Senior Director, Platform Engineering — AI-First Dev Platform

Insider, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 295,000 - 345,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

Health Benefits

401(k) Savings

Pet Insurance

Job summary

Insider, Inc. is seeking a Senior Director of Platform Engineering to lead and own the cloud infrastructure essential for the company’s engineering organization. You will drive the AI-first transformation and enhance developer experiences across large-scale systems.

The ideal candidate has extensive leadership experience in platform engineering, a strong background in AI-assisted development, and a desire to innovate in an evolving tech landscape. You will be responsible for end-to-end management of systems ensuring efficiency and reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience building and leading platform engineering teams.
• A proven track record of improving developer productivity.
• Direct, hands-on experience with AI-assisted development.

Responsibilities

• Own the foundation for the engineering organization, including cloud infrastructure.
• Define and own multi-year technical strategy for Platform Engineering.
• Lead key decisions on scalability, performance, security, and cost.

Skills

Cloud Engineering

Developer Experience

Site Reliability

DevOps / Release Engineering

AI-assisted development

CI/CD systems

Infrastructure as Code

Project Management

Education

10+ years of real-world experience in engineering

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Insider, Inc. is seeking a Senior Director of Platform Engineering to lead and own the cloud infrastructure essential for the company’s engineering organization. You will drive the AI-first transformation and enhance developer experiences across large-scale systems.

The ideal candidate has extensive leadership experience in platform engineering, a strong background in AI-assisted development, and a desire to innovate in an evolving tech landscape. You will be responsible for end-to-end management of systems ensuring efficiency and reliability.