Head of Internal Platform Engineering - Remote & AI-Driven

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Performance-based bonuses

Remote-first environment

Health insurance reimbursement

401(k) plan with company match

Job summary

Confidential is seeking a technically hands-on Director of Engineering to lead architecture, development, and scalability of internal platforms powering our operations, data workflows, and business ecosystem.

You’ll own the engineering direction for mission-critical systems, drive architectural decisions, and mentor teams while pushing AI-powered tooling, automation, and developer productivity in a remote-first, fast-paced setting.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with leadership.
• Hands-on development in Python and TypeScript in production systems.
• Deep platform architecture experience: distributed systems, microservices, APIs, event-driven computing.
• Proven experience with AI-powered systems, LLM integrations, and evaluation workflows.
• Cloud infrastructure: AWS, GCP, or Azure; Kubernetes; observability and DevOps practices.
• Experience building internal platforms for operational workflows, data pipelines, or analytics.
• Strong technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural decision-making in fast-paced settings.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, development, and scalability of internal platforms powering operations and data workflows.
• Integrate AI agents, LLMs, and automation to streamline workflows and improve efficiency.
• Design scalable APIs, distributed services, and event-driven integrations across systems.
• Oversee QE strategy, automated testing, CI/CD gates, and production reliability.
• Drive AI-assisted testing and automated regression coverage for traditional and AI-enabled apps.
• Stay hands-on with design, code reviews, and troubleshooting of complex issues.
• Improve engineering productivity through AI-powered development workflows and tooling.
• Mentor engineers, set technical standards, and foster ownership and accountability.
• Collaborate with Product, AI/ML, Data, and Operations to deliver scalable solutions.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Distributed systems

Microservices

APIs

Event-driven architecture

AI-powered systems

LLMs integration

CI/CD

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

Quality Engineering

Leadership

Mentoring

Tools

LangGraph

Temporal

AI development tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Confidential is seeking a technically hands-on Director of Engineering to lead architecture, development, and scalability of internal platforms powering our operations, data workflows, and business ecosystem.

You’ll own the engineering direction for mission-critical systems, drive architectural decisions, and mentor teams while pushing AI-powered tooling, automation, and developer productivity in a remote-first, fast-paced setting.