[Remote] Director of Platform Engineering (Remote)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. FMG is a leading all-in-one digital marketing platform dedicated to empowering financial professionals. They are seeking a Director of Platform Engineering to own the architecture of their developer experience, focusing on tooling standards, AI harness, deployment pipelines, and governance models to enhance engineering productivity and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the developer experience across all product engineering teams: tooling standards, AI harness integration, deployment pipelines, and governance model
- Define and enforce platform engineering standards that enable engineering teams to ship faster and at a higher quality bar
- Drive adoption of AI-native SDLC practices across the organization, partnering with engineering managers to measure and improve development velocity
- Lead architectural decisions for shared platform infrastructure, including observability, deployment, and API standards
- Build and lead the Platform Engineering team, including a Senior Platform Engineer and SRE/DevOps Lead
- Develop engineering talent and establish the culture of the platform function — reliability, craftsmanship, automation-first thinking
- Represent Platform Engineering in cross-functional forums with Product, IT, and executive leadership
- Partner with the SVP and Head of Engineering on long-term technology strategy
- Own the reliability posture of the platform: uptime SLOs, on-call frameworks, incident response standards, and postmortem culture
- Establish telemetry, observability, and alerting standards across all product lines (DataDog, CloudWatch, PagerDuty)
- Collaborate with IT on the clean boundary between Engineering-owned reliability functions and IT-owned cloud infrastructure, security, and governance
- Evaluate and champion new tooling, frameworks, and practices that improve engineering productivity
- Be an active participant in FMG's AI engineering transformation — from agentic development tools to AI-assisted QA and testing
- Serve as a technical thought partner to the SVP and Head of Engineering on platform bets, M&A technical diligence, and architecture direction
Skills
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE leadership roles
- Demonstrated experience building or scaling a platform engineering function — from establishing standards through growing a team
- Strong command of cloud infrastructure (AWS primary, GCP secondary), CI/CD pipelines, and modern deployment practices
- Hands-on experience with observability tooling (DataDog, CloudWatch, PagerDuty, or equivalent)
- Experience leading and developing engineering teams — hiring, mentoring, and setting technical direction
- Strong communicator — comfortable translating platform strategy for non-technical audiences and making the case for investment
- Proven track record of shipping: you hold teams accountable for delivery and know how to unblock them
- Access to a private & secure workspace, free from distractions
- Accessible during the assigned work schedule for regular duties and responsibilities as outlined by the supervisor
- An internet connection with speeds of 5 Megabits down / 3 Megabits up (5mbps/3mbps)
- Experience at a PE-backed or high-growth SaaS company
- Familiarity with multi-product or multi-brand engineering environments
- Hands-on experience with AI-native development tooling, agentic SDLC, or AI-assisted engineering workflows
- Background in or familiarity with wealth management, financial services, or regulated industry software
- Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol), API platform design, or developer platform strategy
- Familiarity with GitHub Actions, Terraform or IaC tooling, and container orchestration (ECS, EKS)
- Experience running or contributing to an engineering M&A integration
Benefits
- Enjoy a generous paid holiday schedule, including a full week off for our Winter Holiday Shutdown.
- Our comprehensive paid time off policies cover vacation, sick days, parental leave, and bereavement leave.
- Our robust insurance plan includes: + Medical with $0 co-pay Telehealth plan + Dental + Vision + Health Savings Account (HSA) with generous employer contributions + Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) + Company-paid Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) coverage + Company-paid Short & Long Term Disability coverage + Company-paid Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Matching 401(k) with immediate full vesting
- On Demand Pay - allows access to a portion of your earned wages prior to the payday with same day deposit
- Internet & Gym Reimbursement!
- We’ll provide you with the work computer equipment you need to set you up for success!
- Our Employee Events Committee and managers are always planning a mix of fun in-person and virtual events to keep us all connected—plus we also love to throw in some FMG swag, so you can show off your company spirit in style!
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