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Director, Platform Software Engineering
Seattle or Redwood City
$123k-$355k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Oracle
OracleNYSE: ORCL: Provides cloud infrastructure and enterprise software for global businesses.
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, 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, Marketing Platform Engineering and Personalization
Santa Clara, California, United States
$216k-$345k/yr OnsiteFull Time
NVIDIA
NVIDIANASDAQ: NVDA: Designs GPU-accelerated computing and artificial intelligence hardware.
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: Designs graphics processing units and artificial intelligence hardware.
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 Engineering, PrivacyOps Platform
San Jose or Seattle
$366k-$680k/yr HybridFull Time
Veeam
Veeam: Data resilience and security for hybrid cloud environments
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: Provides legal counsel to technology and life sciences companies.
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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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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Director, Server Platform & Systems Validation Engineering
Santa Clara or Austin
$216k-$308k/yr HybridFull Time
AMD
AMDNASDAQ: AMD: Designs and manufactures computer processors and graphics technology.
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: 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, 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 of Engineering, Core & Ads Serving Platform
San Francisco or Palo Alto
$285k-$450k/yr HybridFull Time
Pinterest
PinterestNYSE: PINS: Visual discovery engine for finding and saving ideas.
8+ YOE5+ MgmtRequires 8+ years of industry experience, 5+ years leading engineering organizations, distributed systems expertise, AI/LLM tooling experience, and a bachelor's or master's degree or equivalent experience.
AI, LLM
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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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