Director of Platform
Instinct Science
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $175,000 - $240,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
Cloud
About the role
- Define the overarching platform vision and multi-year technology roadmap
- Partner with executive leadership across product, engineering, and business units to ensure platform strategy directly supports and enables company-wide objectives
- Build, mentor, and scale the platform engineering organization, including defining its structure, roles, and career paths
- Own and manage the platform's budget, including forecasting and optimizing cloud infrastructure costs and resource allocation to maximize return on investment
- Evaluate and champion the adoption of new technologies and architectural patterns to maintain a competitive advantage
- Establish and enforce company-wide architectural standards, security policies, and operational best practices
- Manage key relationships with external vendors, technology partners, and service providers
- Provide technical due diligence and integration planning for potential M&A activities
- Ensure the platform organization is prepared to handle and resolve the most complex, high-priority production incidents
Requirements
- BS/MS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering and platform development, with at least 7 years in a leadership role
- Demonstrated experience at the Director or Manager level leading a platform or infrastructure organization
- Proven track record of building and scaling cloud-native platforms to support a rapidly growing business
- Deep expertise in cloud platforms and architectural patterns
- Experience in a B2B SaaS environment is highly preferred
Benefits
- medical, dental and vision benefits
- 401K with match
- owner-like flexibility over work and time-off
- time to innovate and Flow State Fridays
- a generous stipend that can be used for almost anything to allow you to bring your best self to work
- all-expense-paid time throughout the year together, including at our annual retreat
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
cloud-native platformssoftware engineeringplatform developmentarchitectural patternscloud platformsbudget managementresource allocationtechnical due diligenceintegration planning
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringstrategic planningrelationship managementproblem-solving
Certifications
BS Degree in Computer ScienceMS Degree in Engineering