Director of Platform Engineering (Remote)

FMG•Sandy, UT

6d•$175,000 - $175,000•Remote

About The Position

FMG is investing in the Platform Engineering function that will shape how our engineering organization builds software over the next several years. We are hiring a Director of Platform Engineering to own the architecture of our developer experience — the tooling standards, AI harness, deployment pipelines, and governance model that determines how our engineers work. This role is the foundation for an AI-native engineering organization. You will report to the SVP of Engineering and lead a growing cross-platform team. This is an omniplatform role across all flagship brands. You will be a peer to our product-line Engineering Directors and partner closely with Product, IT, and executive leadership to oversee all SaaS platforms and evolve them toward the AI era, including AI platforming and an AI SDLC. Our ideal candidate is a technical leader who has built platform engineering functions from the ground up, operates at the intersection of infrastructure, developer tooling, and reliability engineering, and is energized by the transition to AI-native software development. You are equally comfortable writing technical strategy for the board and jumping into a CI/CD pipeline to solve a problem.

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE leadership roles
Demonstrated experience building or scaling a platform engineering function — from establishing standards through growing a team
Strong command of cloud infrastructure (AWS primary, GCP secondary), CI/CD pipelines, and modern deployment practices
Hands-on experience with observability tooling (DataDog, CloudWatch, PagerDuty, or equivalent)
Experience leading and developing engineering teams — hiring, mentoring, and setting technical direction
Strong communicator — comfortable translating platform strategy for non-technical audiences and making the case for investment
Proven track record of shipping: you hold teams accountable for delivery and know how to unblock them
Access to a private & secure workspace, free from distractions
Accessible during the assigned work schedule for regular duties and responsibilities as outlined by the supervisor
An internet connection with speeds of 5 Megabits down / 3 Megabits up (5mbps/3mbps)

Nice To Haves

Experience at a PE-backed or high-growth SaaS company
Familiarity with multi-product or multi-brand engineering environments
Hands-on experience with AI-native development tooling, agentic SDLC, or AI-assisted engineering workflows
Background in or familiarity with wealth management, financial services, or regulated industry software
Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol), API platform design, or developer platform strategy
Familiarity with GitHub Actions, Terraform or IaC tooling, and container orchestration (ECS, EKS)
Experience running or contributing to an engineering M&A integration

Responsibilities

Own and evolve the developer experience across all product engineering teams: tooling standards, AI harness integration, deployment pipelines, and governance model
Define and enforce platform engineering standards that enable engineering teams to ship faster and at a higher quality bar
Drive adoption of AI-native SDLC practices across the organization, partnering with engineering managers to measure and improve development velocity
Lead architectural decisions for shared platform infrastructure, including observability, deployment, and API standards
Build and lead the Platform Engineering team, including a Senior Platform Engineer and SRE/DevOps Lead
Develop engineering talent and establish the culture of the platform function — reliability, craftsmanship, automation-first thinking
Represent Platform Engineering in cross-functional forums with Product, IT, and executive leadership
Partner with the SVP and Head of Engineering on long-term technology strategy
Own the reliability posture of the platform: uptime SLOs, on-call frameworks, incident response standards, and postmortem culture
Establish telemetry, observability, and alerting standards across all product lines (DataDog, CloudWatch, PagerDuty)
Collaborate with IT on the clean boundary between Engineering-owned reliability functions and IT-owned cloud infrastructure, security, and governance
Evaluate and champion new tooling, frameworks, and practices that improve engineering productivity
Be an active participant in FMG's AI engineering transformation — from agentic development tools to AI-assisted QA and testing
Serve as a technical thought partner to the SVP and Head of Engineering on platform bets, M&A technical diligence, and architecture direction

Benefits

Generous paid holiday schedule, including a full week off for our Winter Holiday Shutdown
Comprehensive paid time off policies cover vacation, sick days, parental leave, and bereavement leave
Medical with $0 co-pay Telehealth plan
Dental
Vision
Health Savings Account (HSA) with generous employer contributions
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
Company-paid Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) coverage
Company-paid Short & Long Term Disability coverage
Company-paid Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Matching 401(k) with immediate full vesting
On Demand Pay - allows access to a portion of your earned wages prior to the payday with same day deposit
Internet & Gym Reimbursement
Work computer equipment provided