Director, Product Software Engineering | Platform Engineering and Architecture
Core
Provide strategic leadership and hands-on engineering for a platform team of 600+ engineers, focusing on infrastructure as code, container deployment, and CI/CD automation to accelerate product delivery.
Role type
Director, Platform Engineering and Architecture
Builds
Self-service infrastructure platforms, container release pipelines, and developer enablement tools for Kubernetes-based environments.
Domain
Enterprise Software / Cloud Infrastructure / Platform Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Strategic leadership, Kubernetes architecture, GitOps (Argo CD/Akuity), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Pulumi), CI/CD governance, SRE practices, Budget management, Matrixed organization navigation
Preferred skills
Service meshes, Progressive delivery (Argo Rollouts/Flagger), Supply chain security (SBOM/SLSA), Observability platforms, AI tool adoption
Technologies
Kubernetes, Argo CD, Akuity, Terraform, Pulumi, OAM, Azure/AWS/GCP
Responsibilities
Define platform roadmaps and SLAs, govern container release processes, build and mature SRE teams, establish site reliability practices, drive adoption of AI developer tools
Seniority
Director, strategic leadership with hands-on technical execution