As the Director of Platform Engineering at Checkr, you will be responsible for driving the organization's overall platform and infrastructure strategy. To achieve this, you will need to have a deep understanding of platform engineering and how to drive a strategic roadmap of foundational capabilities and, most importantly, its adoption by the other development teams.
What you’ll do
- Guide the technical vision and strategy for the best-in-class highly scalable, available, and secure platform and infrastructure.
- Create a broad catalog of services based on capabilities and platforms that can be leveraged by other engineering teams at Checkr.
- Develop and drive platform architecture practices that encourage common solution elements, patterns, and reuse.
- Build a cross-collaborative culture between the platform and other engineering teams.
- Operationalize and manage delivery across the platform engineering team, scaling processes and systems.
- Foster an action-bias culture for product innovation and delivery, high performance, transparency, and continuous improvement.
- Work across the engineering team to shape software development to meet Checkr's objectives and key results.
- Build a diverse, equitable, inclusive culture that helps all members feel like they belong
- Partner with product leadership to influence business strategy, especially in your area of ownership
- Bring customer centricity to your entire engineering team
- Hire, retain, and scale a world-class engineering team team
What you bring
- Demonstrated success in building and leading vision, strategy, and execution of platform engineering initiatives
- Experience with driving successful platform adoption programs, with the ability to demonstrate the business impact of such initiatives
- Data-driven mindset: you know that everything built must be measured to understand its impact on the business and drive your teams to build with that in mind
- Customer centricity: you understand that customer behavior and sentiment must be well understood to effectively build products for them; this can be understood both through data as well as qualitative discussions with customers
- Experience defining and scaling modern products (API, self-service, UX first products)
- Highly effective communicator with good people instincts - able to build trust and work well with a diverse group both internally and externally
- Willingness to lead in a hands-on, high-performance environment
- Organized, self-motivated and detail-oriented
- High degree of humility and accountability
- Experience leading, growing, and retaining high-performance engineering leadership at the Director+ level
What you’ll get
- A fast-paced and collaborative environment
- Learning and development allowance
- Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
- Flexible PTO policy
- Monthly wellness stipend
