Director of Engineering, Platform
OVERVIEW
The growth successful startups experience is fueled by rapid development and iteration to find product-market fit. As demand increases, so do the number of engineers following this pattern and the amount of software and implementation patterns starts to increase. Most organizations recognize this as Technical Debt and start to look for common solutions they can share across engineering. This not only enables efficiency but it improves reliability as best practices can be embedded in frameworks and shared libraries or services. A Platform Engineering group exists to simplify and improve the safety of product development. The Director of Platform Engineering provides the vision and strategy for enabling this benefit.
ABOUT THE JOB
- Recruit and organize a team of world-class managers and engineers aligned on the vision of improving the scalability and reliability of the Instacart platform
- Create a strategy for how shared library or service needs from Engineering are identified, designed, and delivered
- Lead the development of frameworks in necessary languages for product development to use as a springboard with common concerns already abstracted away
- Partner with SRE on ownership of Instacart’s largest shared systems
- Facilitate key infrastructure technology decisions across the organization
- Develop the software strategy for scaling Instacart 10x
- Develop architectural reviews to connect technical decisions made across teams
ABOUT YOU
- You have led Platform Engineering teams in moments of rapid growth
- You are considered not only an excellent people leader but a strong technical thinker with an emphasis on discipline and quality
- You are comfortable working directly with stakeholders across Engineering to understand what needs to be built to support them.
- You recognize the nuance of needing teams to be autonomous but share some common infrastructure to accelerate velocity
- 5-10 years of people management experience