VP of Platform Engineering

Role Overview

• Own the strategy and execution for cloud modernization, including re-platforming legacy systems, standardizing deployment patterns, and improving scalability and resilience
• Build and evolve core platform capabilities such as CI/CD, infrastructure automation, environment management, and service tooling
• Drive architectural consistency across a growing B2B SaaS platform while enabling team autonomy
• Establish and lead a Shared Services engineering team responsible for foundational platform services, focusing initially on identity, authentication, and authorization
• Define ownership boundaries between shared services and application teams, emphasizing enablement over control
• Partner closely with product and application engineering teams to drive adoption of shared services through strong APIs, documentation, tooling, and developer experience
• Treat shared services as internal products: define roadmaps, SLAs, reliability expectations, and success metrics
• Establish reliability engineering practices including SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, incident response, postmortems, and capacity planning
• Improve observability and operational readiness through monitoring, alerting, tracing, and runbooks
• Work with application teams to improve operability, resilience, and production readiness through better design patterns and automation
• Lead and grow teams across platform engineering, shared services, and DevOps/SRE
• Build a performance-oriented culture rooted in learning, coaching, and accountability
• Define and track platform success metrics such as reliability, developer satisfaction, delivery speed, and operational efficiency
• Partner with Engineering, Product, and Architecture leadership to align platform investments with business outcomes

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience building and leading platform engineering teams in modern B2B SaaS environments
• Proven success leading leaders (engineering managers, staff/principal engineers)
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and operating production SaaS systems at scale
• Experience building shared services or platform teams (identity, auth, platform APIs, infrastructure services)
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and internal developer platforms
• Demonstrated experience establishing SRE practices and improving reliability outcomes
• Comfortable owning operational maturity, on-call models, and incident management processes
• Experience modernizing identity and authentication systems (SSO, OAuth/OIDC, RBAC/ABAC) is nice to have
• Background in platform product management or internal tooling is nice to have
• FinOps or cloud cost-optimization experience is nice to have

Tech Stack

• Cloud

Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits Including health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with company match
• generous paid time off to support your well-being
• Flexible Work Environment Whether remote, hybrid, or in-office