Senior Director of Platform Engineering

Join Altana as the Senior Director of Platform Engineering, where you will lead a multidisciplinary organization responsible for cloud engineering, developer experience, site reliability, and DevSecOps/release engineering. You will set the technical strategy, build and develop the team, and drive an AI-first, agent-first transformation of the software development lifecycle. Your success will be measured by the reliability and cost-efficiency of our platforms, the velocity and happiness of every engineer who depends on them, and how effectively Altana adopts AI across the development lifecycle.

• Lead and manage a multidisciplinary organization responsible for Cloud Engineering, Developer Experience, Site Reliability, and DevSecOps/Release Engineering.
• Set the technical strategy for Platform Engineering, ensuring the team stays focused on high-leverage work while advancing long-term architectural goals.
• Drive an AI-first, agent-first transformation of the software development lifecycle, making AI coding harnesses and agents reliable, governed, first-class participants in how Altana writes, reviews, tests, and ships code.
• A proven track record of driving developer experience and developer productivity across an organization — you can point to concrete before/after outcomes (build times, PR cycle time, deployment frequency, reliability) from initiatives you led
• Experience designing tooling and patterns that work across multiple clouds or isolated / air-gapped and compliance-constrained environments (FedRAMP, SOC 2, or similar) is a strong plus
• Direct, hands-on experience with AI-assisted and agentic development — AI coding harnesses, agent-first / AI-first workflows, and coding agents — and clear, well-formed opinions about how they change code review, testing, pipeline design, and engineering org structure
• Production experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (Terraform / OpenTofu)
• A track record tackling large-scale infrastructure in support of fast-paced ML/AI-enabled products and services
• Deep expertise with CI/CD systems (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar) and a demonstrated ability to scale them, ideally in a monorepo at scale
• Strong software engineering fundamentals — you design well-architected systems and lead from the front, not just from the org chart
• You don’t hesitate to go to the dentist during the work day, but you’re also the person on your laptop working on the team’s hardest problems to relax
• Experience building, leading, and scaling best-in-class platform and/or developer experience organizations, ideally in a rapidly scaling environment, including leading managers and senior engineers
• 10+ years of real-world experience developing or managing complex engineering systems, with significant time spent owning developer experience, platform engineering, or the build/test/release pipeline end to end
• Strong sense of shared ownership, a collaborative disposition, and excellent written and verbal communication skills