About the role
You'll lead Gamma's Platform organisation as we scale to serve hundreds of millions of users. This means overseeing the critical systems that power everything: infrastructure, security, identity, and the foundational platforms that enable product teams to move fast while maintaining world-class reliability and performance.
You'll manage a team of 15–20 engineers across multiple domains, balancing technical vision with people leadership.
What you'll do
- Lead and mentor a team of 15–20 platform engineers across infrastructure, identity, security, and app platform domains
- Guide senior and staff engineers in making strategic technical decisions about architecture, scalability, security, and reliability
- Own the technical roadmap for platform systems including AWS infrastructure, identity and authentication, security tooling, and developer platform capabilities
- Establish operational excellence practices including incident response, on-call rotations, SLAs, and system observability
- Champion security-first thinking and compliance requirements (SOC 2, GDPR) across the engineering organisation
- Drive platform engineering hiring and onboarding, collaborating with recruiting and leadership to build world-class teams
What you'll bring
- 8+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, backend systems, or security, with deep proficiency in AWS, distributed systems, and authentication systems
- 4+ years managing and developing engineering teams at high-growth SaaS companies, with experience leading across multiple technical domains or managing managers
- Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, identity and authentication systems, security engineering, and observability, with strong knowledge of compliance frameworks like SOC 2 and ISO 27001
- Demonstrated track record delivering complex infrastructure migrations, security initiatives, and platform improvements while maintaining reliability
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex infrastructure and security concepts for product teams and leadership
Compensation range
The base salary for this full-time position, which spans multiple internal levels depending on qualifications, ranges between $250K – $350K plus benefits & equity.
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