Director of Engineering, Platform

Legion

full-time

Posted on: 9/17/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $220,000 - $263,000 per year

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AngularCloudHibernateJavaJavaScriptKubernetesMySQLPrometheusReactSpringSpring BootSpringBoot

About the role

Hire and build a globally-distributed engineering team. Build, mentor, and manage a team of talented cloud platform engineers. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team.
Provide strategic direction and leadership to the cloud platform engineering team. Develop and communicate a clear vision for the future of our cloud infrastructure.
Define and measure engineering OKRs.
Be hands-on: write secure, efficient, enterprise-quality Java code. Conduct peer code reviews.
Generate and implement process improvements, especially cross-team processes.
Enable Product, Quality, and UX performance via solid, stable counterpart partnership.
Ensure the platform meets the highest standards of security, compliance, and data protection. Implement and maintain robust security measures and protocols.
Stay abreast of the latest cloud technologies, trends, and best practices. Provide technical guidance and thought leadership to the team.
Interface with customer success and implementation teams to resolve customer issues.
Participate in the Incident Management on-call rotation to help ensure the availability goals are met, by working with reliability engineers and development team members.

8-12 years of experience in cloud platform design and development.
8+ years of experience building platforms with Java, MySQL, Spring Boot, Hibernate.
5+ years of experience with observability platforms such as DataDog, AppDymanics, Prometheus.
5+ years of experience with data modeling and relational databases.
3+ years of experience managing fully remote teams in a startup environment.
Demonstrated experience in design and implementation of a scalable cloud or mobile solution.
Demonstrated experience in timely delivery of a product to market with understanding on customer rollout.
Proven track record of using problem-solving / root cause analysis.
Bachelor's degree in Engineering required; Masters degree preferred.