• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years managing engineers, ideally including managers or multiple teams.
• Significant experience building product-facing platforms or foundational application services, with enough technical depth to review designs, challenge tradeoffs, and earn the respect of Staff-level engineers.
• A track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers, and of raising the bar through coaching and performance management.
• Strong product instincts and a history of shipping platform capabilities that unlocked meaningful customer outcomes.
• Experience setting technical strategy and roadmap across multiple teams, and driving alignment with product, design, and executive stakeholders.
• Fluency with modern cloud platforms (AWS preferred), Kubernetes, and distributed systems.
• Excellent judgment on what to build into the platform, what to leave to product teams, and what to buy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Experience leading teams that build platforms for AI-native products, including agent frameworks, model orchestration, or LLM-powered application surfaces
• Experience with platforms supporting both multi-tenant SaaS and single-tenant enterprise deployments
• Experience as a founding or early platform leader at a vertical SaaS or enterprise AI company