Director of Engineering, Platform Engineering Jobs

Everlaw

Location:
United States, Oakland, California

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

241000.00 - 305000.00 USD / Year

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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.

Job Responsibility:

Inspire and empower your managers to cultivate high-performing teams, fostering a culture of continuous feedback and professional growth to ensure successful project delivery and career development
Use your technical knowledge to align stakeholders across Engineering and Product on the ideal path forward on complex technical decisions and roadmap decisions
Strategize, prioritize, resource, and execute against our Engineering roadmap
Work with Engineering Operations, cross-functional teams, team members and managers to improve various processes that affect infrastructure growth, support, alignment, collaboration, and accountability
Critically observe and understand Everlaw’s platform, tooling, and processes

Requirements:

At least 4 years of experience managing and leading senior engineers, including technical workstream management and execution support
At least 2 years of experience managing and leading managers, coaching them on talent management, strategic planning, and execution, with a focus on platform engineering teams
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 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 are authorized to work in the United States

What we offer:

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
Membership to Modern Health to help employees prioritize mental health and wellness
Annual allocation for Learning & Development opportunities and applicable professional membership dues
Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
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

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 08, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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