Executive Vice President of Engineering Operations & Deliverability, Upsun
+ Stock options (discretionary)
Cloud hosting platform
Job no longer available
Cloud hosting platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
+ Stock options (discretionary)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable forward-thinking organisations to build, iterate, and responsibly scale amazing digital experiences - with zero time managing infrastructure.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrated expertise in scaling engineering organizations: You have successfully led and expanded engineering teams beyond 100 members, effectively managing managers and directors while fostering alignment within diverse global, and remote teams
- Your deep understanding of the practices that drive early success, combined with your ability to implement scalable structures and processes, ensures sustainable growth and operational excellence
- Operational focus with a strategic mindset: With a strong ability to implement and optimize processes, you excel at translating leadership's strategy into actionable, operational goals
- Your leadership ensures the team balances day-to-day execution with long-term planning, enabling consistent delivery and platform scalability
- Expertise in modern engineering and operational practices: You bring a deep understanding of SRE practices, CI/CD pipelines, PaaS, infrastructure management, and/or web application development
- Your operational expertise ensures platform stability, resilience, and continuous improvement
- A track record of driving measurable outcomes: You have a proven ability to align teams around key objectives, leveraging metrics and data-driven insights to track progress, deliver results, and continuously refine workflows
- Strategic and impactful communication: You excel at articulating priorities, progress, and outcomes to technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring alignment at all levels. Your communication fosters trust and collaboration across departments
- A commitment to team empowerment: You create an environment where engineers feel supported and encouraged to take ownership of their work
- Through mentorship and professional development, you cultivate a culture of accountability, innovation, and pride in delivery
What the job involves
- Platform.sh is seeking an Executive Vice President of Engineering Operations & Deliverability to scale and refine our remote, globally distributed engineering organization
- Reporting to the CTO, this role is at the heart of connecting strategy to execution, empowering teams to operate at their best while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous growth
- As a leader in this role, you’ll play a key part in shaping a scalable, efficient engineering framework that positions us for sustainable success
- As the EVP of Engineering Operations & Deliverability, your expertise will be pivotal in guiding and empowering leaders across four key streams, ensuring their teams deliver exceptional results while seamlessly aligning operations with business objectives
- Operations (SRE): Leverage your experience to foster a proactive, reliability-focused culture, transforming platform stability and operational resilience across our fleet of tens of thousands of servers
- Platform Engineering: Help strengthen, scale, and shape the architecture and systems that support current and future growth
- Customer-Experience Engineering: Provide insights to drive the creation of customer-centric features, ensuring every development decision adds measurable value and elevates the user experience
- Engineering Operations: Enable engineering excellence by refining processes, selecting the right tools, and fostering efficiency
- This newly created role reflects our deep commitment to scaling intentionally and thoughtfully
- You’ll play a pivotal part in aligning engineering efforts with strategic goals, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and driving innovations that enable long-term success
- With the exciting opportunity to lead transformational initiatives, you will help shape the future of our platform and ensure it remains at the forefront of industry innovation
- Partner closely with the CTO to translate high-level strategy into actionable goals for the engineering teams. Your initial focus will be on establishing structures, reporting frameworks, and processes to articulate engineering’s contributions and enable effective prioritization
- Ensure resource allocation balances the development of new features with maintenance and technical debt management, emphasizing scalability, reliability, and efficiency. Proactively embed SRE principles to enhance platform stability and operational resilience
- Deepen alignment between engineering, product, and design teams to deliver exceptional solutions. By fostering early and frequent collaboration, you’ll ensure engineering’s contributions are integral to creating user-focused, innovative products
- Empower engineers to take initiative, drive measurable results, and continuously improve. Build an environment where diverse perspectives are celebrated and team members feel inspired to grow, learn, and succeed
- Lead key projects that elevate the engineering organization’s agility and scalability. With a focus on reinvention and innovation, you will position Platform.sh for continued success and growth
Application process
- You can expect 5 interviews on Google Meet to follow the order below
- Should you successfully move through the entire process you will have the opportunity to meet with a variety of Platformers
- 45 Minutes with Talent Acquisition
- 60 Minutes with Hiring Manager (Chief Technology Officer)
- 60 Minutes with Chief Product Officer
- 45 Minutes with Team (Direct Reports)
- 60 Minutes with Chief Executive Officer & Chief Product Advocacy Officer
- All roles require background checks
Our take
Upsun, formerly Platform.sh, makes it easier for web developers to build websites and apps without having to worry about maintaining web infrastructure – something that’s become increasingly complex on the cloud. Using the platform, developers can deploy sophisticated, out-of-the-box architectures and infrastructures.
There’s been a lot of activity in the lucrative Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) market over the last few years. Indeed, the market is growing at nearly 20% annually, with companies like Heroku and Vercel doing very well. However, with a large customer base that includes Orange, Adobe, Nestlé, and The Financial Times, Upsun is doing more than just holding its own.
After a major funding round in 2022, which was led by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, the company has continued to rapidly grow its globally distributed workforce. Upsun maintains a keen eye on expanding further into the US as well as Western Europe.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2022
$140m
SERIES D
May 2018
$34m
SERIES C
Total funding: $181.3m
Company benefits
- Competitive PTO
- Parental leave
- Remote working/flexibility
- Healthcare, dental, and vision (US and France staff only)
- 401k, with employer contribution (US staff only)
- Extra compensation for on-call ops and support staff
- Company shares (discretionary)
- Annual budget for professional development
- Unlimited Platform.sh accounts
- Annual company retreat
Company HQ
Bonne-Nouvelle, Paris, France
Leadership
Fred Plais
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded and was CEO of Commerce Guys. Former General Manager of web and community development company AF83, and former Head of Music, Games & Premium Content at telecommunication company SFR (Vodafone Group).
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