Director of Engineering, Internal Platforms & Developer Experience
Core
Building foundational internal platforms, infrastructure, and developer experience tools to enable product engineering teams to build, deploy, and run applications efficiently.
Role type
Director of Internal Platforms & Developer Experience
Builds
Internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, cloud services, and AI-assisted development tooling.
Domain
Software Engineering / Platform Engineering / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Platform engineering strategy, team leadership (managing managers), cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), container orchestration (k8s), CI/CD systems, infrastructure-as-code, observability, AI-assisted development governance, cross-functional partnership, budget management.
Preferred skills
Platform-as-a-product mindset, experience scaling platform organizations, AI coding assistant integration, incident response, capacity planning.
Technologies
AWS, Azure, GCP, k8s, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Terraform, Crossplane
Responsibilities
Define platform engineering strategy across infrastructure and AI enablement; lead engineering teams for core infrastructure and internal developer platforms; establish guardrails and governance frameworks for AI adoption; set standards for platform reliability, scalability, and security; partner cross-functionally with product, security, and data leaders; champion platform-as-a-product using adoption metrics.
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC with management of multiple teams