Director of Platform Engineering
Overstory
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: New York • United States
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About the role
- Own the platform strategy across Platform, MLOps, and SRE, aligning it with company and product goals.
- Grow senior ICs (and eventually manages) across multiple teams, fostering strong technical leadership and healthy team cultures.
- Define and evolve our platform vision, including developer experience, internal tooling, CI/CD, infrastructure, observability, and reliability standards.
- Oversee MLOps systems that support model development, training, deployment, monitoring, and governance in production.
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, ML, Data, Security, and Compliance to ensure the platform meets current and future needs.
- Balance speed and stability, making thoughtful tradeoffs between innovation, cost, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Set metrics and accountability for platform performance, reliability, and developer productivity.
Requirements
- 10+ years experience leading platform, infrastructure, or reliability teams in a scaling startup environment, including navigating ambiguity, rapid growth, and the transition from early-stage systems to more mature, repeatable platforms.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native infrastructure (GCP strongly preferred), Kubernetes, CI/CD, and modern DevOps practices.
- Experience supporting machine learning systems in production, including model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
- A track record of building reliable, scalable systems used by fast-moving product teams.
- Excellent people leadership skills — you know how to coach managers, grow talent, and build inclusive, high-performing teams.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to influence across org boundaries.
- Experience in data- or ML-heavy products.
Benefits
- To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis.
- Flexible working environment with a lot of autonomy. We build our work days around our lives, not the other way around.
- Other benefits like a remote working budget, an educational budget and time to develop new skills.
- To be surrounded by an excellent, vibrant, smart team who have each other's back and believe in a culture of openness, tolerance and respect.
- Equity and a competitive salary.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
MLOpscloud-native infrastructureKubernetesCI/CDDevOps practicesmodel deploymentmonitoringlifecycle managementscalable systemsplatform performance metrics
Soft Skills
people leadershipcoachingtalent growthinclusive team buildingcommunicationinfluencingcross-functional collaborationnavigating ambiguityoperational excellencethoughtful tradeoffs