Platform Engineering Technical Director: Cloud & Scale

Devopsroles; Washington; On-site; USD 265,000 - 340,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401K

Job summary

Vivint Smart Home, an NRG-owned company, seeks a Technical Director to set the technical vision for Platform Engineering, covering cloud services, event pipelines, APIs, and infrastructure behind millions of connected homes.

You will define multi-year strategy, drive architecture decisions, and partner with Mobile and Embedded teams to align interfaces and device-to-cloud protocols, while raising standards for reliability, security, and developer productivity.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience building and operating production software systems.
• 5+ years in principal-level or equivalent technical leadership roles.
• Track record setting technical direction for a large engineering organization.

Responsibilities

• Define multi-year technical vision and architecture roadmap for Platform Engineering.
• Drive architecture decisions across the platform, including service boundaries and APIs.
• Partner with Mobile and Embedded engineering to align platform interfaces and device-to-cloud protocols.
• Establish and govern platform standards for reliability, security, scalability, observability, and developer productivity.
• Advise executive leadership on major platform investments and risk.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud-native architecture

Principal leadership

Kubernetes

Event-driven systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GCP or AWS

Job description

Vivint Smart Home, an NRG-owned company, seeks a Technical Director to set the technical vision for Platform Engineering, covering cloud services, event pipelines, APIs, and infrastructure behind millions of connected homes.

You will define multi-year strategy, drive architecture decisions, and partner with Mobile and Embedded teams to align interfaces and device-to-cloud protocols, while raising standards for reliability, security, and developer productivity.