VP, Reliability & Platform Engineering

HP; Vancouver (WA); On-site; USD 320,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Employee assistance program

Flexible spending account

Life insurance

Generous time off

Job summary

HP is seeking a Vice President of Reliability within the CTO, Software organization to define and lead the reliability strategy for shared platform services powering HP’s products. This executive will drive availability, observability, performance, and operational excellence at global scale.

You will build and guide a diverse team of reliability, SRE, and performance engineers, embed reliability in architecture and development, and partner with platform, product, and security leaders to raise

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field; a Ph.D. is preferred.
• Current or prior experience operating at the VP level in engineering within an established technology company.
• 15+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, platform, or reliability engineering, including 8+ years leading engineering organizations through senior leadership roles.
• Proven success building and scaling high‑performing engineering teams that deliver shared capabilities used across large, complex product or platform environments.
• Experience leading reliability or platform engineering in a global technology company operating at significant scale.
• Experience applying AI and automation to software operations, incident response, and engineering productivity.
• Experience supporting platforms or services that underpin products used by millions of customers and/or large‑scale commercial businesses generating more than $100 million in annual revenue.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the reliability vision, strategy, operating model, and execution roadmap for shared platform services across developer experience, data and AI, security, and infrastructure.
• Build and lead a high-performing, inclusive organization of reliability, observability, performance, and resilience leaders and engineers.
• Establish and scale modern site reliability engineering (SRE) practices, including AI-enabled SRE, service-level objectives and indicators, error budgets, production readiness reviews, service maturity models, reliability consulting, and embedded SRE engagement models.
• Lead the observability platform and strategy, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards, telemetry standards, service health visibility, and developer-facing operational tooling.
• Own incident management and resilience operations, including major incident command, escalation models, on-call standards, blameless postmortems, disaster recovery, resilience exercises, and fault-injection testing.
• Lead performance and scalability engineering, including load testing, performance profiling, latency optimization, capacity forecasting, and scale validation for critical platform services.
• Drive operational intelligence and automation, including operational metrics, service insights, anomaly detection, and the application of AI to improve reliability engineering and operational response.
• Partner closely with platform, product, security, and engineering executives to embed reliability into architecture, delivery, and operations across the software lifecycle.
• Champion a culture of accountability, engineering excellence, continuous improvement, and customer‑centric decision‑making.

Skills

SRE leadership

Cloud-native

AI in operations

Executive influence

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree

Ph.D. preferred

Job description

HP is seeking a Vice President of Reliability within the CTO, Software organization to define and lead the reliability strategy for shared platform services powering HP’s products. This executive will drive availability, observability, performance, and operational excellence at global scale.

You will build and guide a diverse team of reliability, SRE, and performance engineers, embed reliability in architecture and development, and partner with platform, product, and security leaders to raise