Director of Platform Engineering - Remote Opportunity

About the Role

We are seeking a Director of Platform Engineering to join our team at Overstory. This remote role is pivotal in leading our engineering teams to create a resilient electrical grid that addresses the climate crisis. You will play a key role in evolving our core engineering foundations and ensuring our platform supports rapid product development and growing customer demand.

What You'll Do

• Own the platform strategy across Platform, MLOps, and SRE, aligning it with company and product goals.
• Grow senior individual contributors (ICs) and eventually managers across multiple teams, fostering strong technical leadership and healthy team cultures.
• Define and evolve our platform vision, including developer experience, internal tooling, CI/CD, infrastructure, observability, and reliability standards.
• Oversee MLOps systems that support model development, training, deployment, monitoring, and governance in production.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, ML, Data, Security, and Compliance to ensure the platform meets current and future needs.
• Balance speed and stability, making thoughtful tradeoffs between innovation, cost, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Set metrics and accountability for platform performance, reliability, and developer productivity.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience leading platform, infrastructure, or reliability teams in a scaling startup environment.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native infrastructure, preferably GCP.
• Experience navigating ambiguity, rapid growth, and the transition from early-stage systems to more mature, repeatable platforms.
• Proven track record of building platforms that empower teams and enhance productivity.
• Excellent people leadership skills with a focus on fostering a healthy team culture.

Nice to Have

• Experience with agile methodologies.
• Familiarity with AI and machine learning concepts.
• Proficiency in DevOps practices, Docker, and Git.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary in the range of $150,000 - $200,000 per year.
• Flexible remote work environment.
• Opportunity to work on impactful projects addressing climate change.
• Collaborative and diverse team culture.
• Professional development opportunities.