Director, IT Platform Engineering

Overview

Lead and scale a Platform Engineering organization, driving global technology, security, and infrastructure initiatives as a hands-on leader.

What you'll do

• Provide hands-on technical leadership, driving engineering execution and leading by example across global teams.
• Hire, mentor, and retain a high-performing, diverse team of platform and infrastructure software engineers.
• Build and scale a secure platform across cloud, compute, storage, and networking layers.
• Act as "Customer 0" and the first customer for internal tools, ensuring the team validates, hardens, and directly influences the roadmap for all security and infrastructure products.
• Partner with Product teams to deliver exceptional platform engineering outcomes and seamless software engineering tool integration.
• Implement comprehensive service monitoring across all compute, storage, networking, and application layers to ensure uptime and security compliance.
• Define and manage Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for availability, performance, and automation.
• Identify process, security, and product gaps early, driving rapid resolution and operational excellence.

What you'll need

• 15+ years of hands-on technical software engineering and architecture experience alongside proven team management.
• Experience building and scaling platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, or enterprise security organizations.
• Deep technical expertise in cloud, compute, storage, and networking technologies.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for automation and foundational security.
• Experience building, scaling, and running production operations 24x7 for heterogeneous applications in a cloud environment.
• A motivated, problem-solving mindset focused on customer service and high-quality technical implementation.
• Ability to nurture and support a strong operations culture: customer/service focus excellent technology; high quality implementations; self-motivated innovation and problem-solving.

Nice to have

• Extensive experience on architecture design of large scale data platforms, machine learning, analytics, and data-driven applications.
• Advanced architectural design experience with large-scale infrastructure products and enterprise security frameworks.
• Proven success operating as the first customer/Customer 0 to validate software and security solutions before market release.
• Strong background in DevSecOps, CI/CD, and security practices within PaaS environments.
• Experience establishing metrics-based process and platform improvements.

Details

• Location: Office, Bangalore, India (Bagmane Tech Park).
• Work mode: most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.