Engineering Leader (Platform)

TL;DR

Engineering Leader (Platform): Leading the platform engineering organization across infrastructure, data, developer experience, and AI tooling with an accent on strategic architectural trade-offs and manager development. Focus on building paved roads for internal engineers, driving AI-native development practices, and ensuring system reliability at scale.

Location: Remote (Global), as long as you are willing to have significant hours overlap with one of the Americas time zones.

Salary: $204,000 – $280,000 (USD) for US-based candidates

Company

hirify.global is an educational communication and learning platform used in the majority of U.S. schools to connect teachers, children, and families.

What you will do

• Own the Platform organization's company-level objectives and technical roadmap, balancing infrastructure, data, DevEx, and AI tooling.
• Manage and coach engineering managers, driving them from baseline performance to excellence through clear feedback and growth plans.
• Define build-vs-buy strategies and make high-level architecture trade-offs to optimize how the engineering org ships code.
• Establish "paved roads" and golden paths to increase developer productivity and earned adoption.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Security, and Ops to align platform capabilities with company priorities.
• Take accountability for SLAs, SLOs, and incident response across the platform surface.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience managing managers (direct reports must be people managers).
• 10+ years of total experience in technical roles with a strong history as an individual contributor.
• Proven track record of owning and delivering measurable outcomes in platform, infrastructure, or data productivity areas.
• Experience building and evolving platform engineering practices across multiple teams.
• Excellent written communication skills for articulating strategy and trade-offs.
• Daily usage of LLM-based tools and a drive to push teams toward AI-native workflows.

Nice to have

• Experience running infrastructure or AI platforms at meaningful scale.
• Experience leading remote-first, distributed engineering teams.
• Proven success in building internal developer platforms (IDPs) that were genuinely adopted.
• An existing network of high-quality platform and infrastructure engineering talent.

Culture & Benefits

• High-talent-density environment valuing ownership, speed, and thoughtful decision-making.
• Culture of "Candor > Harmony," emphasizing early and direct feedback.
• Distributed company structure allowing for global hiring.
• Commitment to equal employment opportunity and inclusivity.