Platform Engineering Director

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Responsibilities

• ▹Define and execute the platform engineering strategy aligned with business objectives
• ▹Lead and manage the Platform Engineering team to high performance
• ▹Establish and govern best practices, standards, and architecture for platform services and production cloud infrastructure
• ▹Oversee the design and development of developer platforms enabling application delivery, CI/CD, and deployment automation
• ▹Design and operate scalable, highly available, and reliable production systems and services
• ▹Lead initiatives for infrastructure as code (IaC), observability, and monitoring
• ▹Provide expert-level technical leadership during complex platform and production incidents
• ▹Recruit, mentor, and develop platform engineers at all levels
• ▹Allocate resources effectively across multiple platform initiatives
• ▹Drive adoption of modern platform engineering practices (GitOps, service mesh, API gateways)
• ▹Ensure platform and production infrastructure security, compliance, and cost optimization
• ▹Design and own disaster recovery, backup, and high-availability strategies

Requirements

• ▹10+ years of experience in software and platform/infrastructure engineering, including senior technical leadership
• ▹Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• ▹Proven experience leading platform or infrastructure engineering teams, including managers and senior ICs, in distributed and matrixed environments
• ▹Deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, containerization, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD
• ▹Experience designing, building, and operating developer platforms or internal PaaS
• ▹Knowledge of platform engineering patterns (golden paths, paved roads), service mesh, and API management
• ▹Strong background in production system architecture, capacity planning, performance optimization, and incident leadership
• ▹Excellent communication skills with senior and executive stakeholders

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Flexible hybrid work (up to 3 days remote per week)
• ▹Health and life insurance
• ▹Shareholding opportunities and additional financial benefits (country-dependent)
• ▹Commuter allowance
• ▹Comprehensive learning and development programs

About the company

Ledger is the global platform for digital assets and Web3, securing over 20% of the world's crypto assets through its devices. Headquartered in Paris, with offices in Vierzon, Grenoble, Montpellier, London, Portland, Geneva, Zurich, and Central Singapore, its team of around 600 professionals has sold more than 7.5 million hardware wallets across 200 countries.