Zeitview · 8 hours ago
Senior Director of Engineering, Platform Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
10+ years expZeitview is the leading intelligent aerial imaging company for high-value infrastructure, providing businesses with actionable, real-time insights to recover revenue, reduce risk and improve build quality. The Senior Director of Engineering, Platform Engineering will lead and scale the global platform engineering organization, ensuring it enables product teams to move fast while maintaining high standards for scalability, performance, reliability, quality, and developer experience.
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Responsibilities
Lead, mentor, and grow global, distributed engineering teams, including tech leads, engineers and potential managers
Build a high-performance engineering culture centered on ownership, accountability, quality, and continuous improvement
Provide regular coaching, feedback, performance evaluations, and career development guidance
Drive effective hiring, onboarding, succession planning, and retention strategies
Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe environment across regions and time zones
Own the technical strategy and long-term vision for platform engineering, with a focus on: Scalability and performance, Reliability and stability, Security and compliance, Developer experience and ease of development, Platform usability and adoption
Partner closely with architects and tech leads to define platform standards, architectural patterns, and best practices
Ensure the platform serves as a strong foundation enabling rapid and safe product innovation
Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term architectural health and sustainability
Stay sufficiently hands-on to: Understand the complexity and risk of initiatives, Guide work breakdown, prioritization, and sequencing, Support technical decision-making when needed
Work closely with engineering managers, tech leads, and architects to drive execution and delivery
Own capacity planning, resource allocation, and roadmap commitments across teams
Ensure predictable delivery while maintaining high engineering quality and operational rigor
Act as a key partner to Product, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and other cross-functional leaders
Translate business objectives into platform capabilities and technical investments
Communicate platform vision, tradeoffs, progress, and risks clearly to executive stakeholders
Align platform priorities with broader company strategy and product roadmaps
Define, own, and continuously evolve OKRs for the platform engineering organization
Establish and track meaningful KPIs across delivery, reliability, quality, developer productivity, and operational health
Use data to drive decision-making, prioritize investments, and measure impact
Regularly review outcomes and adjust strategy based on insights and results
Champion an AI-first mindset across platform engineering
Drive adoption of AI-assisted development tools, automation, and intelligent workflows to improve productivity and quality
Partner with teams to responsibly integrate AI into platform capabilities and internal engineering processes
Foster a culture of experimentation, learning, and innovation around AI in engineering
Act as a visible proponent and role model for AI usage within the engineering organization
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience managing engineering teams, including managers and senior technical leaders
10+ years of hands-on experience in software development
Proven experience leading large-scale, distributed or global engineering organizations
Strong understanding of modern platform engineering concepts, including developer platforms, shared services, APIs, and infrastructure abstractions
Demonstrated ability to balance technical depth with organizational leadership and business impact
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Preferred
Prior experience as a Platform Architect or Principal/Staff Engineer
Experience building or scaling internal developer platforms
Exposure to large-scale, multi-tenant, or high-availability systems
Experience driving AI adoption within engineering teams
Benefits
Competitive salary and annual bonus
Your choice of multiple medical insurance plans, including options with an HSA and 100% coverage of the premium for yourself and your dependents
100% paid dental and vision insurance
Unlimited PTO: We mean it when we say we prioritize work-life balance and mental health
Work-from-home environment: flexibility for employees should be the norm for companies
Autonomy and upward mobility
Diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture: a place where your voice matters
Company
Zeitview
Zeitview is an aerial data analytics platform that provides aerial drone services for energy and infrastructure sectors.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$173.96MKey Investors
Climate InvestmentValor Equity PartnersEuclidean Capital
2025-03-05Series Unknown· $60M
2023-02-07Series E· $55M
2021-10-26Series Unknown· $20M
Leadership Team
Carl Burrow
Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)
Dan Burton
Founder
Recent News
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