Director of Platform Engineering

Overstory is a company dedicated to addressing the climate crisis through innovative technology. They are seeking a Director of Platform Engineering to lead their SRE, MLOps, and Platform teams, focusing on evolving their core engineering foundations to support rapid product development and customer demand.

Responsibilities:

• Own the platform strategy across Platform, MLOps, and SRE, aligning it with company and product goals
• Grow senior ICs (and eventually manages) across multiple teams, fostering strong technical leadership and healthy team cultures
• Define and evolve our platform vision, including developer experience, internal tooling, CI/CD, infrastructure, observability, and reliability standards
• Oversee MLOps systems that support model development, training, deployment, monitoring, and governance in production
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, ML, Data, Security, and Compliance to ensure the platform meets current and future needs
• Balance speed and stability, making thoughtful tradeoffs between innovation, cost, reliability, and operational excellence
• Set metrics and accountability for platform performance, reliability, and developer productivity

Requirements:

• 10+ years experience leading platform, infrastructure, or reliability teams in a scaling startup environment, including navigating ambiguity, rapid growth, and the transition from early-stage systems to more mature, repeatable platforms
• Strong understanding of cloud-native infrastructure (GCP strongly preferred), Kubernetes, CI/CD, and modern DevOps practices
• Experience supporting machine learning systems in production, including model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management
• A track record of building reliable, scalable systems used by fast-moving product teams
• Excellent people leadership skills — you know how to coach managers, grow talent, and build inclusive, high-performing teams
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence across org boundaries
• Experience in data- or ML-heavy products
• Experience with geospatial data, image processing or mapping technology