The role 

As a Director of Engineering, Platform, you will be responsible for leading essential engineering and infrastructure initiatives that will impact the entire R&D organization at Glia and all its customers.

The work

• Ensure that Glia systems remain highly secure and robust during rapid customer growth by proactively leading regional availability and recoverability, data distribution, security, and compliance projects. 
• Lead the SRE function,  review, and implement the best practices for operations for all engineering teams in the company.
• Enable product engineering teams to fully adopt the DevOps approach by providing a necessary set of tools, training, and best practices, including the DevOps metrics dashboard.
• Lead development and maintenance of the fundamental software components of the Glia Platform, like libraries, tools, authentication, logging, monitoring, front-end components, and other modules.
• Supervise integration and unification of the infrastructure between Glia and the companies it acquires.
• Mentor and coach Engineering Managers and Technical Leaders inside the Platform Group.

Your group will consist of several engineering teams in Europe and North America, which will report to you. You will partner with the Director of Product, other Directors of Engineering, and the Security and Compliance team.

Our Tech Stack

Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes (AWS EKS), Nginx, Terraform
Persistence: PostgreSQL, Redis
CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins
Backend: Python, Elixir, and Ruby
Frontend: Javascript and React.js
Native mobile SDKs: Java and Swift

Candidate Requirements

• Experience in software engineering and technical operations in the cloud.
• Experience managing multiple teams and Engineering Managers.