Senior Director of Platform Engineering & Reliability

OneStream Software

United States

On-site

USD 298,000 - 366,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Excellent Medical Plan

Dental & Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Vacation Time

Paid Holidays

Professional Development

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Job summary

OneStream Software seeks a Senior Director of Engineering to lead multiple engineering teams responsible for core platform capabilities. You will set technical direction, drive reliability, and partner with Product to ensure scalable, secure-by-default platforms enabling rapid product innovation.

You will guide architectural decisions, establish governance, and develop leaders while delivering on commitments across teams and functions.

Qualifications

15+ years of software engineering experience with 8+ years in multi-team leadership.
Proven success leading platform, infrastructure, or foundational architecture teams.
Strong understanding of scalable distributed systems, cloud platforms, service design, and platform operating models.
Experience driving engineering excellence: delivery, quality, reliability, security, and developer productivity.
Proven ability to hire and grow high-performing engineering leaders and teams.
Strong stakeholder management skills; able to align executives and teams on strategy, tradeoffs, and sequencing.

Responsibilities

Drive the Platform Engineering strategy and roadmap, aligned to business outcomes and product needs.
Partner with Product to deliver platform capabilities in a sustainable and scalable manner while ensuring clear architectural foundations are established
Establish and communicate platform priorities based on customer impact, risk reduction, cost efficiency, and developer productivity.
Lead execution across multiple teams and programs with a focus on predictable delivery, high quality, and measurable outcomes.
Build a culture of disciplined software engineering: strong planning, clear requirements, pragmatic architecture, and effective release management.
Ensure high-quality platform APIs, service contracts, backward compatibility, and versioning strategies
Own platform-wide reliability outcomes: availability, latency, error rates, and resilience patterns.
Partner with SRE/CloudOps to improve incident response, postmortems, operational runbooks, and reliability engineering practices.
Ensure platform services are designed with security-by-default, compliance alignment, and strong governance.
Work closely with Security teams to implement best practices for secrets management, secure SDLC, vulnerability management, and identity models.
Champion internal developer experience: self-service infrastructure, CI/CD modernization, test automation, and streamlined workflows.
Reduce friction and cognitive load for product teams by building tooling, documentation, and platform abstractions that scale.
Drive platform architectural direction: service boundaries, data patterns, eventing, multi-tenancy models, and consistency across systems.
Ensure long-term maintainability by managing technical debt and enabling modernization.
Establish and enforce platform standards (observability, security posture, patterns, tech choices) without becoming a bureaucratic blocker.
Lead, coach, and grow Engineering Directors, Engineering Managers, Staff+ Engineers, and technical leaders.
Build a talent strategy: hiring, onboarding, retention, performance management, and succession planning.
Create a culture of accountability, high trust, learning, and healthy engineering rigor.
Partner with Product, Quality, UX/Design, Customer Success, Support, etc. teams to ensure platform implementations are understood for customer/real-world impact or needs.
Communicate clearly to executives and stakeholders: roadmap status, risk, tradeoffs, and technical strategy.