VP of Platform Engineering

Locatee Ag

$150K — $200K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in platform engineering in modern B2B SaaS environments
  • Experience leading engineering managers and principal engineers
  • Ability to drive cross-team collaboration and adoption of shared services
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and managing production SaaS systems
  • Expertise in CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and developer platforms
  • Experience with establishing SRE practices and operational maturity

Responsibilities

  • Own cloud modernization strategy and execution
  • Build and evolve core capabilities like CI/CD and infrastructure automation
  • Drive architectural consistency while enabling team autonomy
  • Establish and lead a Shared Services engineering team
  • Define ownership boundaries between shared services and application teams
  • Partner with engineering teams to drive shared services adoption
  • Implement reliability engineering practices such as SLOs and incident response

Benefits

  • Competitive Compensation that reflects your value
  • Comprehensive Benefits including health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Generous paid time off to support well-being
  • Flexible Work Environment options (remote, hybrid, in-office)
  • Inclusive & Collaborative Culture valuing diverse perspectives
Full Job Description
We are looking for a VP of Platform Engineering to join our dynamic and growing Engineering team!

Responsibilities

Cloud modernization & platform evolution
  • Own the strategy and execution for cloud modernization, including re-platforming legacy systems, standardizing deployment patterns, and improving scalability and resilience.
  • Build and evolve core platform capabilities such as CI/CD, infrastructure automation, environment management, and service tooling.
  • Drive architectural consistency across a growing B2B SaaS platform while enabling team autonomy.

Create and scale a Shared Services team
  • Establish and lead a Shared Services engineering team responsible for foundational platform services, with initial focus on identity, authentication, and authorization.
  • Define clear ownership boundaries between shared services and application teams, emphasizing enablement over control.
  • Partner closely with product and application engineering teams to drive adoption of shared services through strong APIs, documentation, tooling, and developer experience.
  • Treat shared services as internal products: define roadmaps, SLAs, reliability expectations, and success metrics.
  • Balance standardization with flexibility to ensure shared services accelerate-not slow-product development.

Build an SRE culture
  • Establish reliability engineering practices including SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, incident response, postmortems, and capacity planning.
  • Improve observability and operational readiness through monitoring, alerting, tracing, and runbooks.
  • Work with application teams to improve operability, resilience, and production readiness through better design patterns and automation.

Leadership & org building
  • Lead and grow teams across platform engineering, shared services, and DevOps/SRE.
  • Build a performance-oriented culture rooted in learning, coaching, and accountability.
  • Define and track platform success metrics such as reliability, developer satisfaction, delivery speed, and operational efficiency.
  • Partner with Engineering, Product, and Architecture leadership to align platform investments with business outcomes.


About You:

Leadership & experience
  • 10+ years of experience building and leading platform engineering teams in modern B2B SaaS environments.
  • Proven success leading leaders (engineering managers, staff/principal engineers).
  • Strong ability to drive cross-team adoption of shared platforms and services through influence and collaboration.

Platform & architecture depth
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and operating production SaaS systems at scale.
  • Experience building shared services or platform teams (identity, auth, platform APIs, infrastructure services).
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and internal developer platforms.

Reliability & operational excellence
  • Demonstrated experience establishing SRE practices and improving reliability outcomes.
  • Comfort owning operational maturity, on-call models, and incident management processes.

Nice to have
  • Experience modernizing identity and authentication systems (SSO, OAuth/OIDC, RBAC/ABAC).
  • Background in platform product management or internal tooling.
  • FinOps or cloud cost-optimization experience.


What We Offer

We're committed to creating an environment where you can thrive-professionally and personally. Our offerings include:
  • Competitive Compensation We recognize and reward your contributions with a salary package that reflects your value.
  • Comprehensive Benefits Including health, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, and generous paid time off to support your well-being.
  • Flexible Work Environment Whether remote, hybrid, or in-office, we support work arrangements that promote productivity and balance.
  • Inclusive & Collaborative Culture We foster a workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, teamwork is encouraged, and everyone has a voice.

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