Engineering Leader – Platform Engineering

ClassDojo

Engineering Leader managing ClassDojo's platform engineering organization and overseeing infrastructure, data, developer experience, and AI tooling for educational experiences.

Posted 6/29/2026full-timeRemote • California, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $240,000 - $280,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own Platform's company-level objectives and the engineering plan that delivers them
Translate company priorities and product-engineering needs into a platform roadmap, in a way that flows both up and down
Be responsible for build-vs-buy and architecture-level trade-offs across infrastructure, data, developer experience, and AI tooling; own the technical roadmap and how it balances against the needs of your customers
Represent Platform and collaborate with cross-functional leadership partners and in engineering-wide leadership conversations
Coach EMs to a higher bar with clear feedback, growth plans, and direct support
Drive AI-native development in line with ClassDojo’s engineering practices
Take accountability for SLAs/SLOs and incident response across the platform surface
Support and drive architecture and systems design decisions across infrastructure, data, DevEx, and AI tooling; ensure systems are reliable, maintainable, and operationally ready
Partner with Security, Ops, Data, and other functions as the platform requires.

Requirements

What you’ll need

2+ years managing managers, with direct reports who were themselves people managers
10+ years total in technical roles, with a strong individual-contributor era you can still draw on
Have owned a platform, infrastructure, data, or developer-productivity area and delivered a measurable outcome (throughput, reliability, cost, or operational safety)
Have built or evolved platform engineering practices across multiple teams, not just within one, and earned adoption
Have hired, developed, and managed engineering managers
Comfortable making and defending build-vs-buy and architecture-level trade-offs across the platform surface; can still reason about code with taste
Embrace Candor > Harmony: give the hard message early, comfortable with disagreement
Use LLM-based tools daily and push your teams to adopt them
Are an excellent written communicator; can articulate strategy and trade-offs clearly in writing.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status
Accommodation for disabilities or special needs.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Platform OwnershipInfrastructure ManagementData ManagementDeveloper ProductivityBuild-Vs-Buy Decision MakingSystem DesignIncident ResponseSLA/SLO AccountabilityEngineering Practices DevelopmentTechnical Roadmap Ownership

Soft Skills

CoachingFeedback DeliveryCandorDisagreement ManagementCommunication