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Director, Platform Software Engineering
Seattle or Redwood City
$123k-$355k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Oracle Corporation
Oracle CorporationNYSE: ORCL: Cloud infrastructure and enterprise software solutions provider.
12+ YOE5+ MgmtBS/MS/PhD in CS or related field; 12+ years building distributed systems/cloud platforms; 5+ years engineering management; expertise in Kubernetes, APIs, microservices; strong leadership and communication.
Kubernetes, ROS 2, DDS, MQTT, OPC-UA, VDA5050, Java, Python
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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: Financial technology operating a private-market marketplace and data, custody, and investment solutions for companies and investors.
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, AI Platform Engineering
San Francisco or Boston or Waltham or New York City
$200k-$230k/yr HybridFull Time
SS&C Advent
SS&C AdventNASDAQ: SSNC: Global provider of financial services and healthcare technology solutions.
10+ YOE5+ MgmtRequires 10+ years in software engineering, 5+ years in engineering leadership, production platform expertise, AI/ML ecosystem knowledge, cloud infrastructure experience, and Python backend development.
LangGraph, MCP, AG-UI, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Python, FastAPI, SSE, WebSocket, GraphQL, dbt, Module Federation
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Director, Platform Engineering and Tools
Oakland or Washington or Ohio or District of Columbia or California or Long Beach or Arizona or Colorado or Connecticut or Florida or Georgia or Maryland or Minnesota or Nevada or Oregon or El Dorado Hills or Lodi or Rancho Cordova or Redding or San Diego or Woodland Hills or Alabama or Illinois or Virginia or Wisconsin or Texas or New York
$205k-$308k/yr HybridFull Time
Stellarus
Stellarus: Nonprofit California health plan providing insurance coverage to individuals, families, employers, and public-program members.
10+ YOE6+ Mgmt10+ years engineering experience, 6+ years people management, Bachelor’s in CS/IT/MIS (or HS+4yrs), experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), CI/CD and GitOps, strong cross-functional influence and strategic leadership.
CI/CD, GitOps, Linear, Notion, ITSM, AWS, Azure, GCP
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Engineering Director, Payments Platform
Singapore or United Kingdom or San Francisco
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Airwallex
Airwallex: Global financial technology platform for modern businesses.
10+ YOE5+ MgmtRequires 10+ years in software engineering, 5+ years in engineering leadership, people management, distributed systems architecture, product partnership, and fintech or regulated-industry experience.
AI, OKRs
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Director, Marketing Platform Engineering and Personalization
Santa Clara, California, United States
$216k-$345k/yr OnsiteFull Time
NVIDIA
NVIDIANASDAQ: NVDA: Computing platform for AI and accelerated graphics.
12+ YOE5+ MgmtBachelor's or master's degree or equivalent experience; 12+ years in software or platform engineering, including 5+ years leading managers, senior engineers, and external partners; expertise in distributed systems, data architecture, and enterprise platforms.
Microservices, API, NoSQL, LLM
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Director, Marketing Platform Engineering and Personalization
Santa Clara, California, United States
$216k-$345k/yr OnsiteFull Time
NVIDIA
NVIDIANASDAQ: NVDA: Computing platform for AI and accelerated graphics.
12+ YOE5+ MgmtBachelor’s or master’s degree or equivalent experience; 12+ years in software or platform engineering, including 5+ years leading managers, senior engineers, and external partners; expertise in distributed systems, data architecture, governance, and platform operations.
AI, microservices, API, NoSQL, LLM
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Director, Marketing Platform Engineering and Personalization
Santa Clara, California, United States
$216k-$345k/yr OnsiteFull Time
NVIDIA
NVIDIANASDAQ: NVDA: Computing platform for AI and accelerated graphics.
12+ YOE5+ MgmtBachelor's or master's degree in a technical field or equivalent experience; 12+ years in software or platform engineering, including 5+ years leading managers, engineers, and external partners.
