Tinder
Director of Platform Engineering
San Francisco · Director
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 193 days ago
Distributed SystemsAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsCI/CDDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringIncident ResponseLeadershipCommunication
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About the role
- We're seeking a Director of Platform Engineering to lead our infrastructure, reliability, developer experience, and core backend platform efforts. This is a strategic, high-ownership leadership role responsible for building and guiding the teams that ensure the platform is secure, scalable, observable, and engineered for velocity.
- In this role, you will set technical direction, drive architectural strategy, empower engineering teams with world-class tooling, and lead initiatives that enable the entire organization to move faster with confidence. You'll work closely with product, engineering leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders to shape the platform that will support the company's next phase of growth.
- We're seeking a Director of Platform Engineering to lead our infrastructure, reliability, developer experience, and core backend platform efforts.
Responsibilities
- Lead and scale the Platform Engineering organization, including infrastructure, DevOps/SRE, and core backend platform teams.
- Drive standards and best practices for observability, incident response, and operational excellence.
- Partner with engineering leaders to align platform capabilities with product and business goals.
- Mentor, coach, and develop engineering managers and senior ICs.
- Collaborate closely with security, product, and data teams on cross-functional initiatives.
- Build a healthy, collaborative engineering culture grounded in ownership, trust, and technical rigor.
- Proven experience driving platform strategy and building systems that support rapid product growth.
- In this role, you will set technical direction, drive architectural strategy, empower engineering teams with world-class tooling, and lead initiatives that enable the entire organization to move faster with confidence.
Requirements
- 8-12+ years of engineering experience, with 4+ years leading platform, infrastructure, or SRE teams.
- Deep expertise in cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), distributed systems, and high-scale architectures.
- Strong understanding of developer tooling, CI/CD, observability, and modern DevOps practices.
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous startup environment.
- Experience scaling SaaS products or mission-critical systems.
- Familiarity with service mesh, multi-region architectures, event-driven systems, or zero-downtime migrations.
- Experience managing budgets, vendor relationships, and long-horizon technical investments.
Compensation
- Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits.
Benefits
- Define the long-term platform vision, architecture, and technical roadmap.
Company info
- EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY AND DIVERSITY STATEMENT We are committed to equal employment opportunity in both principle and as a matter of policy.
Equal opportunity
- We are committed to equal employment opportunity in both principle and as a matter of policy.
- We will recruit, hire, train, promote, compensate and provide benefits to all applicants and employees without regard to ancestry, sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, gender, age, religion, religious creed, mental and/or physical disability, medical condition, military and/or veteran's status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws.
- This policy applies to all recruiting, hiring, promotions, upgrades, layoffs, compensation, benefits, terminations and all other privileges, terms and conditions of employment.
- The firm complies fully with all federal, state and local equal employment opportunity laws.
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