Director of Platform Engineering

Overstory; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working environment

Remote working budget

Educational budget

Equity

Competitive salary

Job summary

A leading tech company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Platform Lead to spearhead the platform strategy across various technical domains. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in platform or infrastructure roles, excellent leadership skills, and a strong understanding of cloud-native technologies. This position offers a flexible working environment, equity, and the chance to contribute to vital climate change solutions by supporting resilient energy systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in platform, infrastructure, or reliability teams.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
• Experience with machine learning systems in production.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform strategy across Platform, MLOps, and SRE.
• Grow senior ICs and managers across multiple teams.
• Define and evolve platform vision including developer experience.

Skills

People leadership

Cloud-native infrastructure

Kubernetes

CI/CD practices

Machine learning systems

Communication skills

Tools

GCP

Job description

The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our time—but it’s also the greatest opportunity for innovation, and a challenge we’re proud to take on. At Overstory, we’re harnessing cutting‑edge technology to enable a resilient electrical grid that keeps communities thriving as our world changes.

The grid is the backbone of life as we know it. It powers hospitals, keeps food fresh, and ensures communities stay connected. But extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and growing wildfire risks are putting this critical system under pressure, making the electric utility industry the greatest opportunity for tackling climate change.

One of the leading causes of catastrophic wildfires and power outages? Trees and brush coming into contact with power lines.

That’s where we help. At Overstory, we use AI and advanced satellite imagery to pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. By giving utilities critical analysis on those risks, we’re helping prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid.

Our team spans the Americas and Europe, working with utility partners across the Americas and beyond. We’re outdoor enthusiasts, musicians, artists, athletes, parents, and adventurers—15 nationalities strong and growing. What unites us is a passion for solving complex problems, a commitment to climate action, and the belief that technology should be a force for good.

Join us to help us build a more resilient world together.

The role

Time zone requirement: Europe (GMT/WET, CET, EET) and Eastern North America (NST, AST, EST)

What You’ll Do

• Own the platform strategy across Platform, MLOps, and SRE, aligning it with company and product goals
• Grow senior ICs (and eventually managers) across multiple teams, fostering strong technical leadership and healthy team cultures
• Define and evolve our platform vision, including developer experience, internal tooling, CI/CD, infrastructure, observability, and reliability standards
• Oversee MLOps systems that support model development, training, deployment, monitoring, and governance in production
• Partner cross‑functionally with Product, ML, Data, Security, and Compliance to ensure the platform meets current and future needs
• Balance speed and stability, making thoughtful tradeoffs between innovation, cost, reliability, and operational excellence
• Set metrics and accountability for platform performance, reliability, and developer productivity

About You

• 10+ years experience leading platform, infrastructure, or reliability teams in a scaling startup environment, including navigating ambiguity, rapid growth, and the transition from early‑stage systems to more mature, repeatable platforms
• Strong understanding of cloud‑native infrastructure (GCP strongly preferred), Kubernetes, CI/CD, and modern DevOps practices
• Experience supporting machine learning systems in production, including model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management
• A track record of building reliable, scalable systems used by fast‑moving product teams
• Excellent people leadership skills — you know how to coach managers, grow talent, and build inclusive, high‑performing teams
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence across org boundaries
• Experience in data‑ or ML‑heavy products

Nice to haves

• Experience with geospatial data, image processing or mapping technology

If you don’t meet all of the above yet feel you have lots to offer, please apply anyway.

What You Get

• To be part of truly mission‑driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis.
• Flexible working environment with a lot of autonomy. We build our work days around our lives, not the other way around.
• Other benefits like a remote working budget, an educational budget and time to develop new skills.
• To be surrounded by an excellent, vibrant, smart team who have each other’s back and believe in a culture of openness, tolerance and respect.
• Equity and a competitive salary.

About Our Team

We are a group of 100 people from all over the world. Fifteen nationalities are represented in our team. We work remotely from eleven different countries and we are looking for candidates that are also living and working in one of these countries: United States, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Estonia, Portugal, France, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, and Canada. We meet up once a year in-person for our unforgettable team gathering event. We also offer the option to occasionally meet up for in‑person collaboration.

Diversity & Inclusion

We place enormous value on diversity and inclusion and strive to continually bring in people of all genders, races, creeds, ethnicities, abilities and backgrounds. We believe that the best ideas emerge when people with different perspectives and approaches work together on a problem.

We’re always looking to diversify our team further, but we’re proud of the fact that four out of the nine people on our leadership team are female, 46% of the overall team are female and 20% of the team are people of color. Our team speaks fifteen languages: English, Dutch, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Luxembourgish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Estonian, Danish and Korean.

Our values

• Tackling the climate crisis is our greatest mission.
• We act with urgency.
• Our curiosity fuels our growth.
• We recognize that change is constant, and we find joy and power in exploration.
• We’re rooted in diversity.
• Just as ecosystems need biodiversity to thrive, our resiliency comes from our differences.
• We care for each other.
• We love the power of machines but we nurture each other as humans.
• Trust is fundamental.
• We assume the best in everyone, and we share ideas openly so that we have a positive impact.

Use of AI in Our Hiring Process

We sometimes use AI tools to support parts of our hiring process, such as helping us manage applications more efficiently or ensuring job descriptions are clear and inclusive. But don’t worry, all hiring decisions are always made by people, not machines. Any data processed by AI is handled securely in line with GDPR and our Privacy Notice.