Senior Director, Platform Engineering

Signifyd is seeking a Head of Platform Engineering to set strategy, direction, and manage the Platform Engineering teams. This role involves creating a roadmap and introducing processes, metrics, and systems to ensure the team's success and alignment with the wider goals of the engineering team and business. The Platform Engineering division works closely with application engineers to foster a DevOps culture and provide the necessary tools for continuous deployment and observation of systems in production. The ideal candidate should have significant leadership experience in complex software engineering or technology organizations, a deep technical understanding of cloud platforms, and a commitment to operational excellence.

• Grow and lead multiple teams of highly-engaged managers and engineers by hiring, coaching, and instilling a sense of ownership and impact.
• Build and contribute to a team culture that achieves a well-designed system through a commitment to learning and continuous improvement.
• Lead the vision and roadmap for the Platform Engineering organization by working with your leads, teams and executive partners across the company.
• Clearly communicate technical concepts to non-technical internal stakeholders as well as customers.
• Lead and manage a globally distributed team; improve on and champion new processes to enable smooth collaboration across offices and time zones.
• Enable engineering teams to create systems that meet uptime and latency Service Level Objectives while operating in a continuous release environment.
• Oversee and optimize spending on cloud providers and other third-party software tools to ensure cost of goods sold targets are met.

• 7+ years of work experience in leading engineering teams with a deep technical understanding of cloud platforms
• Significant leadership experience in complex software engineering or technology organizations, ideally as a senior leader
• Commitment to operational excellence demonstrated by prior experience at a high-availability, continuous deployment company
• Past experience working with teams distributed across different locations and time zones
• Ability to grow and lead multiple teams of managers and engineers
• Strong hiring, coaching, and mentoring skills
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Experience in overseeing and optimizing spending on cloud providers and third-party software tools
• Familiarity with serverless and self-managed solutions, such as Kubernetes
• Practical experience running and managing cloud providers
• Strong commitment to learning and continuous improvement
• Ability to create systems that meet uptime and latency Service Level Objectives in a continuous release environment

• 4-day workweek
• Discretionary Time Off Policy (Unlimited!)
• Mental wellbeing resources
• Dedicated learning budget through Learnerbly
• 401K Match
• Stock Options
• Annual Performance Bonus or Commissions
• Paid Parental Leave (12 weeks)
• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Company Social Events
• Signifyd Swag