Mechanical Orchard

Director of Engineering, Product Infrastructure and Release Engineering

USA (Remote) · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 131 days ago

Platform EngineeringProduct StrategySupply ChainLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

Mechanical Orchard is reinventing how the world's most critical software gets modernized.
We're an applied AI company focused on one of the hardest problems in enterprise technology: rewriting complex legacy systems in a way that is provably correct, low risk, and fast enough to matter.
If you care deeply about quality, rigor, and doing the right thing-even when it's hard-you'll find your people here.

Partner closely with Product Leadership to balance near-term customer needs with long-term platform scalability and repeatability.
Drive standardization where possible while enabling extensibility for complex enterprise environments
Champion architectural patterns that reduce installation complexity, operational burden, and long-term support cost.
Partner with Security and Compliance to ensure infrastructure designs meet enterprise and regulatory expectations.
Partner with Infra Delivery Leadership to define installation and deployment strategy across customer and Mechanical Orchard environments.
Ensure installation processes are repeatable, measurable, and continuously improving, leveraging the latest advancements in AI to support execution
Build Mechanical Orchard's system for reliable software releases, by defining standards, providing tools, and establishing clear boundaries between the release engineering team and platform product teams.
Define and refine success metrics for infrastructure delivery into customer environments (e.g., time-to-install, failure rates, support load).
Partner with Sales, Infra Delivery Leadership, and Product to ensure infrastructure capabilities are accurately represented in pre-sales and GTM motions.
Partner with Infra Delivery Leadership to define and maintain sales-enablement assets (reference architectures, deployment options, constraints, and expectations).

10+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or developer tooling.
Hands-on experience with latest AI coding tools, model capabilities, and industry trends
Ideal Candidate Profile

opinionated where possible, flexible where necessary, and aligned with Mechanical Orchard's modernization strategy and GTM motion.
Own the end-to-end infrastructure product vision, including installers, deployment tooling, reference architectures, and operational patterns.

rewriting complex legacy systems in a way that is provably correct, low risk, and fast enough to matter.
By focusing on system behavior rather than code alone, we turn modernization from a high-stakes, failure-prone effort into a repeatable, confidence-building process that unlocks ongoing innovation.
Joining Mechanical Orchard means working on problems that truly matter-to our customers, their businesses, and the people who rely on these systems every day.
We're building technology and methodology that challenge long-standing industry assumptions, prioritizing proof over promises and progress over theatrics.
Position Overview
The Director of Product Infrastructure and Release Engineering is a senior leadership role responsible for the strategy, coherence, and execution of Mechanical Orchard's infrastructure and release capabilities-spanning infrastructure products, installation and deployment workflows, and operational enablement for customers and forward-deployed engineering teams.

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