Director of Internal Platform Engineering (Remote)

Remotebridge; United States; Remote; USD 280,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

PTO

401K match

Job summary

micro1 is seeking a Director of Engineering, Internal Platforms, to lead the architecture, development, and scalability of our internal platforms powering operations, data workflows, and the business ecosystem. You will own the engineering direction of mission-critical systems while ensuring reliability, scalability, and automation.

You’ll lead engineering teams, establish technical standards, and drive AI-powered tooling and testing automation to accelerate delivery without compromising

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years in engineering leadership.
• Hands-on development in Python, TypeScript, or similar languages with production systems.
• Deep platform architecture expertise: distributed systems, microservices, APIs, event-driven designs.
• Practical experience with AI-powered systems and LLM integrations.
• Experience improving engineering productivity via automation and AI-enabled tooling.
• Quality Engineering expertise: automated testing, CI/CD, reliability.
• Cloud proficiency with AWS, GCP, or Azure; Kubernetes; observability and DevOps practices.
• Experience building internal platforms for workflows, data pipelines, analytics, or complex business processes.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers, make architectural decisions, and operate in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead Internal Platform Engineering: own architecture, development, and scalability for operational platforms.
• Build Intelligent Systems by integrating AI agents and automation into internal tools.
• Drive Platform Architecture: design scalable APIs, services, and data workflows.
• Own QE: lead automated testing, CI/CD quality gates, and release validation.
• Advance Testing Automation: implement AI-assisted testing and regression frameworks.
• Stay Hands-On: contribute to design, review code, and troubleshoot production issues.
• Improve Engineering Productivity: introduce AI-assisted workflows and developer tooling.
• Lead Engineering Teams: mentor engineers, set standards, drive execution.
• Partner Cross-Functionally: work with Product, Data, AI/ML, and Operations.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Distributed systems

Microservices

AI/ML tooling

CI/CD

AWS/GCP/Azure

Kubernetes

Observability

Leadership

Tools

LangGraph

Temporal

Job description

micro1 is seeking a Director of Engineering, Internal Platforms, to lead the architecture, development, and scalability of our internal platforms powering operations, data workflows, and the business ecosystem. You will own the engineering direction of mission-critical systems while ensuring reliability, scalability, and automation.

You’ll lead engineering teams, establish technical standards, and drive AI-powered tooling and testing automation to accelerate delivery without compromising