Platform Engineering Director

1 week ago

Old Toronto, Canada Wave Full time

We're seeking a seasoned leader to oversee the end-to-end health of our shared infrastructure and platform. As Director of Platform Engineering, you'll drive operations and automation to accelerate product delivery and ensure consistent, stable services.

The successful candidate will lead a team of engineers responsible for managing the associated infrastructure and tooling costs. Focus on building a healthy team culture that aligns with the needs of our users.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Ownership of Core Engineering Functions: Own observability, CI/CD, core infrastructure abstractions, and shared tooling.
  • Platform Engineering Excellence: Optimize and simplify platform tooling and enable ease of use of services (APIs) for developers. Define and continuously improve core metrics for platform engineering.
  • Cross Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with engineering leaders to prioritize feature development and engineering investments. Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure platform engineering initiatives are aligned with broader business goals.
  • Vision and Strategy: Develop and drive the long-term strategic vision for platform engineering, ensuring the team is well-positioned to meet future challenges and opportunities.
  • Innovation: Stay current on engineering best practices and trends. Lead the team in continuously refining strategies, processes, and tools to improve efficiency, reliability, and innovation within platform engineering.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of experience managing multiple engineering teams in a Cloud infrastructure environment (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)
  • 10+ years of experience in software development with distributed production systems at scale
  • Expertise building DevOps tooling and processes, with knowledge of site reliability, observability and product engineering
  • Expertise with back-end software engineering, e.g., REST APIs, microservices, data processing, SQL and NoSQL database technologies
  • Ability to facilitate technical decision-making, even outside your domain expertise
  • Experience with modern software engineering processes such as Agile
  • Nice to have: Experience implementing regulatory frameworks such as SOC, PCI, HIPAA
  • Nice to have: Experience managing offshore teams
  • Nice to have: Competency with Python
  • Ideal candidate has experience working with SaaS and/or FinTech organizations

At Wave, you'll be part of a team that empowers small business owners to manage their finances fearlessly. We offer a welcoming, energizing, and world-class office (in Toronto) with a space for you. Or, if you're more comfortable working from home, the choice is yours.

We've been recognized as one of Canada's Top Ten Most Admired Corporate Cultures and one of Canada's Great Places to Work in categories including Technology, Millennials, Mental Health, Inclusion and Women.

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