Vice President, Platform Engineering

Vice President overseeing platform technologies and engineering excellence at HP, a global technology leader. Fostering innovation and driving AI-enabled experiences for millions of customers.

Posted 6/12/2026full-timePalo Alto • California, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $280,000 - $350,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead by example, fostering a culture of accountability, technology and architecture excellence, and a customer-first mindset across the organization.
Attract, build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of technology leaders with diverse expertise, perspectives, and backgrounds.
Lead the developer experience function, responsible for maximizing AI-enabled developer productivity, efficiency, and satisfaction by reducing friction across the software development lifecycle for thousands of developers building HP products’ software and platform technology stacks.
Lead the security function, responsible for making secure software delivery the default path, with security embedded into application software, platforms, pipelines, and engineering workflows.
Lead the data and AI function, responsible for developing and executing a new vision for delivering trusted data, AI, and ML capabilities that software, platform, and product teams can use safely and repeatedly.
Lead the infrastructure function, responsible for delivering scalable, cost-efficient, secure-by-default infrastructure primitives for all software and platform engineering teams.
Lead the reliability function, responsible for defining and leading the reliability strategy and execution for the shared platform services that power HP’s products and digital experiences.
Partner closely with stakeholders to implement and exemplify a true platform engineering producer-consumer model supported by well-defined, aligned service-level objectives.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field; a Ph.D. is preferred.
Current or prior engineering experience operating at the VP level within an established technology company.
15+ years of relevant experience in engineering functions, including 8+ years in senior people management roles, and preferably 4+ years of technology/software engineering leadership experience managing global teams, serving multiple internal customer organizations, and delivering capabilities used by millions of users or supporting $100M+ businesses.
Demonstrable accomplishments in organizational development efficiencies and building a high-performing team of talented software engineers and leaders with diverse experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds.
Demonstrated success in delivering significant, measurable business value through engineering excellence, efficiency, and execution-speed improvements.
Deep technical expertise and experience in distributed systems, modern cloud-native software architecture, and modern AI-native software development lifecycle practices.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, and the demonstrable ability to develop and deliver persuasive, senior-executive-level content.
Excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build deep, trusted cross-organizational relationships.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Long term/short term disability insurance
Employee assistance program
Flexible spending account
Life insurance
Generous time off policies, including; 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
11 paid holidays
Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave

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Hard Skills & Tools

distributed systemscloud-native software architectureAI-native software development lifecyclesoftware engineeringapplication securitydata managementmachine learninginfrastructure managementreliability engineeringdeveloper productivity

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationcollaborationorganizational developmentteam buildinginterpersonal skillsaccountabilitypersuasionstakeholder engagementcustomer-first mindset

Certifications

Bachelor's degreeMaster's degreePh.D.