CollectorsRemote
Director of Engineering, Internal Platforms & Developer Experience
United States of America
Full Time
3 days ago
$212,000 - $300,000 USD
No H1B
Key skills
Software engineeringInfrastructure engineeringEngineering team managementCloud platformsContainer orchestrationCI/CD systemsInfrastructure-as-codeObservability stacksDeveloper experienceAI-assisted development toolsGovernance frameworks for AI adoptionCapacity planningCross-functional partnershipStrategic mindsetAILLMAWSAzureGCPTerraformK8sGitHub ActionsArgoCDGitHubCI/CDRisk Management
About this role
Collectors is the leading creator of innovative technology that provides value-added services for collectors worldwide. They are seeking a Director of Internal Platforms and Developer Experience to lead engineering teams responsible for infrastructure, developer experience, and AI enablement, ensuring their systems support the organization's growth and innovation.
Responsibilities:
- Define and drive the platform engineering strategy across infrastructure, developer experience, and AI enablement, ensuring alignment with broader organizational goals and technology roadmaps
- Lead and develop multiple engineering teams responsible for core infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, cloud services, and the internal developer platform, fostering a culture of reliability, ownership, and continuous improvement
- Own the vision for developer experience, ensuring internal teams have access to well-documented, self-service tooling and platforms that reduce friction and accelerate the path from code to production
- Establish and oversee AI enablement strategies, including the evaluation, integration, and governance of AI-assisted development tools and frameworks, ensuring teams can adopt AI capabilities responsibly and effectively
- Define guardrails and governance frameworks for AI adoption, partnering with security, legal, and compliance stakeholders to create policies that balance innovation velocity with risk management, data privacy, and responsible use
- Set standards for platform reliability, scalability, and security, driving investment in observability, incident response, infrastructure-as-code, and capacity planning to support the organization's growth
- Partner cross-functionally with product engineering, security, data, and architecture leaders to ensure platform capabilities meet current and emerging needs across the organization
- Champion a platform-as-a-product mindset, using internal feedback loops, adoption metrics, and developer satisfaction data to continuously iterate on the platforms and services your teams provide
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering
- 5+ years managing engineering teams
- 2+ years leading managers or multiple teams simultaneously
- Deeply technical with a strategic mindset
- Expert in modern infrastructure and platform tooling
- Hands-on experience across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Experience with container orchestration (k8s)
- Experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Crossplane)
- Experience with observability stacks
- Champion of developer experience
- Track record of building internal tooling and self-service platforms
- Fluent in the AI-assisted development landscape
- Understanding of AI coding assistants, code generation tools, and LLM-based development frameworks
- Governance-minded without being risk-averse
- Ability to design guardrails and policies around emerging technology
- Strong cross-functional partner
- Operationally excellent
- Experience managing cloud infrastructure budgets, vendor relationships, and capacity planning
- Effective communicator who can articulate platform strategy and technical trade-offs