Director/Principle Engineer, Platform Engineering – TIP.AI Platform
About The Position
The Director, AI Platform Engineering is a senior technical role responsible for designing, building, and operating the scalable, resilient platform infrastructure that powers enterprise AI systems. The role functions as a principal engineer, architecting technical solutions, establishing platform standards, solving complex scalability, reliability, and performance challenges, and providing technical leadership and mentorship across engineering teams. The position calls for a hands-on, systems-oriented leader experienced in large-scale, cloud-native platforms supporting mission-critical AI, data, and automation workloads. The role works across architecture, reliability, developer productivity, and operational excellence to shape the TIP.AI platform’s technical direction and support its long-term roadmap. Marriott describes its headquarters work environment as generally hybrid, with regular in-office presence at the assigned location. The posting does not specify whether this particular position is HQ-based or otherwise identify its workplace type.
Requirements
- Deep experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong background in fault-tolerant, auto-recoverable software systems at scale.
- Proven expertise in reliability engineering, scalability, and performance optimization.
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong proficiency in infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD systems.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, mentor senior engineers, and set technical direction across teams.
- Must have bootstrapped or built at least one full-stack system delivered to real users.
- Excellent verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly articulate complex architectural decisions.
- Ability to produce and review extremely clean software documentation.
- Ability to communicate effectively asynchronously with remote team members across the globe.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting AI/ML, data platforms, or high-scale automation systems.
- Background in platform teams serving multiple internal product or engineering groups.
- Familiarity with security, privacy, and compliance requirements in large enterprises.
- Experience driving cost governance and efficiency for large-scale cloud platforms.
- Prior work in highly regulated or global enterprise environments.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the core TIP.AI platform architecture to be scalable, highly available, secure, and cost-efficient at enterprise scale.
- Establish and maintain reference architectures, design patterns, and engineering standards for platform services.
- Own platform reliability, including availability, performance, resiliency, and disaster recovery.
- Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for core platform services.
- Build and mature observability practices using metrics, logs, and traces.
- Partner with security teams to ensure platform designs meet enterprise security, privacy, and compliance requirements.
- Build internal platform capabilities and shared services that improve developer velocity and consistency.
- Establish CI/CD, deployment, and runtime patterns that enable safe, fast delivery at scale.
- Reduce application teams’ cognitive load by abstracting infrastructure complexity behind well-designed platform interfaces.
- Act as the principal technical authority for the TIP.AI Platform team.
- Mentor senior and staff-level engineers and raise technical standards across the organization.
- Influence without direct authority and partner with product, data, AI, and security leaders.
- Align platform capabilities with TIP.AI’s long-term roadmap in partnership with product, AI, and business leaders.
- Translate business and growth goals into scalable technical strategies.
Benefits
- 401(k) plan
- Stock purchase plan
- Discounts at Marriott properties
- Commuter benefits
- Employee assistance plan
- Childcare discounts
- Medical coverage for full-time positions
- Dental coverage for full-time positions
- Vision coverage for full-time positions
- Health care flexible spending account for full-time positions
- Dependent care flexible spending account for full-time positions
- Life insurance for full-time positions
- Disability insurance for full-time positions
- Accident insurance for full-time positions
- Adoption expense reimbursements for full-time positions
- Paid parental leave for full-time positions
- Educational assistance for full-time positions
- Washington employees accrue paid sick leave and 0.077 PTO balance for every hour worked, and are eligible for a minimum of 9 holidays annually.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
