Director of Platform Engineering

Role Overview

• Run 1:1s, set goals, lead performance cycles, and actively invest in the growth and well-being of every engineer on your team
• Build a culture of ownership & technical excellence
• Hire externally and/or promote internally to build leadership capacity across the three verticals
• Own the platform roadmap across all three verticals, in close collaboration with the VP and the Technical Product Manager
• Translate company-level priorities into clear product goals and team commitments
• Make trade-offs explicit — between reliability, velocity, and technical debt — and communicate them clearly to stakeholders
• Partner with the Technical Product Manager to ensure product-led delivery is well-structured, tracked, and unblocked
• Own SLAs and operational reliability for Filigran Cloud and SaaS deployments
• Drive continuous improvement of incident response, on-call practices, and post-mortem culture
• Ensure deployment artifacts (Helm, Docker Compose, Appliance) meet quality, security, and usability standards across all supported targets
• Stay close enough to the work to earn engineers' trust, spot risks early, and guide key architectural decisions
• Set and uphold engineering standards across Kubernetes, IaC (Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD, observability, and cloud-native tooling (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Promote automation-first, as-code principles across all three product areas
• Promote AI-first principle — beginning with review/evaluation of code produced & changes, but also as a tool to brainstorm or improve velocity

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering
• 3+ years in an engineering leadership role, managing engineers directly, with experience building or evolving team structures
• Demonstrated ability to hire, grow, and retain senior engineers and emerging leaders
• Strong technical credibility in at least two of: bare-metal/Kubernetes infrastructure, cloud-native deployments (AWS/Azure/GCP), observability stacks, IaC (Terraform, Ansible), or packaging/distribution (Helm, Docker)
• Comfortable operating in fast paced environments with a lot of context switches
• High sense of ownership
• Excellent communication: able to align engineers, TPM, and executives with equal clarity
• Remote-first mindset; based in Europe with a maximum ±2h gap from CET
• Experience with Agentic AI for AI-assisted software development, and automation of daily repetitive tasks on documentation, management, organizational topics.
• Fluent in English and French

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Docker
• Google Cloud Platform
• Kubernetes
• Terraform

Benefits

• Competitive pay + equity
• everyone shares in our success
• Remote-first, flexible, and balanced
• work that fits your life
• Your setup, your choice
• pick the gear that works for you
• Twice-a-year gatherings
• we meet in person for regional and global offsites to connect, collaborate, and strengthen our culture beyond the screen