VP, Platform Engineering

Tribeca Venture Partners is seeking a highly strategic, experienced, and transformative Vice President of Platform Engineering. In this critical leadership role, you will be responsible for crafting and executing a comprehensive technology vision while overseeing multiple engineering pillars to ensure scalable and reliable systems.

Responsibilities:

• Lead our infrastructure, cloud operations, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategy and teams to ensure scalable, fault tolerant, highly available systems
• Oversee the teams building and maintaining core foundational services, including our search services (built on Elasticsearch), identity management, and core frameworks
• Drive the strategy for comprehensive quality assurance, automated testing frameworks, and overall software quality standards
• Empower our product engineering teams by leading DevOps, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, integrating AI-driven developer tools, and championing overall developer enablement
• Own, author, and drive a multi-year technology roadmap for the platform that supports ACV’s scaling business needs
• Partner closely with the Executive Team, Senior Leadership and cross-functional leaders to ensure platform capabilities align with product roadmaps and company goals
• Lead, mentor, and scale a large organization of engineers, managing through your team (including Directors and Senior Engineering Managers) to foster a high-performance culture
• Introduce and enforce proven operational program frameworks to drive improvement of multiple engineering disciplines across the organization
• Take aggressive ownership of our cloud footprint, implementing strict cost management, forecasting, and optimization practices
• Define and enforce rigorous engineering standards. Implement robust observability and monitoring solutions to ensure system health and rapid incident resolution
• Champion a security-first and reliability-first mindset, closing existing gaps and building resilient architectures
• Drive a culture of extreme ownership and accountability across the organization including at the IC level, ensuring teams take pride in and responsibility for the services they build and operate
• Perform additional duties as assigned

Requirements:

• 15+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience, with proven tenure operating at the VP/Senior Leadership level in a large, global organization
• Experience managing multi-layered teams (managing Directors/Senior Managers)
• Proven track record of architecting and executing an AI-first engineering strategy
• Demonstrated success in embedding AI/ML capabilities into core platform services
• Experience automating complex infrastructure operations
• Championing the adoption of generative AI tools to exponentially accelerate developer velocity and overall engineering output
• Proven experience in successfully implementing frameworks to mature cloud management, cost controls, reliability, and security
• Deep understanding of modern infrastructure, cloud-native architectures, and related principles
• Forward-thinking perspective on Developer Experience, including the integration of AI tools and modern enablement strategies to accelerate engineering velocity
• Demonstrated collaborative savviness and emotional intelligence to effectively influence, negotiate, and drive consensus among peer VPs and senior executives