VP of Platform Engineering

Tango

VP of Platform Engineering leading a dynamic team at Tango to modernize cloud platforms and establish shared services. Focusing on innovation and operational excellence in B2B SaaS environments.

Posted 4/22/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the strategy and execution for cloud modernization, including re-platforming legacy systems, standardizing deployment patterns, and improving scalability and resilience
Build and evolve core platform capabilities such as CI/CD, infrastructure automation, environment management, and service tooling
Drive architectural consistency across a growing B2B SaaS platform while enabling team autonomy
Establish and lead a Shared Services engineering team responsible for foundational platform services, focusing initially on identity, authentication, and authorization
Define ownership boundaries between shared services and application teams, emphasizing enablement over control
Partner closely with product and application engineering teams to drive adoption of shared services through strong APIs, documentation, tooling, and developer experience
Treat shared services as internal products: define roadmaps, SLAs, reliability expectations, and success metrics
Establish reliability engineering practices including SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, incident response, postmortems, and capacity planning
Improve observability and operational readiness through monitoring, alerting, tracing, and runbooks
Work with application teams to improve operability, resilience, and production readiness through better design patterns and automation
Lead and grow teams across platform engineering, shared services, and DevOps/SRE
Build a performance-oriented culture rooted in learning, coaching, and accountability
Define and track platform success metrics such as reliability, developer satisfaction, delivery speed, and operational efficiency
Partner with Engineering, Product, and Architecture leadership to align platform investments with business outcomes

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of experience building and leading platform engineering teams in modern B2B SaaS environments
Proven success leading leaders (engineering managers, staff/principal engineers)
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and operating production SaaS systems at scale
Experience building shared services or platform teams (identity, auth, platform APIs, infrastructure services)
Strong understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and internal developer platforms
Demonstrated experience establishing SRE practices and improving reliability outcomes
Comfortable owning operational maturity, on-call models, and incident management processes
Experience modernizing identity and authentication systems (SSO, OAuth/OIDC, RBAC/ABAC) is nice to have
Background in platform product management or internal tooling is nice to have
FinOps or cloud cost-optimization experience is nice to have

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive Benefits Including health, dental, and vision insurance
401(k) plan with company match
generous paid time off to support your well-being
Flexible Work Environment Whether remote, hybrid, or in-office

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud modernizationCI/CDinfrastructure automationre-platformingreliability engineeringmonitoringalertingincident managementidentity systemsauthentication systems

Soft Skills

leadershipteam autonomycoachingaccountabilitycollaborationcommunicationstrategic thinkingperformance-oriented cultureenablementoperational maturity