VP, Production Platform

Skills

About the Role

You will lead the Production Platform organization of around 55 engineers through its Engineering Managers. You will set strategy and roadmap for reliability, deployment, build and CI and the internal service framework, own production reliability, make delivery to every environment simple, raise engineering velocity, design the organization as it scales, and partner with Product Engineering, Research and enterprise teams.

Requirements

• Deep background in infrastructure, site reliability or production engineering
• Experience managing managers and growing team leads
• Experience scaling an infrastructure or platform organization
• Track record of running production systems at scale
• Ability to set strategy in ambiguous scope
• Strong technical judgment in distributed systems, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure and CI/CD
• Experience delivering software into customer environments is a plus
• Experience with AI infrastructure is a plus

Responsibilities

• Lead the Production Platform organization through Engineering Managers and grow them as leaders
• Set strategy and roadmap for reliability, deployment, build and CI, and internal service framework
• Own production reliability: SLOs, on-call, incident management and capacity
• Make delivery to SaaS, private cloud and on-premise environments simple and dependable
• Raise engineering velocity with fast CI and safe deployments
• Give product teams strong defaults and ownership of their services and tests
• Design the organization as it scales: structure, hiring, on-call models and processes
• Contribute to architecture and technical decisions
• Partner with Product Engineering, Research and enterprise teams
• Define and track reliability, delivery speed and developer experience metrics

Benefits

• Healthcare coverage
• Parental leave
• Retirement plans
• Relocation support
• Wellness programs
• Meal and transportation allowances