Director of Platform Engineering
Core
Lead the Platform Engineering group to build and run the foundation for Riverside's agentic platform, ensuring fast, reliable, and secure infrastructure for content creation at scale.
Role type
Director of Platform Engineering (Backend, DevOps, Security, AI Infrastructure)
Builds
Core platform services, cloud infrastructure, backend systems, DevOps pipelines, security controls, and AI agent infrastructure
Domain
SaaS, Cloud Infrastructure, AI Infrastructure, Media Streaming
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Backend engineering, Developer Experience, DevOps/SRE, Cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Team leadership, Technical strategy, Incident management, Security, AI infrastructure
Preferred skills
Media streaming, AI infrastructure, Security
Technologies
AWS, GCP, Kubernetes
Responsibilities
Lead the Platform Engineering group through team leads; Own reliability, scalability, cost, and security of cloud infrastructure; Set the platform roadmap with VP R&D; Hire, grow, and coach team leads and engineers; Collaborate with R&D, Product, and business to unblock teams; Participate in design reviews and incident response; Shape AI infrastructure and developer workflows
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC with team leadership