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Engineering leadership at scale, AWS architecture, commerce/billing systems, security & abuse prevention, cost optimization, agent-native system design, LLM engineering productivity, distributed event-driven systems, API ecosystem management
Preferred skills
Agentic systems experience, LLM-based applications, API gateway/rate limiting expertise, agent protocols (MCP, A2A, x402)
Technologies
AWS (EKS, MSK, Aurora, Lambda, DMS), ClickHouse, Snowflake, Kafka, Stripe, PayPal, Node.js/TypeScript, Go, Python, Java
Responsibilities
Own end-to-end architecture across multi-region AWS stack and ~40 microservices; manage usage ledger, metering, billing, and publisher payouts; improve developer/publisher experience via UI/UX and diagnostics; build resilience against abuse and ensure security posture; consolidate vendor stack and reduce cloud costs; build agent-native primitives; integrate LLM-based engineering tools; hire and lead the engineering organization; partner with C-suite on strategy and unit economics
Seniority
Executive (VP), full technical authority and organizational leadership
