Owns the end-to-end product engineering toolchain that supports thousands of workloads and hundreds of engineering and product teams
Partner with senior Engineering and Product leaders to deeply understand the Developer experience and reduce friction that slows teams down
Partner with Architecture, Engineering, and Product leaders to define and execute multi-year Developer Platforms strategy
Lead transformation toward AI-assisted and agentic engineering—optimizing the entire engineering environment for autonomous agents and humans to build software together
Establish the "paved road" philosophy: create well-lit paths and self-service capabilities for teams
Own the strategy for AI-native development tools—ensuring best-in-class AI capabilities are integrated into the Developer environment
Drive the roadmap for the engineering data plane giving visibility into workloads health and quality
Represent Developer Platforms as a strategic capability to executive stakeholders

Requirements

12+ years in software engineering or platform engineering
5+ years in senior leadership roles running platform or developer experience functions at enterprise scale
Deep, hands-on familiarity with the modern engineering toolchain: source control and developer workflows (GitHub or equivalent), artifact management (Artifactory or equivalent), CI/CD pipeline platforms, and container/Kubernetes runtime environments
Proven track record building or scaling an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) or developer experience function, including self-service capabilities, golden paths, and developer portals
Demonstrated experience leading operational observability and monitoring toolchains—including log aggregation, APM, and incident management platforms—at large scale
Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and secure cloud landing zone design, preferably on AWS, including infrastructure-as-code practices (Terraform or equivalent)
Experience implementing AI-augmented developer capabilities—including AI coding assistants, agentic development workflows, or LLM-integrated toolchain automation
Strong understanding of modern software delivery practices: DevOps, GitOps, feature flagging, progressive delivery, and observability-driven development
Ability to lead through influence across a large, matrixed enterprise with hundreds of engineering teams
Track record translating platform strategy into business value narratives for executive audiences
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience

Benefits

Flexibility to take as much vacation with pay
Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year
Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for own wellness or family members
Additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave
Time off to vote
Jury duty leave
Volunteer time off
Military leave
Parental leave
Health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
Retirement planning (401(k))
Paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO)

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringplatform engineeringAI-assisted developmentinternal developer platforminfrastructure-as-codecloud infrastructureTerraformDevOpsGitOpsobservability-driven development

Soft Skills

leadershipinfluencestrategic thinkingcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingstakeholder managementteam optimizationtranslating strategy into valuecross-functional partnership

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Software Engineering