Founding Leader, Application Platforms & DevOps

Floor & Decor Holdings Inc. (old); Georgia; On-site; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunities

401k with company match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Paid vacation and sick time

Job summary

Floor & Decor is assembling a dedicated Application Platforms team in Atlanta. As the founding leader, you will set the platform strategy, hire and mentor engineers, and personally build the first generation of services. This is a hands-on, player-coach role shaping charter, tech choices, operating model, and culture from day one.

The role focuses on establishing CI/CD tooling, developer experience, and SOX-aligned controls, with a path to scale runtime and integration as the team grows.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE, with 3+ years leading engineers or technical teams.
• Hands-on experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub, Argo) and understanding delivery controls for compliance.
• Strong grasp of developer tooling and engineering practices, including testing frameworks, application frameworks, and security scanning in the pipeline.
• Knowledge of observability tools (Dynatrace, Grafana, OpsGenie).
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and container runtimes.
• Familiarity with integration patterns (APIs, messaging, streaming).
• Proven ability to build a team from a small base, set priorities, and deliver with limited resources.
• Strong communication skills with engineers and senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision, roadmap, and operating model for Application Platforms, treating the platform as a product with developers as customers
• Roll up your sleeves to design, build, and operate early CI/CD and developer tooling capabilities while the team is small
• Recruit, hire, and grow a team of platform engineers; coach and develop the associate engineer on the team today
• Sequence work deliberately across the five functions, making build/buy/partner decisions as capacity grows
• Partner with application development leaders to gather requirements and measure platform adoption and developer experience
• Work with Internal Audit and Security to maintain SOX-compliant change and deployment controls without slowing delivery
• Manage vendor and tool relationships, including licensing, renewals, and roadmap alignment
• Define and track service levels, reliability targets, and cost for platform services
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Security, Data, and Enterprise Architecture on standards and shared capabilities
• Establish documentation, self-service patterns, and golden paths that reduce the load on the platform team

Skills

Lead engineers

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps practices

Observability tooling

Kubernetes

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub

Argo

Dynatrace

Grafana

OpsGenie

APIs

Job description

Floor & Decor is assembling a dedicated Application Platforms team in Atlanta. As the founding leader, you will set the platform strategy, hire and mentor engineers, and personally build the first generation of services. This is a hands-on, player-coach role shaping charter, tech choices, operating model, and culture from day one.

The role focuses on establishing CI/CD tooling, developer experience, and SOX-aligned controls, with a path to scale runtime and integration as the team grows.