Director, Platform Engineering

Doma Technologies

$185K — $227K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineering with hands-on expertise in Azure, Kubernetes, Postgres, and data warehousing.
  • 3+ years of management experience for engineers or engineering managers.
  • Deep understanding of CI/CD, GitOps, and infrastructure as code principles.
  • Proven ability to direct AI tools for infrastructure tasks while ensuring production readiness and security.
  • Experience with secrets management and related DevOps tools.
  • Comfort operating large-scale databases and data warehouse infrastructures.
  • Track record of being hands-on in coding, architecture review, and incident resolution.

Responsibilities

  • Own and maintain reliable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure on Azure and Kubernetes.
  • Lead the engineering team in adopting AI-assisted tools for infrastructure design and operation.
  • Drive the implementation of infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and GitOps strategies to enhance deployment efficiency.
  • Manage secrets and the DevOps tooling integral to the deployment pipeline.
  • Maintain and evolve the organization’s database and data warehouse infrastructure.
  • Establish observability and reliability practices to improve overall developer experience.
  • Mentor and manage a team of engineers while actively contributing to projects.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits starting next month after employment begins.
  • 12 weeks of paid family bonding leave for maternity and paternity.
  • 401(k) with company match program.
  • Short-Term and Long-Term Disability coverage.
  • Health Savings Account (HSA) for healthcare expenses.
  • Supplemental life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance.
  • Critical illness, injury, and hospital insurance options.
Full Job Description
Doma is looking for a hands-on Director of Platform Engineering to own the infrastructure and DevOps foundation our product, software, and data teams build on. At Doma, we build differently. The platform supporting our environment was designed and stood up through human-directed AI. This role owns and extends that estate, so fluency in directing AI tools to produce production-grade, secure infrastructure is essential. You will report to our VP Engineering and will be expected to both set direction and stay close enough to the systems yourself to review architecture, work through incidents, and do part of the build alongside your team. This is a backfill at the Director level, with a scope intentionally focused on infrastructure and DevOps.

You're fired up to:
  • Own our cloud infrastructure (Azure) and Kubernetes environment, keeping it reliable, secure, and cost efficient
  • Lead the team in using AI-assisted engineering to design, build, and operate platform infrastructure - setting the standards, guardrails, and review practices that make AI-generated code and infrastructure reliable, secure, and maintainable at scale
  • Drive infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and GitOps practices that let engineering teams ship safely and quickly
  • Own secrets management and the DevOps tooling that underpins our deployment pipeline
  • Maintain and evolve our database and data warehouse infrastructure
  • Build observability and reliability practices, and improve developer experience across engineering
  • Manage and mentor a team of engineers and engineering managers, while staying hands-on enough to contribute directly to the work
  • Partner with Security and Corporate IT on any handoffs between platform and security

You definitely have:
  • 7+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineering, including hands-on experience on Azure, Kubernetes, Postgres and data warehousing
  • 3+ years managing engineers or engineering managers
  • Deep experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and infrastructure as code
  • Demonstrated proficiency directing AI coding and infrastructure tools to deliver production systems. You can architect the outcome, prompt and steer the AI effectively, and critically review what it produces - you treat AI as a force multiplier while remaining fully accountable for the quality, security, and correctness of the result.
  • Experience owning secrets management and related tooling
  • Comfort operating databases and data warehouse infrastructure at scale
  • A track record of staying hands-on: writing code, reviewing architecture, and working incidents alongside your team, not just directing from above
  • Strong communication skills, comfortable explaining technical tradeoffs and risk to non-technical stakeholders

You might even have:
  • Experience standing up or scaling a platform engineering function inside a lean, growing company
  • Familiarity with Snowflake or other modern data warehouse platforms
  • Experience with observability tooling such as Datadog or Grafana
  • Background in a regulated or compliance-heavy industry, with SOC 2 exposure
  • Experience partnering with a separate Security or IT function rather than owning it directly

#LI-Remote

Shown below is the lowest to highest base salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee's pay position within the base salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs. At Doma, compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.

This job is also eligible for the following compensation components: Bonus & Equity

The base salary range for this role is shown below:

$185,940-$227,260 USD

How we'll value you and make your life a bit easier:

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits to eligible employees (FTE, non-contract): medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), generous vacation time, and paid bonding leave.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.

We currently offer the following benefits to all Full-Time employees:
  • Work/Life Balance - We encourage taking Paid Time Off (PTO)!
  • 12 Weeks of Paid Family Bonding Leave (Maternity and Paternity)
  • Incredible medical, dental, and vision benefits options to allow you to customize to you and your family's needs that all start in the following month following your first day of employment
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • 401K with company match program
  • Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
  • Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance
  • Critical Illness, Injury and Hospital Insurance

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