Director of Platform Engineering

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

📋 Description

• Conduct one-on-one meetings, establish goals, lead performance cycles, and proactively invest in the development and well-being of each engineer on your team.

• Foster a culture of ownership and technical excellence.

• Recruit externally and/or promote from within to enhance leadership capacity across the three verticals.

• Manage the platform roadmap for all three verticals in close partnership with the VP and the Technical Product Manager.

• Convert company-level priorities into defined product objectives and team commitments.

• Clearly communicate trade-offs regarding reliability, velocity, and technical debt to stakeholders.

• Collaborate with the Technical Product Manager to ensure that product-led delivery is organized, monitored, and unimpeded.

• Take responsibility for SLAs and operational reliability of Filigran Cloud and SaaS deployments.

• Promote ongoing enhancements in incident response, on-call practices, and post-mortem culture.

• Ensure that deployment artifacts (Helm, Docker Compose, Appliance) adhere to quality, security, and usability standards across all supported targets.

• Maintain close involvement with the work to earn engineers' trust, identify risks early, and steer key architectural choices.

• Establish and enforce engineering standards across Kubernetes, IaC (Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD, observability, and cloud-native tooling (AWS, Azure, GCP).

• Advocate for automation-first and as-code principles across all three product domains.

• Support an AI-first approach — starting with the review and assessment of code produced and changes, while also utilizing AI as a tool to brainstorm or enhance velocity.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.

• At least 3 years in an engineering leadership position, managing engineers directly, with a proven track record of building or evolving team structures.

• Proven ability to recruit, develop, and retain senior engineers and emerging leaders.

• Strong technical credibility in at least two of the following areas: bare-metal/Kubernetes infrastructure, cloud-native deployments (AWS/Azure/GCP), observability stacks, IaC (Terraform, Ansible), or packaging/distribution (Helm, Docker).

• Comfortable working in fast-paced environments with frequent context switching.

• Demonstrated high sense of ownership.

• Excellent communication skills: capable of aligning engineers, TPM, and executives with equal clarity.

• Remote-first mindset; based in Europe with a maximum ±2-hour difference from CET.

• Experience with Agentic AI for AI-assisted software development and automating daily repetitive tasks related to documentation, management, and organizational topics.

• Fluent in both English and French.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary plus equity — everyone participates in our success.

• Remote-first, flexible, and balanced — work arrangements that suit your lifestyle.

• Your setup, your choice — select the equipment that works best for you.

• Biannual gatherings — we meet in person for regional and global offsites to connect, collaborate, and enhance our culture beyond the screen.