Remote Position
[Remote] Managing Director, Head of Software & Platform Engineering
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Madison-Davis, LLC lists an executive role for a technology-driven enterprise software organization. The leader will oversee software and platform engineering, guide architecture and delivery, strengthen developer platforms and reliability, and scale a product-oriented engineering culture.
Responsibilities
- Oversee teams responsible for application development, software architecture, production releases, and ongoing engineering delivery
- Lead platform engineering, SRE, cloud infrastructure, and observability functions
- Establish architectural standards across distributed applications, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infrastructure
- Develop internal developer platforms and engineering automation to improve productivity and deployment efficiency
- Drive improvements in CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, release quality, and production reliability
- Participate in important technical decisions and production code reviews, particularly within Python environments
- Hire, coach, and scale engineering managers and senior technical leaders
- Collaborate with executive and product stakeholders to align technical priorities with software delivery objectives
Skills
- Senior software engineering leadership experience with direct accountability for production application development
- Demonstrated platform engineering ownership with strong Kubernetes and cloud-native experience
- Proven success managing sizable engineering organizations
- Strong Python development background and current code-level technical credibility
- Deep understanding of distributed-system architecture and production software design
- Practical SRE, observability, and reliability engineering experience
- Strong Infrastructure-as-Code, engineering automation, and CI/CD knowledge
- Experience improving engineering processes, software release quality, and developer productivity
- Strong technical leadership, organizational development, and executive communication skills
- Experience adopting AI-assisted software development or agentic engineering tools
- OpenStack, VMware, or hybrid/private-cloud modernization
- Exposure to Go, Rust, Java, or Node.js
- Experience with policy-as-code and developer-experience programs
- Background scaling engineering teams through significant organizational growth
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