Senior Director, Developer Experience and Platform Engineering

Role Overview

This role requires a leader who brings deep hands-on engineering experience to platform strategy, architectural decision-making, and technical leadership at enterprise scale. The Senior Director, Developer Experience and Platform Engineering brings technical credibility, architectural judgment, and engineering leadership to ensure Developer Experience is a first-class engineering discipline embedded across the software lifecycle.

What You Will Do

Own the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for Developer Experience platforms, including developer portals, CI/CD pipelines, container-based developer and runtime environments, API platforms, and observability and reliability tooling. Provide deep technical leadership across polyglot engineering environments and apply strong understanding of multiple programming paradigms.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role emphasizes hands-on engineering experience, platform ownership, and technical decision-making, while also requiring strong leadership, collaboration, and strategic alignment across the organization. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of multiple programming paradigms and experience with polyglot engineering environments.

Requirements

- Deep hands-on engineering experience - Technical credibility and architectural judgment - Strong leadership and collaboration skills - Experience with polyglot engineering environments - Strong understanding of multiple programming paradigms Benefits

- Competitive salary - Equity - Health insurance - Retirement plan - Paid time off - Wellness programs

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