Emergent Software
Director of Platform Engineering
Remote Platform Engineering Director role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJul 2, 2026
Eligible countries2 accepted countries
Seniority signalLead
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
GeorgiaUSA
Role overview
Director of Platform Engineering
Requirements and responsibilities
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Platform Architecture & Developer Experience
- Own the developer experience across tooling, AI integration, CI/CD, and governance
- Set platform standards to improve speed, quality, and consistency
- Drive adoption of AI‑native SDLC practices and improve engineering velocity
- Lead architecture for shared infrastructure, observability, deployment, and APIs
Team Leadership
- Build and lead the Platform Engineering team
- Develop talent and foster a culture of reliability, automation, and craftsmanship
- Represent Platform Engineering across Product, IT, and executive leadership
- Partner with engineering leadership on long-term technology strategy
Reliability & Operations
- Own platform reliability, including SLOs, on-call, and incident management
- Define observability and alerting standards across systems
- Align with IT on boundaries between platform, infrastructure, and security
Innovation
- Evaluate and implement tools and practices to improve productivity
- Drive AI engineering transformation, including AI-assisted development and testing
- Advise on platform strategy, architecture, and technical diligence
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE leadership roles
- Demonstrated experience building or scaling a platform engineering function, from establishing standards through growing a team
- Strong command of cloud infrastructure (AWS primary, GCP secondary), CI/CD pipelines, and modern deployment practices
- Hands-on experience with observability tooling (DataDog, CloudWatch, PagerDuty, or equivalent)
- Experience leading and developing engineering teams — hiring, mentoring, and setting technical direction
- Strong communicator who is comfortable translating platform strategy for non-technical audiences and making the case for investment
- Proven track record of shipping: you hold teams accountable for delivery and know how to unblock them
Nice to Haves
- Experience at a PE-backed or high-growth SaaS company
- Familiarity with multi-product or multi-brand engineering environments
- Hands-on experience with AI-native development tooling, agentic SDLC, or AI-assisted engineering workflows
- Background in or familiarity with wealth management, financial services, or regulated industry software
- Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol), API platform design, or developer platform strategy
- Familiarity with GitHub Actions, Terraform or IaC tooling, and container orchestration (ECS, EKS)
- Experience running or contributing to an engineering M&A integration
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