Platform Engineering Lead: AI-Driven Cloud-Native .NET

American Innovations; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive health benefits

Matching 401k

Paid family leave

Life and disability insurance

Supportive environment

Job summary

American Innovations seeks a senior platform engineering leader to guide architecture, mentoring, and delivery of mission-crITICAL cloud-native .NET applications. You will drive the platform team's roadmap, champion AI-enabled development, and ensure secure, scalable, observable systems with 4-6 engineers under your leadership.

You will partner with business, product, and security teams to align technical strategy with organizational goals, while advancing hands-on development when needed and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Software Engineering experience or equivalent
• 5 years as a solution architect, tech lead or team lead
• 3+ years of people management experience
• 3+ years responsible for technology direction, execution, and application support
• 2+ years of experience with agile transformation
• Advanced proficiency with AI-powered development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT)
• Experience in a cloud-native environment
• Strong proficiency in C# and the .NET ecosystem
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins)
• Experience designing/deploying .NET apps in Azure
• Experience with observability platforms (Datadog, Grafana, Dynatrace)
• Experience deploying in containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Understanding of microservices architecture and performance optimization
• Experience designing secure solutions in regulated cloud environments
• Experience building internal developer platforms
• Experience with IAM is a plus

Responsibilities

• Own the platform team's product roadmap by gathering requirements and prioritizing enhancements
• Mentor and guide the platform engineering team while supporting prototype projects
• Ensure craftsmanship, security, availability, resilience, and observability of solutions
• Champion AI technologies across the development lifecycle to improve efficiency and quality
• Develop actionable short and long-term product roadmaps with business leaders and engineers
• Guide design decisions and oversee a 4-6 person engineering team to meet roadmaps
• Architect and maintain robust cross-platform cloud-native apps using .NET
• Continuously improve processes and foster innovative thinking across the team
• Build strong relationships across locations and with stakeholders

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

AI adoption

Cloud-native

C#/.NET

Architecture

Agile transformation

People management

DevOps

Observability

Education

Computer Science or Engineering degree

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Datadog

Grafana

Dynatrace

Job description

American Innovations seeks a senior platform engineering leader to guide architecture, mentoring, and delivery of mission-crITICAL cloud-native .NET applications. You will drive the platform team's roadmap, champion AI-enabled development, and ensure secure, scalable, observable systems with 4-6 engineers under your leadership.

You will partner with business, product, and security teams to align technical strategy with organizational goals, while advancing hands-on development when needed and