Director, Engineering – Platform Services

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Designing and managing scalable cloud infrastructure.

• Facilitating platform services that empower product teams.

• Leading the integration of AI capabilities within platform services.

• Enhancing developer productivity and improving internal tools.

• Defining and implementing automation and cost strategies for infrastructure.

• Creating a centralized platform (Internal Developer Portal) to standardize how engineering teams: Spin up environments, Deploy services, Manage infrastructure, Scale applications globally.

• Promote a Platform-as-a-Product mindset, treating platform capabilities as products for internal developers.

• Establish platform vision and roadmap aligned with both business and engineering objectives.

• Boost developer productivity across Development teams by: Reducing cognitive load, Standardizing workflows, Enabling self-service capabilities.

• Construct and scale: Golden paths and service templates, Developer tooling and CLI/API interfaces, Environment provisioning systems.

• Develop platform services and APIs that simplify complex infrastructure operations.

• Advocate for an API-first approach to platform capabilities.

• Enable developers to engage with infrastructure through standardized APIs and services.

• Foster the adoption of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) throughout the organization.

• Lead initiatives to automate provisioning, configuration, and operations.

• Architect and supervise the implementation of highly resilient infrastructure systems, including: Multi-region failover strategies, Disaster recovery and business continuity, Multi-cloud abstraction (where necessary).

• Ensure infrastructure facilitates seamless application migrations during outages.

• Design systems for 99.99%+ availability across critical operations.

• Define and refine CI/CD systems to support: High-velocity development driven by AI-generated code, Progressive delivery (canary, blue-green), Automated rollback based on telemetry, Risk-aware validation and automated quality checks.

• Serve as the Scrum/Delivery leader for the platform organization.

• Balance immediate operational and migration requirements with long-term architectural advancements.

• Collaborate with SRE and Infra teams to ensure operational readiness.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Engineering or a related field.

• Over 12 years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or cloud engineering.

• Demonstrated experience in leading platform engineering and infrastructure teams at scale.

• Strong practical experience with: Cloud platforms (GCP preferred), Kubernetes (GKE) and distributed systems, CI/CD and DevOps practices.

• Experience in driving developer productivity initiatives and promoting platform adoption.

• Proven track record in defining and executing automation and infrastructure strategies.

• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management abilities.

• Nice to Have: Experience in enabling AI/ML platforms or AI product integrations, Familiarity with LLM platforms, model serving, or AI infrastructure, Experience with Internal Developer Platforms (IDP), Experience in high-growth SaaS environments, Exposure to compliance and audit-driven environments (SOC2, IPO readiness).

🏝️ Benefits

• EEO Statement:

• The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. As an employer subject to affirmative action regulations, we invite you to voluntarily provide the following demographic information. This information is used solely for compliance with government record-keeping, reporting, and other legal requirements. Providing this information is voluntary and refusal to do so will not affect your application status. This data will be kept separate from your application and will not be used in the hiring decision.