Director of Platform Engineering - Remote

Overview

The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our time—but it’s also the greatest opportunity for innovation, and a challenge we’re proud to take on. At Overstory, we’re harnessing cutting-edge technology to enable a resilient electrical grid that keeps communities thriving as our world changes.

In Short

• Own the platform strategy across Platform, MLOps, and SRE, aligning it with company and product goals.
• Grow senior ICs (and eventually manages) across multiple teams, fostering strong technical leadership and healthy team cultures.
• Define and evolve our platform vision, including developer experience, internal tooling, CI/CD, infrastructure, observability, and reliability standards.
• Oversee MLOps systems that support model development, training, deployment, monitoring, and governance in production.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, ML, Data, Security, and Compliance to ensure the platform meets current and future needs.
• Balance speed and stability, making thoughtful tradeoffs between innovation, cost, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Set metrics and accountability for platform performance, reliability, and developer productivity.

Requirements

• 10+ years experience leading platform, infrastructure, or reliability teams in a scaling startup environment.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native infrastructure (GCP strongly preferred), Kubernetes, CI/CD, and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience supporting machine learning systems in production, including model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• A track record of building reliable, scalable systems used by fast-moving product teams.
• Excellent people leadership skills — you know how to coach managers, grow talent, and build inclusive, high-performing teams.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence across org boundaries.
• Experience in data- or ML-heavy products.

Benefits

• To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis.
• Flexible working environment with a lot of autonomy.
• Other benefits like a remote working budget, an educational budget and time to develop new skills.
• To be surrounded by an excellent, vibrant, smart team who have each other’s back.
• Equity and a competitive salary.