Head of Technical Infrastructure & Platform

Compass; Madison (NJ); On-site; USD 275,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive programs

Paid vacation

Holidays & sick time

Parental leave

Recharge leave

Medical benefits

Dental & vision benefits

401(k) plan

FSAs

Commuter program

Life & disability insurance

Maven support

Fertility benefits

UrbanSitter

Employee Assistance Program

Pet insurance

Job summary

Compass is seeking a Director of Engineering for Technical Infrastructure to own the platform engineers rely on. You will shape the Golden Path across cloud, build and release, data infra, and AI-enabled development, guiding multiple teams and setting multi-year strategy.

You will grow Engineering Managers, design scalable org structures, and drive cost discipline while maintaining high reliability and developer productivity.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering with deep infrastructure or platform depth.
• 8+ years of engineering management including hiring, developing, and promoting engineers and leading senior ICs.
• Ownership of a large shared technology surface with cross-team adoption and standards.
• Strong command of AWS (GCP a plus) and cost observability in cloud environments.
• Experience setting reliability targets, incident management, and progressive delivery.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity and translate problems into structured plans.
• Security and compliance aptitude in cloud environments (SOC 2, PCI DSS).

Responsibilities

• Set the long-term technical direction for the Golden Path across cloud platform, build and release, data infra, developer experience, and AI-enabled lifecycle.
• Manage and grow Engineering Managers and senior technical leaders; build succession depth.
• Structure teams to cover technology areas to meet customer, business, and tech needs.
• Reduce blast radius and duration of production failures; establish observability and release safety targets.
• Shape and execute infrastructure cost-optimization strategy; track metrics and forecast costs.
• Drive build speed, testing quality, AI-assisted development, and tooling maturity for developer productivity.
• Drive high-level architectural plans and OKRs to senior leadership.

Skills

Technical depth

Manager of managers

Infra ownership

Cloud cost fluency

Reliability focus

Ambiguity tolerance

Security & compliance

Job description

Compass is seeking a Director of Engineering for Technical Infrastructure to own the platform engineers rely on. You will shape the Golden Path across cloud, build and release, data infra, and AI-enabled development, guiding multiple teams and setting multi-year strategy.

You will grow Engineering Managers, design scalable org structures, and drive cost discipline while maintaining high reliability and developer productivity.