58 director platform engineering jobs at 46 companies in Gilroy, CA

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Director, Platform Engineering & Quality
Seattle or Palo Alto
$210k-$280k/yr HybridFull Time
Spotnana
Spotnana: Cloud-based travel-as-a-service platform for enterprises.
Proven leadership of QA and platform teams, deep experience with test automation and distributed systems (Temporal, Kafka, Cassandra, PostgreSQL/RDS), cloud (AWS), Kubernetes, IaC, and QA tooling (TestRail, Allure). Strong communication and cross-functional influence.
Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, TestRail, Allure, Temporal, Kafka, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, RDS, AWS, Kubernetes, Jira, Confluence
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Director, Core Runtime & Platform Engineering
Palo Alto, California, United States
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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, Core Runtime & Platform Engineering
Palo Alto, California, United States
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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 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, 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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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, Engineering
Pleasanton, California, United States
$222k-$311k/yr HybridFull Time
Blackhawk Network
Blackhawk Network: Provider of branded payment solutions and gift cards.
12+ YOE5+ Mgmt12+ years software engineering experience with 5+ years managing managers; expertise in Java and distributed systems, API-first/cloud-native design, PCI-DSS security, and platform reliability.
Java, Spring Boot, REST, GraphQL, AWS, New Relic, Splunk, Docker, Kubernetes
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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
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Director of Mechanical Engineering, Hardware Platform
Emeryville or Santa Clara
$275k-$320k/yr HybridFull Time
Atomic Machines
Atomic Machines: Develops AI-powered robotic platforms for autonomous micro-scale manufacturing.
15+ YOE7+ Mgmt15+ years robotics/precision automation; 7+ years leading engineering teams; strong mechanical design, GD&T, DFMEA/PFMEA; prototype-to-production leadership; cross-functional collaboration.
CAD, GD&T, DFMEA, PFMEA, DVP&R, Verification and Validation, Calibration, Testing
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Director of Software Engineering, Core Platform
Santa Clara, California, United States
$263k-$395k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Pure Storage
Pure StorageNYSE: PSTG: Provides all-flash enterprise data storage and management solutions.
Proven leader of multiple engineering teams, deep systems/distributed systems or storage expertise, strong strategic change management and operational excellence, able to work onsite in Santa Clara, CA.
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Director of Engineering, Core & Ads Serving Platform
San Francisco or Palo Alto
$285k-$450k/yr HybridFull Time
Pinterest
PinterestNYSE: PINS: Visual discovery engine for finding inspiration and creative ideas.
Deep expertise in large-scale indexing/retrieval systems, technical leadership across organizations, experience with AI-assisted engineering workflows, and strong communication and systems-thinking skills.
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Director, Web Platform & Technology
Palo Alto or Dublin
$151k-$297k/yr HybridFull Time
MongoDB
MongoDBNASDAQ: MDB: Cloud-based document database platform for software application development.
10+ YOE10+ years leading large-scale web platform engineering, deep AEM expertise, AI/LLM application experience, proven people leader, strong web architecture and delivery practices.
Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Adobe Target, RT-CDP, AEM Assets, Adobe Experience Cloud, LLMs, MongoDB Atlas, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, CI/CD, CDN
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Senior Director - AI Evaluation Platform
Santa Clara, California, United States
$279k-$488k/yr HybridFull Time
ServiceNow
ServiceNowNYSE: NOW: Provides a cloud platform for automating enterprise digital workflows.
Proven leadership of large AI or platform engineering teams, deep expertise in AI evaluation methodologies, production evaluation platforms, strong communication, and hands-on experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow.
PyTorch, TensorFlow
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Director of Engineering
San Jose, California, United States
$210k-$303k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Altera
Altera: Manufacturer of field-programmable gate arrays and programmable logic devices.
12+ YOE6+ MgmtBachelor's in CS/CE/EE required, 12+ years technical experience, 6+ years engineering leadership, FPGA and software IP expertise, experience with platforms, CI/CD, Quartus; U.S. export authorization eligibility required.
Quartus, CI/CD, SDKs, Agile
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Director of Engineering -Exchange
Seattle or San Jose
$175k-$260k/yr HybridFull Time
Extreme Networks
Extreme NetworksNASDAQ: EXTR: Provides cloud-managed networking hardware and software solutions.
15+ YOE5+ Mgmt15+ years software engineering experience with 10+ years engineering leadership and 5+ years managing managers; experience building scalable, secure cloud-native AI/platform services; strong communication and distributed systems expertise.
Model Context Protocol (MCP), Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, AWS, Azure, GCP, SQL, NoSQL, vector databases, graph databases
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(USA) Director, Software Engineering
Sunnyvale or Bentonville
$169k-$338k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Walmart
WalmartNYSE: WMT: Multinational retail operating discount stores and supermarkets.
6+ YOE3+ MgmtSenior engineering leader with deep distributed-systems and networking expertise, experience leading global teams, platform and SRE practices, cloud (Azure) and Kubernetes experience, and 6+ years software engineering (or 8+ without degree) with 3 years supervisory experience.
Go, Rust, Java, Azure, Kubernetes, API gateways, CDNs, service mesh
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Senior Director, AI Engineering -Agentic AI Platform(Remote Eligible)
San Francisco or McLean or Cambridge or San Jose or New York City or United States
$286k-$392k/yr RemoteFull Time
Capital One
Capital OneNYSE: COF: Financial services offering credit cards, banking, and loans.
Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering/AI with 8–10+ years building or leading AI/ML systems, 5+ years people leadership, cloud AI deployment experience, and strong communication and technical judgement.
AWS Ultraclusters, Huggingface, VectorDBs, Nemo Guardrails, PyTorch, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure
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Director - AI Research and Engineering Efficiency (Circuit Platform)
San Jose, California, United States
$292k-$369k/yr HybridFull Time
Cisco
CiscoNASDAQ: CSCO: Develops and sells networking hardware and cybersecurity software.
15+ YOEDirector-level role leading AI research and engineering efficiency for Circuit Platform; 15+ years software/AI systems experience; enterprise-scale LLM/agentic AI expertise; strong leadership and architecture skills.
LLM platforms, model-serving, routing, caching, quantization, distillation, prompt optimization, inference serving
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Senior Director, Design Engineering 1
San Jose, California, United States
$208k-$367k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Celestica
CelesticaNYSE: CLS: Provides design, manufacturing, and supply chain solutions for electronics.
15+ YOE15+ years in product architecture and engineering; expert software and hardware knowledge; customer engagement and leadership; hands-on with C/C++, Python, Linux kernel, platform drivers, open source, and networking chipsets; bachelor\u0002s degree or equivalent.
C/C++, Python, Linux kernel, Platform drivers, Open source development, Networking switching chipsets, AI/ML, GenAI
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Director of Engineering, AiDP Data Services
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Apple
AppleNASDAQ: AAPL: Designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and online services.
Lead engineering for AI & Data Platforms, working across data, application development, and machine learning including generative AI to build data services and drive adoption.