AI, microservices, API, NoSQL, LLM, GPU
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Director of Core Platform Engineering
Presidio, California, United States
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Arcade
Arcade: Private AI product-creation marketplace helping consumers design custom jewelry, accessories, and home decor with independent makers.
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, PrivacyOps Platform
San Jose or Seattle
$366k-$680k/yr HybridFull Time
Securiti AI
Securiti AI: Securiti is a private U.S. data-security software helping enterprises secure, govern, protect, and responsibly use data and AI.
Requires Go or Python, distributed systems, microservices, REST/GraphQL APIs, Kafka or RabbitMQ, SDK or integration platform leadership, AI-assisted development, engineering team management, and privacy regulations expertise.
Go, Python, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Kafka, RabbitMQ, REST, GraphQL
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Director of Data Engineering & Platform
San Francisco or New York or Santa Monica or Los Angeles or Palo Alto or Chicago or Washington or Boston or Colorado or Seattle or San Diego or Reston or United States
$260k-$320k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Cooley
Cooley: Private law firm advising technology, life sciences and high-growth companies on deals, litigation, intellectual property and regulation.
10+ YOE5+ MgmtRequires 10+ years in data engineering, platform or enterprise architecture, 5+ years managing teams, Databricks expertise, Data Vault 2.0, cloud platform delivery, Agile leadership, GitHub, and a bachelor's degree.
Microsoft Office, iManage, Databricks, AWS, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Databricks SQL, GitHub, Qlik Replicate, AWS DMS, Informatica MDM, DQE, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, dbt, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot
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Senior Director of Engineering, Billing Platform
Austin or London or Lisbon or San Francisco or New York City or Seattle
$273k-$341k/yr HybridFull Time
Cloudflare
CloudflareNYSE: NET: Cloud-based security, performance, and reliability services for Internet applications.
15+ YOE3+ MgmtRequires 15+ years of software engineering experience, 7+ years leading engineering teams, and 3+ years managing engineering managers, with billing or financial platform experience and distributed-systems expertise.
Stripe, Salesforce, ERP, CRM, SaaS, APIs, SLOs, SOC 2, PCI, BI
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Director of Engineering - Platform
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$263k-$315k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Illumio
Illumio: Private cybersecurity providing breach containment and Zero Trust security for enterprise organizations.
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 of Engineering, AI Platform
San Francisco, California, United States
$306k-$360k/yr HybridFull Time
Asana
AsanaNYSE: ASAN: Platform for human and AI collaboration for teams.
12+ YOE5+ Mgmt12+ years software engineering experience with 5+ years engineering leadership, experience managing engineering managers, expertise in AI serving, inference, retrieval, evaluation, cost optimization, and cross-functional partnership.
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Director, Server Platform & Systems Validation Engineering
Santa Clara or Austin
$216k-$308k/yr HybridFull Time
AMD
AMDNASDAQ: AMD: Leader in high-performance computing, graphics, and visualization technologies.
Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or related field; extensive silicon and system validation experience; leadership of managers and technical teams; strong communication skills.
Artificial Intelligence, EPYC, HW, FW, SW
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Director, Engineering — Engineering Acceleration
San Mateo, California, United States
$399k-$458k/yr HybridFull Time
Roblox
RobloxNYSE: RBLX: Global platform for user-created immersive 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: Private healthcare AI platform helping health systems deploy governed, scalable artificial intelligence safely.
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, Software Engineering - Common Platform Services
San Jose, California, United States
$248k-$310k/yr HybridFull Time
Zscaler
ZscalerNASDAQ: ZS: Cloud-native Zero Trust cybersecurity platform for digital transformation.
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
Fab2
Fab2: Fab2 is a privately held semiconductor manufacturer building fabs, chipmaking tools, components, and design software.
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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Senior Director - AI Evaluation Platform
Santa Clara, California, United States
$279k-$488k/yr HybridFull Time
ServiceNow
ServiceNowNYSE: NOW: Enterprise software providing cloud-based workflow automation platforms.
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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