Head of Platform Engineering & Infrastructure

Compass; Boca Raton (FL); On-site; USD 275,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive programs (cash/equity)

Paid vacation & holidays

Health benefits

401(k) plan

FSAs

Commuter program

Life and disability insurance

Pet insurance

Job summary

Compass is seeking a Director of Engineering for Technical Infrastructure to own the platform used by all Compass engineers. You will drive a multi-year vision across cloud, build and release, data infrastructure, developer experience, and AI-enabled development lifecycle.

You will manage engineering leaders, shape organizational structure, and ensure cost-effective, reliable delivery at scale. You will partner with Principal Engineers on enduring architectural decisions, grow leaders, and

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with deep infrastructure or platform depth.
• Strong leadership experience managing engineers and leaders.
• Experience owning large shared technology surfaces and driving adoption across teams.
• Fluency with cloud cost optimization and cloud economics (AWS, GCP).

Responsibilities

• Set long-term technical direction for the Golden Path and infrastructure platform.
• Lead and develop Engineering Managers and senior leaders; build succession depth.
• Structure organizations to meet customer, business, and technology needs.
• Improve reliability, deployment safety, and incident response.
• Own cost discipline at scale across the infrastructure.
• Accelerate developer productivity with mature tooling and AI-enabled workflows.
• Communicate strategic plans and OKRs to senior leadership.

Skills

Software engineering

Infrastructure depth

Cloud architecture

Distributed systems

Build & release engineering

Managed data platforms

Large-scale operations

Tools

AWS

GCP

Job description

Compass is seeking a Director of Engineering for Technical Infrastructure to own the platform used by all Compass engineers. You will drive a multi-year vision across cloud, build and release, data infrastructure, developer experience, and AI-enabled development lifecycle.

You will manage engineering leaders, shape organizational structure, and ensure cost-effective, reliable delivery at scale. You will partner with Principal Engineers on enduring architectural decisions, grow leaders, and