Director of Engineering - infrastructure & Operations
Core
Lead the Core Infrastructure and Operations Engineering team to manage and mentor multi-functional groups (SRE, Ops, Data & AI, Database) while owning the cloud platform and driving enterprise-grade reliability.
Role type
Director of Engineering (Infrastructure & Operations)
Builds
Cloud platform, infrastructure as a product, mission-critical systems
Domain
B2B SaaS, Infrastructure, Cloud Operations, AI/ML Platforms
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Systems architecture, AWS scale operations, AI/LLM platform governance, Database platforms (OLTP/analytics), High-reliability platform management, Engineering team leadership, Cost governance, Vendor management
Preferred skills
B2B SaaS background, Global distributed team leadership
Technologies
AWS (VPC, IAM, multi-account, Bedrock, Anthropic, OpenAI), OLTP, Analytics databases
Responsibilities
Lead and scale a high-performing engineering team; Define and drive multi-quarter platform initiatives for reliability; Partner with product leaders to evolve the platform as a product; Solve ambiguous high-impact problems like scalability and abstractions; Drive alignment across complex interdependent systems; Raise the bar on engineering quality and operational excellence.
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC with management of managers