Director, Platform Engineering

Director, Platform Engineering
Pleasanton, CA, United States
Job Description
At we believe deeply that the "right" people are our greatest asset. We value people with high energy, who possess the ability to energize others. People who are smart, creative and have a point of view. People who see the answer in every problem, versus those who see the problem in every answer. People who are driven, determined and won't take "no" for an answer. We value team players, people who are more concerned with what's right, rather than who's right.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead a team of platform engineers to deliver on the platform team’s mission of excellence in developer experience, continuity, security and observability.
• Collaborate with key customers (developers , SRE and security engineering teams)and stakeholders to develop, plan and execute the platform roadmap.
• Drive operational excellence by maturing observability, incident response workflows and problem solving capabilities of the platform team
• Recruit and mentor a team of platform engineers to continuously improve the platform and related tools and processes.
• Enhance our CI/CD pipelines by automating build, test, and deployment processes to improve accuracy and velocity
• Evaluate our orchestration infrastructure and drive improvements to the same to deliver continuity and scalability
• Enable self service capabilities for platform services for developers to reduce friction and improve developer velocity
• Ensure security is at the forefront of everything the platform does by collaborating with security engineering team
• Influence enterprise architecture decisions for critical applications and infrastructure
• Encourage a data-driven culture to enhance performance, efficiency, and scalability of services

• B.S. degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent professional experience
• 7+ years of demonstrated experience leading platform teams delivering enterprise workload orchestration, improved developer experience, observability and security
• Strong record of recruiting, mentoring and leading high performing platform teams
• Well versed with distributed computing principles and related architecture patterns.
• Hands on experience with containerization and K8 technologies and experience deploying these technologies at enterprise scale
• Experience operating enterprise CI/CD pipelines in service of developers and other internal customers
• Awareness of open telemetry framework for observability and experience improving observability capabilities thereby delivering improved response and resolution times
• Security savvy and understanding of security risks related to platform landscape in general
• Strong execution bias, can do approach and compelling problem solving skills; Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent collaboration skills and ability to influence key stakeholders.