VP, Product Platform & Engineering

Overview:

We are seeking a Vice President of Product & Platform Engineering to lead the strategy, architecture, and delivery of the foundational technology platforms that power our products and product operating model. This leader will own infrastructure architecture, platform architecture, application architecture, and DevOps, while enabling high-performing product squads/trios to rapidly build, deploy, and scale customer-facing solutions. The VP will be responsible for building a scalable, secure, and developer-friendly platform ecosystem that accelerates product innovation while ensuring reliability, performance, and operational excellence. This role requires a hands-on technical executive who can bridge product strategy, engineering execution, and platform enablement, ensuring that engineering teams have the architecture, tooling, and infrastructure necessary to move quickly and safely.

Responsibilities:

Platform & Infrastructure Strategy

• Define and lead the long-term platform engineering strategy supporting the organization’s product roadmap and growth.
• Own the architecture and delivery of core platform capabilities, including infrastructure, developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and shared services.
• Establish a scalable, resilient cloud architecture and infrastructure foundation.
• Drive adoption of modern platform engineering practices such as internal developer platforms, platform-as-a-product, and self-service infrastructure.

Architecture Leadership

• Own enterprise-level application and platform architecture.
• Define standards for system design, microservices architecture, APIs, and data architecture.
• Ensure platforms and services are designed for scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to ensure architectural alignment across product squads.

Product Operating Model Enablement

• Enable the organization’s product squad/trio operating model by providing shared platform services, architecture frameworks, and developer tooling.
• Partner closely with Product Management, Product Design, and Engineering leaders to ensure squads can build and deploy quickly without reinventing core capabilities.
• Ensure teams have access to reusable components, APIs, and platform capabilities that accelerate delivery.

DevOps & Engineering Enablement

• Own DevOps strategy, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering productivity tooling.
• Drive improvements in developer experience, release velocity, and system reliability.
• Lead adoption of observability, monitoring, and incident management practices.
• Build a culture of automation, reliability engineering, and continuous improvement.

Reliability, Security, & Scalability

• Ensure platform and infrastructure systems meet high standards of uptime, security, and compliance.
• Partner with security and compliance teams to embed secure-by-design engineering practices.
• Establish and maintain SRE and operational excellence practices.

Leadership & Organizational Development

Build and lead high-performing teams across:

• Platform Engineering
• Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering
• DevOps / SRE
• Architecture
• Mentor engineering leaders and grow technical leadership across the organization.
• Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous learning.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Partner closely with:

• Product leadership
• Engineering leadership
• Security & compliance teams
• Data & analytics teams
• Act as a key technical voice in strategic technology decisions.

Qualifications:

Experience

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering and platform/infrastructure leadership.
• 5+ years leading large-scale engineering or platform organizations.
• Experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms and distributed systems.
• Proven experience supporting product operating models with autonomous squads or teams.
• Experience leading DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering transformations.

Technical Expertise

Strong experience with:

• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Microservices and distributed architectures
• Infrastructure-as-Code and automation
• CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices
• Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Observability, monitoring, and reliability engineering
• API platforms and service architectures

Leadership Traits

• Strategic thinker with the ability to translate business goals into technical strategy.
• Strong communicator capable of aligning technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Track record of building high-performing engineering organizations.
• Passion for developer experience and engineering productivity.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced product-driven environments.

Preferred Experience

• Experience supporting SaaS or large-scale digital platforms.
• Experience implementing platform engineering or internal developer platforms.
• Experience modernizing legacy systems to cloud-native architectures.
• Familiarity with product-led development models and agile squads.

This position is not eligible for sponsorship now or in the future and you must be locally located and comfortable commuting into office.