Director of Platform Engineering, Productboard
Product management platform
Job no longer available
Product management platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help companies across the globe build truly excellent products.
Role
Who you are
- Experienced leader of leaders: You've managed multiple teams before, steering them to success
- Mentorship: You've got a knack for helping team members grow, guiding them in their careers, and fostering a positive work environment
- Team Player: You've worked cross-functionally before, understanding the importance of pulling together with other departments and leaders
- Budget Management: Large budgets? No problem. You know how to allocate and track funds effectively
- Technical Background: A strong understanding, particularly of infrastructure and backend workings, is crucial. You know the nuts and bolts of services like AWS, Kubernetes, and the broader ecosystem
- Scaling and Reliability: With your involvement in SRE practices, you'll be at the forefront of ensuring our platform's robustness and readiness
- Hands-off Coding: While you understand tech deeply, your role here won't involve diving into code. Your skills will be applied in leadership and strategy
What the job involves
- Platform Engineering is a discipline central to modern tech-driven organizations, providing a robust foundation upon which applications and services are built, deployed, and scaled
- At Productboard, Platform Engineering isn't just about the infrastructure; it's the intersection of development tools, infrastructure automation, and operational best practices
- Our Platform Engineering efforts ensure that developers have a paved path to build software and that applications have a resilient, efficient, and scalable environment to thrive
- We're searching for a Director of Platform Engineering to steer this pivotal function
- This role will encompass the management of five core teams, each contributing distinct expertise:
- Infrastructure: The muscle behind our cloud services, handling everything from AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters to our observability platform, Kafka event bus, and CDN. They’re responsible for making sure our platform is resilient, scalable, and cost-effective
- DevX: This team is all about optimizing the productivity of our engineers. They handle CI/CD and develop tools to enhance local development and automate routine tasks
- Quality Engineering (QE): QE ensures robustness at all levels by designing testing frameworks and strategizing from unit tests up to performance testing
- Monolith Gardeners: Our Ruby monolith’s custodians, ensure its stability, scalability, and optimal cost operation. While they're not on the product development frontline, they play a crucial role in maintaining our system's backbone
- Data Engineering: Turning raw data into actionable insights, they manage our data infrastructure, pipelines, and visualization tools, aiding the business in making data-driven decisions
- This role doesn’t stop there. You'll be the guiding force for our core guilds in Architecture, Backend, and Frontend, and work hand-in-hand with our Security team to make sure we're ticking all compliance boxes
- Leading a talented group of three managers and a collective force of 25 brilliant minds, you’ll be central to making sure our platform remains top-notch
- Manage and Mentor: Lead and coach your teams, fostering an environment of growth and high performance
- Strategize: Lay out the roadmap for our Platform Engineering efforts, looking at both immediate needs and long-term goals
- Recruit: As we expand, you'll play a part in bringing aboard talented individuals to bolster our technical capabilities
- Engage with the core guilds: You'll also be the executive sponsor for our core guilds around Architecture, Backend, and Frontend. This means you'll help set the direction and back them up as they work to streamline our engineering approaches across the company
- Collaborate with Security: Team up with the Security department to make sure we're hitting our marks on SoC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance
- Oversee the budget: With the Infrastructure team handling a big chunk of our software spend, you'll keep an eye on budget allocation and usage, ensuring we get the most out of our resources
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Productboard is a product management system which plays a major role in helping businesses understand their market, letting them get the best products to market quickly. The platform is particularly focused on helping companies understand what customers require from them, enabling sound decisions to be made on what to prioritize.
The platform organizes project management with customer feedback as its primary guiding factor, helping businesses identify the most important trends based on demand. The scope of its offerings enables it to provide thousands of leading companies with the various tools they need to drive growth. It continues to add new capabilities to bring extra value to this customer base.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Feb 2022
$125m
SERIES D
Apr 2021
$72m
SERIES C
Total funding: $257.7m
Company benefits
- Competitive stock options
- Continuous professional growth
- Investment into your health & wellness
- Free food and catered lunches
- Pet-friendly offices
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Hubert Palan
(Co-Founder & CEO)Startup Mentor, Advisor and Angel Investor. Previously VP of Product Management at GoodData and Head of Product and Marketing at Maestro Market.
Daniel Hejl
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously Senior Software Engineer at Trumaker, TopMonks and ICZ, as well as Software Engineer at Allianz Direct New Europe and Qbizm Technologies.
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