Director of Platform Engineering

Emergent Software

Director of Platform Engineering shaping developer tooling and AI-driven practices for a scalable software organization. Leading platform engineering efforts and overseeing team growth and strategy.

Posted 6/16/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $165,000 - $175,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the developer experience across tooling, AI integration, CI/CD, and governance
Set platform standards to improve speed, quality, and consistency
Drive adoption of AI‑native SDLC practices and improve engineering velocity
Lead architecture for shared infrastructure, observability, deployment, and APIs
Build and lead the Platform Engineering team
Develop talent and foster a culture of reliability, automation, and craftsmanship
Represent Platform Engineering across Product, IT, and executive leadership
Partner with engineering leadership on long-term technology strategy
Own platform reliability, including SLOs, on-call, and incident management
Define observability and alerting standards across systems
Align with IT on boundaries between platform, infrastructure, and security
Evaluate and implement tools and practices to improve productivity
Drive AI engineering transformation, including AI-assisted development and testing
Advise on platform strategy, architecture, and technical diligence

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE leadership roles
Demonstrated experience building or scaling a platform engineering function, from establishing standards through growing a team
Strong command of cloud infrastructure (AWS primary, GCP secondary), CI/CD pipelines, and modern deployment practices
Hands-on experience with observability tooling (DataDog, CloudWatch, PagerDuty, or equivalent)
Experience leading and developing engineering teams — hiring, mentoring, and setting technical direction
Strong communicator who is comfortable translating platform strategy for non-technical audiences and making the case for investment
Proven track record of shipping: you hold teams accountable for delivery and know how to unblock them

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Cloud Emergent Software is a software development and consulting company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company specializes in custom software development, including websites, web applications, mobile apps, and business process automation. Emergent Software also offers services in database and analytics, Azure cloud consulting, and DevOps. The company acts as a full-stack technology partner for businesses, providing services from design to deployment, with a focus on long-term client partnerships. Additionally, Emergent Software provides staffing services through its sister company, Emergent Staffing, for roles in software development, cloud engineering, and more. Director of Platform Engineering Job not on LinkedIn 🔥 1 minute ago 🇺🇸 United States – Remote 💵 $165k - $175k / year ⏰ Full Time 🔴 Lead 🏗️ Platform Engineer AWS Cloud Google Cloud Platform SDLC Apply Now Find Hiring Managers Customize resume + cover letter Report problem ☆ Save ☑️ Mark as applied ❌ Hide 📋 Description
Own the developer experience across tooling, AI integration, CI/CD, and governance
Set platform standards to improve speed, quality, and consistency
Drive adoption of AI‑native SDLC practices and improve engineering velocity
Lead architecture for shared infrastructure, observability, deployment, and APIs
Build and lead the Platform Engineering team
Develop talent and foster a culture of reliability, automation, and craftsmanship
Represent Platform Engineering across Product, IT, and executive leadership
Partner with engineering leadership on long-term technology strategy
Own platform reliability, including SLOs, on-call, and incident management
Define observability and alerting standards across systems
Align with IT on boundaries between platform, infrastructure, and security
Evaluate and implement tools and practices to improve productivity
Drive AI engineering transformation, including AI-assisted development and testing
Advise on platform strategy, architecture, and technical diligence 🎯 Requirements
10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE leadership roles
Demonstrated experience building or scaling a platform engineering function, from establishing standards through growing a team
Strong command of cloud infrastructure (AWS primary, GCP secondary), CI/CD pipelines, and modern deployment practices
Hands-on experience with observability tooling (DataDog, CloudWatch, PagerDuty, or equivalent)
Experience leading and developing engineering teams — hiring, mentoring, and setting technical direction
Strong communicator who is comfortable translating platform strategy for non-technical audiences and making the case for investment
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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringplatform engineeringDevOpsSREcloud infrastructureCI/CDobservabilityAI integrationincident managementAI-assisted development

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationmentoringteam buildingstrategic thinkingcollaborationaccountabilityproblem-solvingculture developmenttranslating technical concepts