Director of Platform Engineering
Core
Lead the foundational systems powering Grata's data, AI, and product surfaces for private market dealmaking, including data ingestion, orchestration, and the agentic runtime.
Role type
Director of Platform Engineering
Builds
Data ingestion/orchestration systems, agentic runtime, internal developer tooling, and infrastructure for M&A business development workflows.
Domain
Private markets / M&A / Data & AI platforms
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure | product features
Required skills
Platform strategy & vision, distributed systems architecture, event-driven/asynchronous architectures, cloud-native operations (AWS/GCP/Azure), Kubernetes, team leadership & hiring, operational health & SLA ownership, cross-functional partnership.
Preferred skills
Agentic/autonomous workflows, LLM-powered products, data engineering (Databricks/Spark), event streaming (Kafka/Pulsar), workflow orchestration (Airflow/dbt), financial data domains.
Technologies
AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes (EKS), Kafka, Pulsar, Airflow, dbt, Databricks, Spark
Responsibilities
Set multi-year platform strategy and roadmap; lead and grow the Platform team; own operational health, reliability, and security of platform services; drive cross-functional architectural evolutions; partner on capacity planning and infrastructure spend; communicate strategy to executives.
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC leader