Director of Infrastructure & Platform Strategy

TurboSquid by Shutterstock; Dublin; On-site; EUR 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

TurboSquid by Shutterstock seeks a Director of Engineering to lead infrastructure strategy across GIPHY platforms, focusing on scalability, reliability, maintainability, and cost. The role partners with SRE and engineering leaders to enable scalable growth, while overseeing vendor relationships and technology evaluations.

The position drives technical planning, evaluates emerging technologies, and aligns engineering priorities with business goals.

Qualifications

• 10+ years engineering experience.
• 5+ years of leadership and people-management experience.
• Experience in infrastructure, platforms, distributed systems, search, AI, or large-scale consumer tech.
• Strong understanding of cloud infra, reliability, observability, capacity planning, and cost optimization.
• Experience managing strategic technology vendors and contracts.
• Strong executive and cross-functional communication skills.
• Ability to evaluate unfamiliar technologies and make pragmatic build/buy/adopt/defer decisions.
• Collaborative, low-ego leadership style with strong judgment and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Own infrastructure and technical strategy with focus on scalability and cost.
• Monitor spend, capacity, and commitments; optimize cost/performance.
• Manage AWS and other vendor relationships.
• Support contract negotiations and renewals.
• Partner with SRE and leadership on reliability and security risk.
• Evaluate new technologies via prototypes and due diligence.
• Collaborate with Product, BD, and partners on scale and integration.
• Represent Engineering in partner and vendor conversations.
• Oversee external IT support and related vendor relationships.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Cloud infrastructure

Cost optimization

Vendor management

Distributed systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Reliability engineering

Strategic planning

Job description

TurboSquid by Shutterstock seeks a Director of Engineering to lead infrastructure strategy across GIPHY platforms, focusing on scalability, reliability, maintainability, and cost. The role partners with SRE and engineering leaders to enable scalable growth, while overseeing vendor relationships and technology evaluations.

The position drives technical planning, evaluates emerging technologies, and aligns engineering priorities with business goals.