Director, Technical Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

Compass, Inc.; Town of Boston (NY); On-site; USD 275,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive program

Paid time off

Benefits package

401(k) plan

FSAs

Commuter program

Life and disability insurance

Maven program

Carrot fertility benefits

UrbanSitter

Employee Assistance Program

Pet insurance

Job summary

Compass is seeking a Director of Engineering for Technical Infrastructure to own the platform every Compass engineer builds on. You will set the long-term vision for cloud, build and release, data infrastructure, and AI-enabled development lifecycle, while leading managers and senior leaders across distributed teams.

You will structure organizations, recruit and develop talent, and drive cost discipline, reliability, and developer productivity at scale.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering with deep infrastructure or platform depth.
• 8+ years of engineering management experience including hiring and developing leaders.
• Ownership of a large shared technology surface and driving standards across teams you don’t control.
• Strong command of AWS (GCP a plus) and cost observability as architectural concerns.
• Demonstrated reliability/operational excellence at scale and incident management experience.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and build a structured, phased plan with resourcing over multiple years.
• Security and compliance aptitude across IAM, zero-trust, data isolation, and SOC 2/PCI DSS standards.

Responsibilities

• Set long-term technical direction for the Golden Path across cloud platform, build and release, data infrastructure, and AI-enabled lifecycle.
• Manage and grow Engineering Managers and senior leaders; coach and develop teams.
• Design organization structure to meet customer, business, and technology needs; drive cross-team collaboration.
• Drive reliability, incident response, and deployment safety; reduce blast radius of failures.

Skills

Software engineering

Engineering management

Cloud architecture

Distributed systems

Build & release

Cost optimization

Observability

Leadership

Tools

AWS

GCP

Job description

Compass is seeking a Director of Engineering for Technical Infrastructure to own the platform every Compass engineer builds on. You will set the long-term vision for cloud, build and release, data infrastructure, and AI-enabled development lifecycle, while leading managers and senior leaders across distributed teams.

You will structure organizations, recruit and develop talent, and drive cost discipline, reliability, and developer productivity at scale.