Senior Director, Platform Engineering (Remote)

OneStream Software; Rochester (MI); On-site; USD 229,000 - 280,000; Full time

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Job summary

OneStream is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple engineering teams delivering scalable product capabilities and foundational architecture. You will own technical direction, drive operational excellence, and ensure delivery predictability across the engineering org.

Collaboration with Product, Security, CloudOps, and other leaders is essential to build platforms that are secure-by-default and capable of rapid product innovation.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience with 8+ years leading multi-team engineering organizations.
• Experience leading platform, infrastructure, or foundational architecture teams in a modern SaaS/product company.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Drive the Engineering strategy and roadmap, aligned to business outcomes and product needs.
• Partner with Product to deliver product capabilities in a sustainable and scalable manner while ensuring clear architectural foundations are established.
• Establish and communicate 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.
• Partner with SRE/CloudOps to improve incident response, postmortems, operational runbooks, and reliability engineering practices.
• Ensure services are designed with security-by-default, compliance alignment, and strong governance.
• Work closely with Security teams to implement best practices for 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 work with platform for services or abstractions that scale.
• Ensure long-term maintainability by managing technical debt and enabling modernization.
• 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.

Job description

OneStream is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead multiple engineering teams delivering scalable product capabilities and foundational architecture. You will own technical direction, drive operational excellence, and ensure delivery predictability across the engineering org.

Collaboration with Product, Security, CloudOps, and other leaders is essential to build platforms that are secure-by-default and capable of rapid product innovation.