Director of Engineering, Internal Platforms & Developer Experience

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