StarCompliance

Director of Platform Engineering

StarCompliance

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AzureCloudJavaPython

About the role

  • Establish, hire, and lead StarCompliance’s new Platform Engineering function, bringing together SRE and DevOps capabilities currently distributed across engineering teams.
  • Coach, mentor, and develop Platform Engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, autonomy, and continuous learning in alignment with “The StarCompliance Way.”
  • Define and communicate the vision for a modern, cloud-native engineering platform that increases velocity, reliability, and consistency across all product teams.
  • Lead the design, build, and governance of standardized CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, ensuring secure, repeatable, and scalable software delivery across our SaaS platform.
  • Define release orchestration patterns, including automated gating, zero-downtime deployments, rollback processes, and environment promotion workflows.
  • Partner with the Architecture team to evolve Star’s cloud platform, ensuring alignment on patterns, standards, and long-term technical strategy.
  • Define and implement SRE practices such as SLIs/SLOs, performance baselines, incident response processes, and error budgets.
  • Lead the adoption and evolution of Azure cloud services, PaaS components, and infrastructure automation aligned to Star’s SaaS platform roadmap.
  • Remain actively involved in hands-on engineering where appropriate - reviewing code, contributing to automation, prototyping solutions, and supporting critical incidents.

Requirements

  • Degree or Equivalent
  • Proven experience leading and developing high-performing SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering teams within a SaaS or cloud-native environment.
  • Experience hiring, structuring, and scaling an engineering function from the ground up.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, capable of influencing architecture, product, engineering, and executive stakeholders.
  • Deep expertise in designing and operating CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps (preferred) or equivalent tooling such as GitHub Actions or GitLab.
  • Strong understanding of cloud-native hybrid architectures including single and multi-tenancy, PaaS services, infrastructure automation, and scalable deployment practices.
  • Hands-on engineering experience in at least one enterprise-grade programming language (C#, Java, Python) and the ability to contribute directly when required.
  • Experience with observability platforms, SRE practices, telemetry pipelines, dashboards, and alerting systems.
  • Significant experience in Azure or another major cloud provider, with strong knowledge of modern cloud services, identity, networking fundamentals, and environment configuration.
  • Experience building internal developer platforms, platform tooling, or standardized release frameworks across multiple product teams.
  • Strong understanding of modern DevOps and SRE principles, including incident response, post-mortems, automation, SLIs/SLOs, and resilience engineering.
  • Familiarity with secure-by-design engineering practices and integrating security controls into CI/CD and cloud platform workflows.
  • Demonstrated experience leading complex cloud, platform, or modernization initiatives in a fast-paced SaaS environment.
  • Ability to evaluate requirements, recommend pragmatic solutions, and drive cross-team outcomes.
  • Strong analytical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills, with a bias for automation and continuous improvement.
Benefits
  • StarCompliance Background Checks
  • Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
CI/CD pipelinesAzure DevOpsC#JavaPythoncloud-native architecturesinfrastructure automationobservability platformsSRE practicestelemetry pipelines
Soft skills
interpersonal skillscommunication skillscoachingmentoringinfluencinganalytical skillsdiagnostic skillstroubleshooting skillscontinuous improvementleadership