Mechanical Orchard
Director of Engineering, Product Infrastructure and Release Engineering
Canada (Remote) · Director
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 131 days ago
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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.
Responsibilities
- 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).
Requirements
- 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
Benefits
- 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.
Company info
- 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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