111 director platform engineering jobs at 78 companies in Berkeley, CA

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Founding Backend / Infra Engineer
Cupertino, CA, US
$160k-$300k/yr On-SiteFull Time
HiringCafe
HiringCafe: Building a 100× better job search engine to take on Indeed and LinkedIn.
Own the crawlers, pipelines, and infrastructure powering a real-time job search engine. Strong Node.js and Python fundamentals; bonus points for security and reverse-engineering chops.
Node.js, Python, Elasticsearch, Redis
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Senior Director, Platform Engineering
Brooklyn or San Francisco or Boston or Washington
$295k-$345k/yr RemoteFull Time
Altana
Altana: AI-powered visibility and risk management for global supply chains.
10+ YOE10+ years building and scaling platform/devex organizations; deep experience with cloud, CI/CD, monorepo, SRE, and AI-assisted/agentic development; proven people leadership and strategic platform ownership.
Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Buildkite, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenTofu
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Director AI Engineering Platform
United States or Southfield or San Francisco or Seattle or Boston or New York City or Los Angeles or San Diego
$218k-$319k/yr RemoteFull Time
Credit Acceptance
Credit AcceptanceNASDAQ: CACC: Provides vehicle financing programs for subprime credit consumers.
12+ YOE5+ MgmtBS in CS/Engineering (MS preferred), 12+ years software engineering experience with platform/infrastructure focus, 5+ years managing managers, experience delivering enterprise-scale platform capabilities and partnering with AI/ML orgs.
AWS, Microsoft, Databricks, LiteLLM, Portkey, Traefik AI Gateway, MCP, Expressway, LLM APIs, CI/CD, FinOps, AI gateway
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Director, Data Platform Engineering
San Francisco, California, United States
$232k-$304k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Lila Sciences
Lila Sciences: Develops an AI platform for autonomous scientific research and discovery.
12+ YOE5+ Mgmt12+ years software development in data processing at scale; 5+ years leading senior engineers; experience with AWS/GCP primitives; petabyte-scale data platforms; Python; Kubernetes; IaC; containerized deployments.
Python, Kubernetes, Kafka, Flink, DuckDB, ClickHouse, S3, BigQuery, Terraform, Airflow
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Director, Core Runtime & Platform Engineering
Palo Alto, California, United States
HybridFull Time
Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor CompanyNYSE: F: Designs, manufactures, and sells cars, trucks, and SUVs.
10+ YOE5+ MgmtBachelor's in CS/EE or related, 10+ years in software/platform/infrastructure engineering, 5+ years leading engineering teams; experience with distributed systems, edge computing, hybrid cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), Kubernetes, industrial protocols, observability and platform APIs/SDKs.
AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, EtherCAT, Profinet, Ethernet/IP, CAN, OPC UA, MQTT, TCP/IP, gRPC, Kafka, NATS, Pub/Sub, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Forge, Sight, Print, Volt
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Director of Platform & Reliability Engineering
San Francisco or New York City
$235k-$245k/yr HybridFull Time
Forge Global
Forge GlobalNYSE: FRGE: Marketplace for trading private shares and pre-IPO stock.
8+ YOE5+ Mgmt8+ years software engineering experience with infrastructure/platform focus, 5+ years people leadership, deep cloud/observability/incident response experience, strong distributed systems judgment, and ability to set platform strategy.
Kubernetes, CI/CD
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Director, Core Runtime & Platform Engineering
Palo Alto, California, United States
HybridFull Time
Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor CompanyNYSE: F: Ford manufactures, sells, and services vehicles and mobility solutions.
10+ YOE5+ MgmtBachelor's in CS/EE or related; 10+ years in software/platform/infrastructure engineering; 5+ years leading engineering teams; experience with distributed systems, edge computing, cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), Kubernetes, industrial protocols, observability, CI/CD, and platform APIs/SDKs.
CoreOS, FMIL, CoreDS, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, EtherCAT, Profinet, CAN, OPC UA, MQTT, Kafka, NATS, Pub/Sub, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, gRPC, TCP/IP
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Director of Core Platform Engineering
Presidio, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Arcade
Arcade: Design and buy custom physical products using generative AI.
8+ YOE8+ years backend engineering experience building production commerce or marketplace systems; strong systems and API design instincts; experience with order/fulfillment, pricing engines, and AI inference infrastructure; TypeScript/Python are a plus.
Typescript, Python, Shopify, GPU, Stable Diffusion 3.5, Dreambooth
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Director of Engineering, Lakehouse Platform
San Francisco, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
TetraScience
TetraScience: Cloud platform for automating and harmonizing scientific research data.
10+ YOE6+ Mgmt10+ years engineering leadership in data platforms or distributed systems; strong Lakehouse expertise; leads large Data Engineering teams; cloud-native and IaC fluency; excellent communication.
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Director of Engineering - Platform
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$263k-$315k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Illumio
Illumio: Provides zero-trust segmentation software to contain cyberattacks.
10+ YOE10+ Mgmt10+ years of technical leadership, experience managing 10+ engineers, track record building cloud-native SaaS on AWS/Azure, containerization and DevOps practices, networking/security and regulated environments (PCI, FedRAMP), BS in CS or equivalent.
AWS, Azure
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Director, Platform Engineering and Tools
Oakland or King County
$182k-$273k/yr HybridFull Time
Ascendiun
Ascendiun: Nonprofit parent overseeing health insurance and clinical service organizations.
