Plaud

Head of Platform Engineering

Palo Alto, CA, Remote. Posted 4 days ago

The role

You will define and drive the strategy for the Platform Engineering organization. You will lead teams in the US and Asia to build shared services including identity, APIs, billing, and file storage.

What you will do

  • Define and drive the strategy for the Platform Engineering organization
  • Lead teams owning sign-in, access control, integrations, public API, billing, file storage, app framework, internal tools, and search
  • Build enterprise foundations like SSO, SCIM, fine-grained permissions, audit, and regional data residency
  • Run Platform as a product with clear internal customers and documented interfaces
  • Gather requests from product teams and publish a Platform roadmap
  • Set engineering standards for shared systems
  • Lead a distributed team through written specs and a fixed daily overlap
  • Own reliability, SLOs and on-call for every Platform service
  • Hire, mentor and grow senior engineers and team leads

Required qualifications

  • 12+ years of software engineering experience
  • 5+ years leading platform or infrastructure-adjacent teams of 15+ engineers
  • Proven track record building identity, permissions or API platforms for enterprise SaaS
  • Experience running an internal platform as a product
  • Demonstrated success leading distributed teams across the US and Asia
  • Deep backend expertise in Go, Java or similar
  • Strong distributed systems and cloud-native architecture skills (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes)
  • Experience building under SOC 2, GDPR and HIPAA controls and supporting audits
  • Routinely uses AI tools in daily work

Nice to have

  • Experience with billing and entitlement systems (Stripe, Metronome or similar)
  • Recognized technical influence through open-source contributions, conference talks or technical publications

Benefits

  • Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
  • Access to best-in-class AI tools including Gemini, Claude Code, and other frontier AI systems
  • Choice of top-spec laptops, high-performance workstation setups, and cutting-edge Plaud devices
  • Annual company offsites and team events

About the company

Plaud is a San Francisco-based company building the real-world AI interface for professionals. It is a bootstrapped, profitable company with a $300M revenue run rate.