This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Engineering Leader, Platform Engineering based in Canada.
This role offers the opportunity to lead the strategic direction of a high-impact Platform Engineering organization that enables engineering teams to build, deploy, and scale products efficiently. You will oversee multiple platform domains—including infrastructure, developer experience, data platforms, and AI tooling—while shaping the technical foundations that support company-wide innovation. As a manager of engineering managers, you will combine organizational leadership with architectural decision-making to improve engineering productivity, reliability, and operational excellence. Working closely with product, security, operations, and engineering leaders, you will define long-term platform strategy and influence technology decisions across the organization. This remote leadership role is ideal for someone who enjoys building high-performing teams, driving engineering standards, and creating platforms that developers genuinely want to use. Your leadership will directly impact how software is designed, developed, and delivered at scale.
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Engineering Leader, Platform Engineering based in Canada.
This role offers the opportunity to lead the strategic direction of a high-impact Platform Engineering organization that enables engineering teams to build, deploy, and scale products efficiently. You will oversee multiple platform domains—including infrastructure, developer experience, data platforms, and AI tooling—while shaping the technical foundations that support company-wide innovation. As a manager of engineering managers, you will combine organizational leadership with architectural decision-making to improve engineering productivity, reliability, and operational excellence. Working closely with product, security, operations, and engineering leaders, you will define long-term platform strategy and influence technology decisions across the organization. This remote leadership role is ideal for someone who enjoys building high-performing teams, driving engineering standards, and creating platforms that developers genuinely want to use. Your leadership will directly impact how software is designed, developed, and delivered at scale.
Accountabilities:
- Lead and oversee multiple Platform Engineering teams responsible for infrastructure, developer experience, data platforms, and AI tooling.
- Define and execute the platform engineering roadmap, aligning technical priorities with business objectives and the needs of internal engineering teams.
- Manage and mentor engineering managers, providing coaching, performance feedback, career development, and leadership support.
- Drive architectural decisions and evaluate build-versus-buy strategies to ensure scalable, reliable, and cost-effective platform solutions.
- Establish and promote engineering best practices, operational excellence, AI-native development workflows, and high-quality software delivery standards.
- Partner with product engineering, security, operations, and other cross-functional leaders to deliver platform capabilities that improve engineering velocity and system reliability.
- Own platform reliability through service-level objectives, incident response processes, technical debt management, and continuous platform improvement.
- Foster adoption of internal developer platforms, reusable infrastructure, and standardized engineering workflows across the organization.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure, platform engineering, or related technical disciplines.
- Minimum of 2 years managing engineering managers in a manager-of-managers leadership role.
- Proven experience leading platform engineering, infrastructure, developer productivity, or data platform organizations at scale.
- Strong technical background with the ability to make architecture-level decisions and evaluate build-versus-buy trade-offs.
- Experience developing engineering leaders while building high-performing, collaborative teams.
- Deep understanding of modern cloud infrastructure, software architecture, platform reliability, and operational excellence.
- Experience implementing engineering best practices, developer platforms, CI/CD processes, and AI-assisted development workflows.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence executive stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
- Strategic mindset with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to balance long-term platform investments with immediate business priorities.
- Experience leading distributed or remote engineering organizations is highly desirable.
- Competitive compensation package based on experience and location.
- Fully remote work environment with flexibility across supported regions.
- Opportunity to lead organization-wide platform strategy and influence engineering at scale.
- Collaborative culture focused on innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Work alongside highly experienced engineering leaders in a high-performing technical environment.
- Career growth opportunities with significant leadership ownership and organizational impact.
- Inclusive workplace committed to diversity, equity, and equal opportunity.