Senior Director, Engineering, Platform Infrastructure

Role Overview

• Platform Strategy & Architecture: Define and execute the platform infrastructure strategy, evolving cloud-native, distributed systems to ensure scalability, reliability, and strong developer experience through a platform-as-a-product mindset.
• Engineering Leadership & Execution: Lead and scale a high-performing engineering organization, driving predictable delivery, strong execution practices, and cross-functional alignment across Product, Design, Security, and Data.
• Developer Experience & Productivity: Build self-service platform capabilities and invest in tooling (CI/CD, internal platforms) to improve developer productivity and accelerate time-to-market.
• Reliability, DevOps & Operational Excellence: Champion DevOps and SRE practices, ensuring high system availability, observability, and continuous improvement in incident management and operational processes.
• AI-Driven Infrastructure & Automation: Leverage AI/ML and automation to enhance infrastructure efficiency, reliability, and proactive operations.
• Security, Compliance & Risk Management: Ensure robust security, privacy, and compliance standards through best practices, audits, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Vendor & Cost Management: Manage vendor partnerships while driving cost optimization, capacity planning, and efficient resource utilization.
• Organizational Leadership & Impact: Contribute to company-wide leadership initiatives, including workforce planning and organizational design, while defining and tracking key platform success metrics.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures (AWS, GCP, or Azure), distributed systems, and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Kubernetes).
• Proven experience leading and scaling platform or infrastructure engineering teams in high-growth or complex environments.
• Strong track record of implementing DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering practices at scale.
• Experience building internal platforms and developer tooling that significantly improve productivity and reliability.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to balance long-term vision and hands-on execution.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence at executive levels.
• Experience managing large-scale systems with high availability, security, and compliance requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to drive measurable outcomes (e.g., uptime, deployment frequency, MTTR, cost optimization).

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Google Cloud Platform
• Kubernetes
• Terraform

Benefits

• Health, Dental, Vision benefits start on your first day at Spring. You and your dependents also receive access to One Medical accounts HSA and FSA plans are also available, with Spring contributing up to $1K for HSAs, depending on your plan type.
• Employer sponsored 401(k) match of up to 2% for retirement planning
• A yearly allotment of no cost visits to the Spring Health network of therapists, coaches, and medication management providers for you and your dependents.
• We offer competitive paid time off policies including vacation, sick leave and company holidays.
• At 6 months tenure with Spring, we offer parental leave of 18 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.
• Access to Noom, a weight management program—based in psychology, that’s tailored to your unique needs and goals.
• Access to fertility care support through Carrot, in addition to $4,000 reimbursement for related fertility expenses.
• Access to Wellhub, which connects employees to the best options for fitness, mindfulness, nutrition, and sleep in one subscription
• Access to BrightHorizons, which provides sponsored child care, back-up care, and elder care
• Up to $1,000 Professional Development Reimbursement a year.
• $200 per year donation matching to support your favorite causes.