VP, Engineering – Platform Infrastructure & Operations

Datasite

Datasite VP leading infrastructure, platform reliability, and application support for global SaaS businesses. Overseeing multi-cloud operations, acquisitions, AI tooling, and approximately 50 engineers.

Posted 8/4/2026full-timeNew York City • Minnesota, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $167,000 - $300,400 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive leadership in Infrastructure and Platform Engineering, with a focus on cloud environments, SRE, and CI/CD practices. Proven ability to drive high-availability SLAs, develop future leaders, and integrate acquired infrastructure assets effectively.

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Engineering LeadershipMulti-Cloud EnvironmentsSRE ManagementHigh-Availability SLAsTechnical Communication

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Hard Skills

Architecture DesignSystem DesignOperational Trade-offsInfrastructure ManagementCI/CD PracticesObservabilityAI/ML Tooling DeploymentInfrastructure as Code (IaC)GitOpsApplication Support

Soft Skills

Executive CommunicationLeadership DevelopmentProblem SolvingTeam BuildingCustomer Issue Resolution

Tools & Technologies

AWSGCPAzureMonitoring ToolsIncident Response ToolsRunbook PracticesPostmortem Practices

Industry Keywords

SaaSGlobal Customer BaseTechnical Due DiligenceM&A IntegrationPlatform Governance

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the Infrastructure & Platform Engineering organization across Cloud, SRE, CI/CD & SDLC, and Application Support
Lead four Directors and approximately 50 engineers
Build a high-ownership, self-managing organization with minimal escalation
Develop Directors and future leaders; drive headcount planning, hiring, retention, and advancement
Provide technical leadership on architecture, system design, engineering quality, infrastructure, observability, CI/CD, reliability, and operational excellence
Influence platform strategy and architectural direction; address technical debt and evaluate emerging technologies
Own the 99.95% uptime SLA across AWS, GCP, and Azure production environments
Define and enforce SLOs, error budgets, incident response, on-call, runbook, and postmortem practices
Lead and scale Application Support and own tier-2/tier-3 technical escalations
Translate customer issue trends and root causes into prioritized engineering improvements
Serve as executive escalation point for high-severity customer issues
Lead technical integration of infrastructure and platform assets from acquisitions
Own the acquisition integration playbook covering cloud tenancy, CI/CD onboarding, monitoring, support handoff, and application support coverage
Assess acquisition infrastructure risk and provide VP-level input to technical due diligence
Champion AI-powered developer tooling and partner on rollout across engineering
Define and track engineering productivity metrics
Own the multi-year platform and infrastructure roadmap
Drive standardization and centralization of infrastructure management
Communicate platform health, risk, and roadmap to the C-suite
Represent Engineering in product planning, security reviews, finance, and customer escalations

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years in engineering leadership
At least 3–5 years at VP level
Leadership experience in a large-scale, global SaaS organization supporting mission-critical products
Experience operating platforms serving a global customer base
Expertise designing and managing highly available, resilient, geographically distributed infrastructure
Experience leading SRE, Platform, or Infrastructure organizations at scale (40+ engineers)
Technical depth in architecture, system design, and operational trade-offs
Experience owning or closely partnering with technical support or application support
Familiarity with multi-cloud environments and modern infrastructure patterns, including IaC, GitOps, containers, and observability
Track record owning and meeting high-availability SLAs in production SaaS
Experience integrating acquired infrastructure assets
Strong executive communication skills
Demonstrated ability to develop leaders
Strongly preferred: hands-on experience deploying AI/ML tooling for developer productivity at scale
Strongly preferred: background in product-led, fast-paced SaaS organizations
Strongly preferred: familiarity with centralized platform governance in a multi-team environment
Strongly preferred: experience contributing to M&A technical due diligence

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
Retirement savings plan
Paid time off
Other employee benefits
May be eligible for bonuses, commissions, or overtime if applicable