Sysco · 2 months ago
Senior Platform Owner - Platform Engineering
Sysco Corporate
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expSysco is the global leader in foodservice distribution. The Senior Platform Owner will lead the platform engineering product, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable products while engaging with customers and managing a portfolio of products and features.
Electrical DistributionFood and BeverageFood DeliveryHealth CareHospitalityLogisticsMarketingMeat and PoultryRestaurantsSales
No H1B
Responsibilities
As Senior Platform Owner, you will lead the platform engineering "product," directly influencing thousands of developers and services:
Collaborate with engineering leaders to establish, promote, and refine the long-term vision for the PaaStry+ ecosystem. Develop the "paved road" for 500+ microservices and beyond across AWS and GCP
Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle for mission-critical gateways. Set the strategy, roadmap, and self-service features for our API Gateway, which controls production APIs, and our new LLM Gateway, which provides secure access to large language models
Drive our AI-powered platform initiative. Actively investigate and embed advanced, agentic AI capabilities (such as AI-driven troubleshooting, pipeline optimization, and proactive developer agents) to deliver a next-generation, assistive platform
Maintain a unified, prioritized, and actionable backlog for the entire platform, including the core Internal Developer Platform (IDP), network gateways, processes for initializing services (service bootstrapping), and frameworks for automating software testing (test automation frameworks)
Design and deliver a robust developer adoption strategy for the platform
Establish ongoing feedback mechanisms (surveys, interviews) to track satisfaction (NPS) and ensure your roadmap addresses key developer pain points
Define and focus on the metrics that matter. You will own the platform's value stream, tracking DORA metrics (Lead Time, Deployment Frequency, etc.) across thousands of monthly deployments to demonstrate the platform's ROI
Be the public representative and principal evangelist for PaaStry+. Present at internal tech talks, craft persuasive updates for stakeholders, and foster a dynamic internal community
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in CS or equivalent degree or 5 years related work experience in a technical field
8+ years experience as a Platform Owner, Developer or similar technical roles with 5+ years of experience in an agile environment Strong understanding of Scrum, Lean, XP, Kanban and other agile development frameworks
Proven experience managing design and delivery of highly technical and complex large-scale platforms
Sound knowledge of emerging technologies focusing on cloud products, SaaS platforms, or Enterprise Applications
Strong platform engineering skills with deep understanding of platform vision and priorities
Demonstrated leadership and people management skills and ability to make decisions and set clear priorities
Proven ability to recognize value and manage investments to maximize value delivered
Strong stakeholder management and negotiation skills
Company
Sysco
Sysco sells, markets, and distributes food products to restaurants, hotels, and other hospitality businesses.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$4.25BKey Investors
Bank of America
2025-09-05Post Ipo Debt· $3B
2025-02-25Post Ipo Debt· $1.25B
1978-01-13IPO
Leadership Team
Kevin Hourican
President and CEO
Peter Jackson
Chief Executive Officer Sysco Europe
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