Senior Director, Developer Experience, Platform Engineering

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

📋 Description

• Take charge of the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for Developer Experience platforms, which encompass:

• Developer portals and internal platform products.

• CI/CD pipelines and systems for code delivery.

• Container-based developer and runtime environments, including orchestration and lifecycle management.

• API platforms, service templates, and established "golden paths".

• Tools for observability, reliability, and operations.

• Lead DevX platforms as products, ensuring:

• Clear ownership and accountability.

• Roadmaps shaped by genuine developer needs.

• Defined expectations for reliability, security, and service.

• Serve as a hands-on technical leader by:

• Reviewing architecture, designs, and system patterns.

• Applying sound engineering judgment to decisions regarding platforms and tools.

• Making well-informed trade-offs among scalability, security, reliability, and usability.

• Providing extensive technical leadership across diverse engineering environments, including modern backend, frontend, mobile, data, and distributed systems technologies.

• Utilizing a strong understanding of various programming paradigms (object-oriented, functional, reactive, event-driven) to ensure that DevX initiatives reflect how engineers genuinely write and maintain code.

• Being responsible for the strategy and health of core repositories, which includes:

• Code organization and modularization.

• Management of dependencies, versions, and releases.

• Shared libraries, frameworks, and reuse patterns.

• Secure, compliant contribution and governance models.

• Integrating Developer Experience into:

• Incident management and postmortems.

• Reliability and SRE practices.

• Initiatives for a secure software supply chain.

• Change and release management.

• Ensuring that DevX platforms and tools are:

• Secure and resilient by default.

• Observable and managed with production standards.

• Fostering a culture of automation, self-service, and continuous engineering enhancement.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 15 years of experience in software engineering, which includes:

• Substantial hands-on development, system design, and production operations experience.

• Direct participation in the construction and operation of complex, distributed systems.

• Proven ability to leverage previous engineering experience for platform architecture, code delivery, and technical strategy.

• In-depth expertise in:

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including large-scale production operations.

• Container-based platforms and orchestration technologies.

• CI/CD systems, developer tooling, and code delivery pipelines.

• Polyglot software architectures and contemporary application frameworks.

• Observability, reliability, and SRE practices.

• Strong familiarity with:

• Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

• Trade-offs in multi-cloud and hybrid architecture.

• Solid comprehension of:

• Secure software supply chains.

• Compliance and regulatory requirements typically found in the automotive sector.

🏝️ Benefits

• Immediate coverage for medical, dental, vision, and prescription drugs.

• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized backup childcare, and more.

• Family-building benefits including reimbursement for adoption and surrogacy expenses, fertility treatments, and more.

• Vehicle discount program for employees and their family members, along with management leases.

• Tuition assistance.

• Established and active employee resource groups.

• Paid time off for individual and team community service initiatives.

• A generous holiday schedule, including paid time off during the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.

• Paid time off with an option to purchase additional vacation days.