Director of Platform Engineering

Location: Remote from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, Estonia, France, Ireland, Portugal, Sweden, or Switzerland. Working hours must overlap with Europe (GMT/WET, CET, EET) or Eastern North America (NST, AST, EST).

Company

hirify.global uses AI and satellite imagery to identify vegetation risks near power lines, helping utilities prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and build a more resilient electrical grid.

What you will do

• Own the platform strategy across Platform, MLOps, and SRE, aligning it with company and product goals.
• Lead and grow senior individual contributors and, over time, managers across multiple teams.
• Define the platform vision covering developer experience, internal tooling, CI/CD, infrastructure, observability, and reliability standards.
• Oversee MLOps systems for model development, training, deployment, monitoring, and production governance.
• Partner with Product, ML, Data, Security, and Compliance teams to meet current and future platform needs.
• Set metrics and accountability for platform performance, reliability, and developer productivity while balancing speed, cost, and stability.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience leading platform, infrastructure, or reliability teams in a scaling startup environment.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and modern DevOps practices; GCP is strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting machine learning systems in production, including model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Track record of building reliable, scalable systems for fast-moving product teams and experience with data- or ML-heavy products.
• Strong people leadership, coaching, communication, and cross-functional influencing skills.
• Must be living and working in one of the listed countries and able to work within the specified European or Eastern North American time zones.

Nice to have

• Experience with geospatial data, image processing, or mapping technology.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible, autonomous, and collaborative remote working environment built on trust.
• Home office stipend, coworking budget, and ongoing education budget.
• Annual in-person team gathering and optional in-person collaboration.
• Mission-driven work focused on reducing wildfires, protecting natural resources, and addressing climate change.
• Inclusive culture centered on curiosity, diversity, care, trust, and climate action.