Senior Director, Platform Engineering

Experience building, leading, and scaling best-in-class platform and/or developer experience organizations, ideally in a rapidly scaling environment, including leading managers and senior engineers.

10+ years of real-world experience developing or managing complex engineering systems, with significant time spent owning developer experience, platform engineering, or the build/test/release pipeline end to end.

Direct, hands-on experience with AI-assisted and agentic development — AI coding harnesses, agent-first / AI-first workflows, and coding agents — and clear, well-formed opinions about how they change code review, testing, pipeline design, and engineering org structure.

Deep expertise with CI/CD systems (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar) and a demonstrated ability to scale them, ideally in a monorepo at scale.

Strong software engineering fundamentals — you design well-architected systems and lead from the front, not just from the org chart.

Production experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (Terraform / OpenTofu).

$295,000 - $345,000 USD

The salary range, to the extent specified for this role, is a good faith statement of the minimum and maximum levels of the annual based salary for the position. The base salary offered to a successful candidate will depend on a wide range of compensation factors, including, but not limited to, work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Altana's total compensation package. Altana also offers either a discretionary bonus or a variable compensation plan depending on the role. Additionally, Altana offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

Flexible Time Off: Altana operates with a Flexible Time Off (FTO) policy that gives you agency over your own time off so you can maximize your work-life balance.

Parental Leave: We offer industry leading Paid Parental Leave (PPL), providing 14 weeks of leave for non-birthing, adoptive, and foster parents and up to 26 weeks of leave for birthing parents, all paid at 100% of your base salary.

Health Benefits: We have a full suite of medical, vision, and dental benefits with generous employer contributions, designed to give you flexibility and choice for your individual health situation. Our high deductible health plan is 100% employer paid for employees and supplemented with an employer contribution to your Health Savings Account (HSA). There is also a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) option.

Supplemental Benefits: Altana provides life, short- and long-term disability, and AD&D insurance coverage, all at no cost to you, so you know that you and your loved ones are covered in case of an emergency.

As the Senior Director of Platform Engineering, you will own the foundation that the entire Altana engineering organization builds on: the cloud infrastructure that runs our products and the developer experience that determines how fast and how safely we ship.

You will lead a multidisciplinary organization spanning Cloud Engineering, Developer Experience, Site Reliability, and DevSecOps / Release Engineering — with end-to-end ownership of our build, test, and release pipelines.

This is a moment of real transformation in how software is built.

We are reorganizing our engineering practice around an AI-first, agent-first model, where AI coding harnesses and autonomous agents are first-class participants in the software development lifecycle.

We are looking for a leader who has done this work before — someone who has built and scaled developer experience and platform organizations, and who has direct, hands-on experience and strong, well-formed opinions about agentic coding, AI-assisted development, and what it takes to make an engineering org dramatically more productive.

You will set the technical strategy, build and develop the team, and personally raise the bar on engineering excellence.