Director of Platform Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +4 more states.

📋 Description

• Take ownership and enhance the developer experience across all product engineering teams, focusing on tooling standards, AI harness integration, deployment pipelines, and governance models.

• Establish and maintain platform engineering standards that empower engineering teams to deliver faster and with a higher quality standard.

• Promote the adoption of AI-native SDLC practices throughout the organization, collaborating with engineering managers to gauge and enhance development velocity.

• Build and oversee the Platform Engineering team, which includes a Senior Platform Engineer and an SRE/DevOps Lead.

• Cultivate engineering talent and foster a culture within the platform function centered around reliability, craftsmanship, and automation-first thinking.

• Manage the reliability posture of the platform, including uptime SLOs, on-call frameworks, incident response protocols, and a culture of postmortem analysis.

• Set up telemetry, observability, and alerting standards across all product lines, utilizing tools such as DataDog, CloudWatch, and PagerDuty.

• Actively engage in FMG's AI engineering transformation, which encompasses the development of agentic tools and AI-assisted QA and testing.

⛳️ Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a minimum of 5 years in leadership roles related to platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE.

• Proven experience in building or scaling a platform engineering function, from establishing standards to team growth.

• Strong expertise in cloud infrastructure (primarily AWS, with GCP as a secondary focus), CI/CD pipelines, and contemporary deployment practices.

• Practical experience with observability tools such as DataDog, CloudWatch, PagerDuty, or similar technologies.

• Experience in leading and developing engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, and setting technical direction.

• Excellent communication skills, capable of translating platform strategy for non-technical stakeholders and advocating for investment.

• A proven history of successful project delivery, holding teams accountable while effectively removing obstacles to progress.

• Access to a private and secure workspace, free from distractions.

• Availability during the assigned work schedule for regular duties and responsibilities as specified by the supervisor.

• A reliable internet connection with speeds of 5 Megabits down / 3 Megabits up (5mbps/3mbps).

🏝️ Benefits

• Generous paid holiday schedule, which includes a full week off for our Winter Holiday Shutdown.

• Comprehensive paid time off policies that encompass vacation, sick leave, parental leave, and bereavement leave.

• Robust insurance plan featuring: Medical with $0 co-pay, Telehealth services, Dental, and Vision coverage.

• Health Savings Account (HSA) with substantial employer contributions.

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) available.

• Company-sponsored Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) coverage.

• Company-funded Short & Long Term Disability coverage.

• Access to a Company-paid Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

• Matching 401(k) plan with immediate full vesting.

• On-Demand Pay option, allowing access to a portion of earned wages before the payday with same-day deposit.

• Internet & Gym Reimbursement benefits!

• Provision of work computer equipment to ensure your success!