Director of Platform Engineering

FMG

Director of Platform Engineering leading developer experience initiatives in a financial marketing platform. Shaping the engineering organization’s practices towards AI-native software development.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeRemote • California, Florida, New York, North Carolina, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $175,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and evolve the developer experience across all product engineering teams: tooling standards, AI harness integration, deployment pipelines, and governance model.
Define and enforce platform engineering standards that enable engineering teams to ship faster and at a higher quality bar.
Drive adoption of AI-native SDLC practices across the organization, partnering with engineering managers to measure and improve development velocity.
Build and lead the Platform Engineering team, including a Senior Platform Engineer and SRE/DevOps Lead.
Develop engineering talent and establish the culture of the platform function — reliability, craftsmanship, automation-first thinking.
Own the reliability posture of the platform: uptime SLOs, on-call frameworks, incident response standards, and postmortem culture.
Establish telemetry, observability, and alerting standards across all product lines (DataDog, CloudWatch, PagerDuty).
Be an active participant in FMG's AI engineering transformation — from agentic development tools to AI-assisted QA and testing.

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 — 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.
Access to a private & secure workspace, free from distractions.
Accessible during the assigned work schedule for regular duties and responsibilities as outlined by the supervisor.
An internet connection with speeds of 5 Megabits down / 3 Megabits up (5mbps/3mbps).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Generous paid holiday schedule, including a full week off for our Winter Holiday Shutdown.
Comprehensive paid time off policies cover vacation, sick days, parental leave, and bereavement leave.
Robust insurance plan includes: Medical with $0 co-pay, Telehealth plan, Dental, Vision.
Health Savings Account (HSA) with generous employer contributions.
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).
Company-paid Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) coverage.
Company-paid Short & Long Term Disability coverage.
Company-paid Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
Matching 401(k) with immediate full vesting.
On Demand Pay - allows access to a portion of your earned wages prior to the payday with same day deposit.
Internet & Gym Reimbursement!
Work computer equipment provided to ensure success!

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Hard Skills & Tools

platform engineeringDevOpsSREcloud infrastructureAWSGCPCI/CD pipelinesobservabilityAI-native SDLC practicesincident response

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationmentoringteam buildingstrategic thinkingaccountabilitycollaborationculture developmentreliability focusautomation-first thinking