Director of Platform Engineering, Trunk Tools

$189-240k

+ Equity

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Terraform

Pulumi

Senior and Expert level

New York

AI for construction project management

Open for applications

AI for construction project management

21-100 employees

FintechB2BArtificial IntelligenceProductivityConstruction

Open for applications

$189-240k

+ Equity

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Terraform

Pulumi

Senior and Expert level

New York

21-100 employees

FintechB2BArtificial IntelligenceProductivityConstruction

Company mission

To turn unstructured construction data into actionable insights through intelligent agents that automate tedious tasks.

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Company

Role

Who you are

8+ years of infrastructure experience, with 2+ years in a formal leadership role
Deep expertise in Terraform/Pulumi, Kubernetes, and / or AWS/GCP
A "Service Mindset"—you view product engineers as your primary customers

What the job involves

As our first dedicated Platform leader, you will transition our infrastructure from a collection of startup "hacks" to a professional, scalable Internal Developer Platform (IDP)
You will be hands-on in the beginning, validating the core systems while simultaneously scaling the platform team with the right SRE, Devops, and platform engineering talent
You aren't just building a platform; you are building an organization that can support hundreds of engineers and millions of concurrent users
Platform-as-a-Product: Treat the platform as an internal product, conducting "user research" with our product teams to prioritize the roadmap
Environments & Data: Own providing rock-solid, stable development environments and consistent staging data for teams to work reliably with
FinOps & Governance: Take full P&L responsibility for cloud costs, optimizing our multi-million dollar annual spend without sacrificing performance
Greenfield Architecture: Design and drive the "Paved Road" for our engineering org, focusing on CI/CD, Kubernetes orchestration, and cloud-native infrastructure
Team Building: Own the full lifecycle of the Platform team, from writing job descriptions to onboarding and mentoring
Observability & Reliability: Establish our first formal SLOs (Service Level Objectives) and an incident response framework that minimizes downtime
Security Integration: "Shift left" by baking security protocols directly into the deployment pipeline, and setting the standards for our security posture

Our take

The US construction industry is worth over $850B, but it’s plagued by a worsening short staffing issue that’s leading to spiralling costs, and a real chance of decreased on-site safety. This is something that Trunk Tools is looking to address.

Trunk Tools is revolutionizing construction documentation with an AI-powered platform that automates the organization of unstructured project files. It processes documents like PDFs, spreadsheets, and blueprints. Which also allows teams to spot any potential project issues and surface insights.

With a growing customer base and substantial funding, Trunk Tools is really making a name for itself. Recent capital acquired will help it further expand its team and platform and put it in a position to lead the construction software market.

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Company

Company HQ

SoHo, New York, NY

Leadership

Sarah Buchner

(Founder & CEO)

A Stanford business grad who worked as a Carpenter with HB Tischlerei, then served as Lead Project Manager at Neumayer ZT. Subsequently held various senior roles at STRABAG, including Group Leader of Digitization / Digital Consultancy.

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