Director of Platform Engineering
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 253000 - 298000
Posted on:
8 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Checkr
Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Established in 2014 Checkrs innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities. Checkr has over 100000 customers including DoorDash Coinbase Lyft Instacart and Airtable.
Were a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes CloudList and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.
About the role
As the Director of Platform Engineering at Checkr you will be responsible for driving the organizations overall platform and infrastructure strategy. To achieve this you will need to have a deep understanding of platform engineering and how to drive a strategic roadmap of foundational capabilities and most importantly its adoption by the other development teams.
What youll do
- Guide the technical vision and strategy for the best-in-class highly scalable available and secure platform and infrastructure.
- Create a broad catalog of services based on capabilities and platforms that can be leveraged by other engineering teams at Checkr.
- Develop and drive platform architecture practices that encourage common solution elements patterns and reuse.
- Build a cross-collaborative culture between the platform and other engineering teams.
- Operationalize and manage delivery across the platform engineering team scaling processes and systems.
- Foster an action-bias culture for product innovation and delivery high performance transparency and continuous improvement.
- Work across the engineering team to shape software development to meet Checkrs objectives and key results.
- Build a diverse equitable inclusive culture that helps all members feel like they belong
- Partner with product leadership to influence business strategy especially in your area of ownership
- Bring customer centricity to your entire engineering team
- Hire retain and scale a world-class engineering team team
What you bring
- Demonstrated success as a Director level in leading scaling and retaining a high-performing engineering org of 40 or more engineers
- 7-10 years of leadership experience leading platform engineering initiatives
- 15 years of software engineering experience
- Experience with driving successful platform adoption programs with the ability to demonstrate the business impact of such initiatives
- Data-driven mindset: you know that everything built must be measured to understand its impact on the business and drive your teams to build with that in mind
- Customer centricity: you understand that customer behavior and sentiment must be well understood to effectively build products for them; this can be understood both through data as well as qualitative discussions with customers
- Experience defining and scaling modern products (API self-service UX first products)
- Highly effective communicator with good people instincts - able to build trust and work well with a diverse group both internally and externally
- Willingness to lead in a hands-on high-performance environment
- Organized self-motivated and detail-oriented
- High degree of humility and accountability
- An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: you raise the bar move with urgency stay resilient through ambiguity and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes
What youll get
- A fast-paced and collaborative environment
- Learning and development allowance
- Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
- 100% medical dental and vision coverage
- Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility adoption and parental planning services
- Flexible PTO policy
- Monthly wellness stipend
Pay Transparency Disclosure
One of Checkrs core values is Transparency. To live by that value weve made the decision to disclose salary ranges in all of our job postings. We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion. For more information on our compensation philosophy see our website.
On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (San Francisco CA)
$299000 - $352000 USD
On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (Denver CO)
$253000 - $298000 USD
At Checkr we believe a hybrid work environment strengthens collaboration drives innovation and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver CO San Francisco CA Nashville TN and Santiago Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 3 days a -office perks are provided such as lunch five times a week a commuter stipend and an abundance of snacks and beverages. A relocation stipend may be available for those willing to relocate to a Checkr hub location.
Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr
Checkr is committed to building the best product and company which requires hiring talented and qualified individuals with a diverse set of perspectives and lived experiences. Checkr believes in hiring people of all backgrounds including those whose histories are impacted by the justice system in accordance with local state and/or federal laws including the San Franciscos Fair Chance Ordinance.
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Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Go
- Lean
- Management Experience
- React
- Node.js
- Operations Management
- Project Management
- Research & Development
- Software Development
- Team Management
- GraphQL
- Leadership Experience
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