Head of Platform

The role

The Head of Platform will build and lead the team providing the foundation for shipping and operating software. This includes internal platform, infrastructure foundations, reliability practices, and security-by-default capabilities. The role also covers specialized infrastructure for ML/AI capabilities and supporting agentic development.

What you will do

• Build and lead the Platform function including SRE, DevEx, Infrastructure, and Security enablement
• Set a clear roadmap and manage prioritisation and trade-offs
• Create the default path for engineers to build, test, deploy, and operate services
• Drive reliability foundations including observability, alerting, incident response, and SLO/error budget practices
• Ensure cloud and Kubernetes foundations are scalable, secure, and maintainable using IaC and automation
• Build the platform for foundational models including GPU/TPU provisioning, training orchestration, and model serving
• Design machine-consumable golden paths to support agentic development
• Partner with security/compliance to implement secure-by-default patterns
• Establish FinOps-style visibility and deliver cost optimisations
• Collaborate with Product/Engineering leadership to influence architectural direction

Required qualifications

• Proven experience leading a platform, infrastructure, or SRE function
• Strong grounding in SRE practices
• Deep familiarity with running production workloads on a major cloud and Kubernetes
• Hands-on expertise with IaC and GitOps workflows
• Experience defining golden paths and driving developer adoption
• Practical experience embedding security into platforms and SDLC
• Solid CS and system engineering fundamentals
• Familiarity with the AI infrastructure stack
• Ability to design platforms for agentic-native use
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Ability to create clarity in ambiguity and deliver outcomes

Nice to have

• Experience scaling platform practices through rapid growth
• Familiarity with GCP, ArgoCD, GitLab CI, Kafka, Postgres
• Experience building internal developer platforms, service frameworks, or multi-tenant platform capabilities
• Experience helping achieve or maintain compliance like SOC2/ISO

Benefits

• High trust, low process and no bureaucracy
• Competitive base salary + equity
• Flexible working hours
• Two days per week of Focus Days with zero meetings
• Flexible leave policy
• Offices with standing desks, healthy snacks, quality coffee, and drinks on tap
• Learning opportunities via Lunch n Learns and Fireside chats
• Quarterly season openers and annual global offsite
• Monthly team lunches, happy hours and more
• Parental leave and flexible return to work
• Payroll Giving
• Relocation allowance for those moving to Partly HQ

About the company

Partly is building the infrastructure for anyone to repair anything using frontier AI. The company is founded by ex-Rocket Lab engineers and has raised a $50m Series B.