Engineering Leader, Platform Engineering

Remote. Posted 4 months ago

The role

You will lead the Platform engineering organization, owning infrastructure, data, developer experience, and AI tooling. You will manage engineering managers and set the technical roadmap and architecture trade-offs for the platform.

What you will do

Lead a multi-team Platform org
Own Platform's company-level objectives and the engineering plan
Translate company priorities into a platform roadmap
Manage build-vs-buy and architecture-level trade-offs
Coach engineering managers with feedback and growth plans
Drive AI-native development
Treat product engineering areas as customers
Build paved roads and golden paths
Take accountability for SLAs/SLOs and incident response
Support and drive architecture and systems design decisions

Required qualifications

2+ years managing managers, with direct reports who were themselves people managers
10+ years total in technical roles
Owned a platform, infrastructure, data, or developer-productivity area and delivered a measurable outcome
Built or evolved platform engineering practices across multiple teams
Hired, developed, and managed engineering managers
Comfortable making and defending build-vs-buy and architecture-level trade-offs
Embrace Candor > Harmony
Use LLM-based tools daily
Excellent written communicator

Nice to have

Experience running infrastructure, data, DevEx, or AI platforms at meaningful scale
Has built developer platforms that internal engineers genuinely adopted
Has used AI-native workflows to materially change how a team designs, ships, and operates, and/or has built AI tooling/platform for other engineers
Experience leading a remote-first, distributed engineering team
Brings a network of high-quality platform/infrastructure engineering talent

About the company

ClassDojo is a small, high-talent-density team building a communication network that connects teachers, children, and families. They are expanding into building learning experiences for kids everywhere.