Director of Engineering, Platform Engineering

Company: Menlo Ventures
Location: Oakland
Posted on: April 6, 2025

Job Description:

In your role as 'Director of Engineering, Platform Engineering' you will guide the scalable, reliable and secure building of Everlaw's platform. You will work closely with our Product, Design, DevOps, Security Engineering and Product engineering leads to synthesize requirements and prioritize efforts. You will lead roadmapping, resourcing and execution for critical platform areas that make it better and cheaper to develop, test and release software. You will work closely with our Engineering Operations team to improve processes to help with goal setting, empowerment and execution across Everlaw Engineering efforts.Engineering is the backbone of the Everlaw Platform. We build features and functionality into the product and ensure its smooth functioning. We also provide data and insights to the rest of Everlaw. At our core, we like to build and enjoy the creative process of building software that is smart, that works well, that scales well, and that is reliable and secure. We do this by supporting and empowering our team members to do their best work, by tackling challenging and complex engineering problems and by nurturing and supporting each team member through mentoring, coaching, and comprehensive feedback.This is a full-time position based in our Oakland, California office with a hybrid work schedule: in office M/W/Th with the option to work from home Tu/Fr.In your role, you'll...

• Critically observe and understand Everlaw's platform, tooling and processes.
• Understand current and upcoming challenges and requirements from the viewpoint of multiple stakeholders.
• Understand company goals and Engineering roadmaps.
• Strategize, prioritize, resource and execute against our Engineering roadmap.
• Actively coach your reports (both senior engineers and managers) to deliver on projects and ensure they get the right types of feedback and coaching they need to succeed in their careers.
• Work with Engineering Operations, cross-functional teams, team members and managers to improve various processes that affect infrastructure growth, support, alignment, collaboration and accountability.About you
  • You have a BS/MS or PhD in Computer Science (or equivalent).
  • You have a sound foundational understanding of a wide range of computer science topics and concerns relating to system and software design.
  • You have at least 5 years of experience as a senior engineer building one or more of - developer productivity tools, highly available platform services (i.e. storage systems, pub-sub systems, search systems, caching solutions, observability solutions) and/or have expertise and experience with infrastructure and/or cloud technologies (like Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker etc).
  • You have a good dynamic range that you apply to different situations - you can step back and empower, while also diving deep into the code to understand the details.
  • You can communicate at the right altitude with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • You have experience working with stakeholder teams (internal and/or external) in setting and collaborating on technical roadmaps.
  • You have experience communicating with customers articulating to them how the platform works on reliability, security and compliance matters.
  • You have at least 3 years of experience managing and leading senior engineers. You have experience managing the technical workstreams of software engineers and supporting them in execution.
  • You have at least 1 year of experience managing and leading managers - coaching and mentoring them on talent management, strategic planning and execution. You have experience managing platform engineering teams.
  • You have demonstrated the ability to lead an inspired, high performing and highly motivated and accountable team.
  • You are authorized to work in the United States. Please note that at this time, Everlaw is not sponsoring F-1 visas, including OPT, for this role.Benefits
    • The expected salary range for this role is between $245,000.00 - $310,000.00. The final offered salary will be dependent upon many factors including the candidate's experience and skills.
    • Equity program
    • 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
    • Health, dental, and vision
    • Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expenses
    • Paid parental leave and approximately 10 days (80 hours) per year of sick leave
    • Seventeen paid vacation days plus 11 federal holidays
    • Annual allocation for Learning & Development opportunities and applicable professional membership dues
    • Company-sponsored life and disability insurancePerks
      • Work in Downtown Oakland, just steps from the BART line and dozens of restaurants
      • You will get a powerful Linux laptop and be able to customize your desk setup
      • Bond over team lunches and out-of-the-box events
      • Time off for company-sponsored volunteer events and 4 paid hours per quarter to volunteer at a charitable organization of your choice
      • Take advantage of learning and career development opportunities
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