Director of Platform Engineering
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Lead the platform engineering team to deliver reliable, automated cloud-native and appliance deployments. Drive technical strategy, hiring, and operational excellence across Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, observability, and cloud tooling.
Responsibilities:
- Run 1:1s, set goals, lead performance cycles, and actively invest in the growth and well-being of every engineer on your team
- Build a culture of ownership & technical excellence
- Hire externally and/or promote internally to build leadership capacity across the three verticals
- Own the platform roadmap across all three verticals, in close collaboration with the VP and the Technical Product Manager
- Translate company-level priorities into clear product goals and team commitments
- Make trade-offs explicit — between reliability, velocity, and technical debt — and communicate them clearly to stakeholders
- Partner with the Technical Product Manager to ensure product-led delivery is well-structured, tracked, and unblocked
- Own SLAs and operational reliability for Filigran Cloud and SaaS deployments
- Drive continuous improvement of incident response, on-call practices, and post-mortem culture
- Ensure deployment artifacts (Helm, Docker Compose, Appliance) meet quality, security, and usability standards across all supported targets
- Stay close enough to the work to earn engineers' trust, spot risks early, and guide key architectural decisions
- Set and uphold engineering standards across Kubernetes, IaC (Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD, observability, and cloud-native tooling (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Promote automation-first, as-code principles across all three product areas
- Promote AI-first principle — beginning with review/evaluation of code produced & changes, but also as a tool to brainstorm or improve velocity
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering
- 3+ years in an engineering leadership role, managing engineers directly, with experience building or evolving team structures
- Demonstrated ability to hire, grow, and retain senior engineers and emerging leaders
- Strong technical credibility in at least two of: bare-metal/Kubernetes infrastructure, cloud-native deployments (AWS/Azure/GCP), observability stacks, IaC (Terraform, Ansible), or packaging/distribution (Helm, Docker)
- Comfortable operating in fast paced environments with a lot of context switches
- High sense of ownership
- Excellent communication: able to align engineers, TPM, and executives with equal clarity
- Remote-first mindset; based in Europe with a maximum ±2h gap from CET
- Experience with Agentic AI for AI-assisted software development, and automation of daily repetitive tasks on documentation, management, organizational topics.
- Fluent in English and French
Benefits:
- Competitive pay + equity - everyone shares in our success
- Remote-first, flexible, and balanced - work that fits your life
- Your setup, your choice - pick the gear that works for you
- Twice-a-year gatherings - we meet in person for regional and global offsites to connect, collaborate, and strengthen our culture beyond the screen
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