10+ YOE6+ Mgmt10+ years software/infrastructure experience; 6+ years people management; cloud and DevSecOps expertise; bachelor’s in CS/IT/MIS or HS diploma with experience; hybrid in-office role.
CI/CD, GitOps, CloudPlatforms, InfrastructureAutomation, ITSM, Notion, Linear
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Director, Software Engineering (Cortex Platform)
Santa Clara, California, United States
$232k-$321k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto NetworksNASDAQ: PANW: Provides enterprise-grade network, cloud, and endpoint security software.
15+ YOE7+ Mgmt15+ years software engineering experience with 7+ years leading large distributed engineering organizations; experience architecting high-scale cloud SaaS platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), distributed databases, microservices, and production reliability; strong leadership and customer-first orientation.
AWS, GCP, Azure, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, Cassandra, BigQuery, Snowflake, Redis, Go, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Pub/Sub, LLM
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Data360 Platform Director
San Francisco or New York City or Atlanta or Seattle
$197k-$314k/yr HybridFull Time
Salesforce
SalesforceNYSE: CRM: Sells cloud-based customer relationship management and business software solutions.
10+ Mgmt10+ years leading engineering teams with platform and DevOps expertise; experience with cloud data platforms, automation, reliability, security, and compliance.
Data 360 (Data Cloud), Snowflake, Tableau, MuleSoft
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Director, Engineering — Engineering Acceleration
San Mateo, California, United States
$399k-$458k/yr HybridFull Time
Roblox
RobloxNYSE: RBLX: Platform for creating and playing user-generated 3D digital experiences.
Proven experience leading and growing engineering teams, deep technical background in backend/distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, delivery of internal developer platforms/CI/CD, familiarity with AI/agentic tooling and modern AI engineering stack.
C#, Go, Kubernetes, Nomad, Temporal, AWS
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Engineering Director
Palo Alto, California, United States
$240k-$310k/yr HybridFull Time
Qualified Health
Qualified Health: A building generative AI infrastructure and platform technology to improve healthcare delivery and governance.
10+ YOE4+ Mgmt10+ years engineering experience with 4+ years people management; experience scaling engineering orgs, systems design, applied AI/ML, platform engineering, and building/managing engineering managers.
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Director - Infra Engineering - Platform Security and Lifecycle Management
Phoenix or New York or Palo Alto
$144k-$256k/yr HybridFull Time
American Express
American ExpressNYSE: AXP: Global financial services and credit card payment network.
8+ YOEBachelor's degree, 8+ years in platform engineering/SRE leading cloud infrastructure teams; deep Kubernetes/OpenShift experience; expertise with IaC, automation, observability, CI/CD, security, and capacity planning; US work eligibility required.
Redhat Openshift, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, Ansible, Prometheus, OTEL, LOKI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Kafka, Redis, Elastic, Splunk, ELK, Dynatrace
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Director, Software Engineering - Common Platform Services
San Jose, California, United States
$248k-$310k/yr HybridFull Time
Zscaler
ZscalerNASDAQ: ZS: Provides cloud-native cybersecurity solutions through zero trust architecture.
15+ YOE10+ Mgmt15+ years software engineering experience with 10+ years technical people management; U.S. citizenship required; hands-on cloud experience (AWS/GCP); AI tool familiarity; experience building large-scale resilient cloud services.
AWS, GCP, Salesforce, ServiceNow
3w
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Engineering Director - AI Guardrails
Chicago or Minneapolis or Cupertino or Charlotte or Cincinnati or Minneapolis or Hopkins
$160k-$188k/yr HybridFull Time
U.S. Bank
U.S. BankNYSE: USB: Provider of personal, business, and institutional financial services.
10+ YOE6+ MgmtBachelor's in CS/Engineering or equivalent, 10+ years software engineering experience, 5–6+ years managing engineering teams, experience with cloud-native platforms (Azure/AWS), distributed systems, AI/ML concepts, AI governance, security and compliance.
Azure, AWS, Jira
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Director of Engineering - Product Engineering
Redwood City, California, United States
$280k-$320k/yr HybridFull Time
Zum
Zum: Modernizing student transportation through technology and electric school buses
10+ YOE5+ Mgmt10+ years software engineering experience with 5+ years in engineering leadership; hands-on coding, AI integration, platform architecture ownership, hiring and developing teams, and Bay Area-based, onsite 3x/week.
Zūm CMX
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Engineering Director, Business Applications
San Francisco or San Jose or New York City or Seattle or Austin or Washington or California or Massachusetts or New Jersey or Washington or United States
$264k-$402k/yr RemoteFull Time
Thumbtack
Thumbtack: Online marketplace connecting homeowners with local service professionals.
Senior engineering leader with experience managing managers, building internal platforms and business applications (Salesforce-centered), and delivering AI-enabled, auditable workflows across systems of record.
Salesforce
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Director, Data and Knowledge Platform Engineering
San Francisco, California, United States
$300k-$330k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Airwallex
Airwallex: Global financial platform for business payments and money management.
15+ YOE5+ Mgmt15+ years in data/platform engineering with 5+ years leading engineering teams; experience with Databricks, data modeling, governance, semantic layers, and regional data localization.
Databricks