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Senior Director of Engineering – Platform
| Company | Arkose Labs |
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| Location | San Mateo, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $225000 – $295000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 5+ years of leadership experience in Platform, Infrastructure, SRE, or related fields, including experience managing managers.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong background in public and private cloud infrastructure.
- Proven ability to build, scale, and lead high-performing infrastructure and cloud teams.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and networking, including TCP/IP, TLS, and HTTP.
- Hands-on experience with AWS services, such as CloudFront, Lambda, DynamoDB, ALB, NLB, EKS, Athena, and S3.
- Proficiency with Azure services, including Front Door, Event Hub, AKS, App Gateway, and NLB.
- Experience working with data pipelines and optimizing data flow architectures.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitHub Workflows and Actions.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (Golang or Python).
- Expertise in Kubernetes and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools, such as Terraform.
- Experience working with modern SaaS-based software stacks.
- Strong distributed system design, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
- Collaborative mindset, with a passion for learning, building, and delivering high-quality products.
Responsibilities
- Leading people, process and product infrastructure that would solve high reliability, low latency, auto scalability and security.
- Managing and coaching Engineering Managers within Platform organization and collaborating with other directors and department leaders.
- Aligning with company OKRs and translating them to projects and tasks that will be successfully delivered.
- Contributing to the production systems in infra builds, automation, edge/CDN, edge routing, region and geo based routing, load balancers and ingress controllers, designing and building AWS and Azure infrastructure for Arkose services.
- Working on our OpenTelemetry-based observability stack to include more signals that can be acted upon.
- Improving reliability by identifying and addressing gaps in our architecture, services and tooling.
- Building tools, automation and circuit breakers that help Arkose to adapt to changing attack patterns.
Preferred Qualifications
No preferred qualifications provided.
