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Redis is seeking a Director of Platform Engineering to lead the Cloud Platform Engineering team in Vancouver. You will own the foundational cloud infrastructure layer that powers all Redis products, combining strategic leadership with hands-on technical depth.
In this role, you will:
- Lead and grow a world-class platform engineering team in Vancouver, hiring and mentoring Senior Platform Engineers while building a high-trust, high-ownership culture.
- Define the technical vision, architecture, and multi-year roadmap for Redis Cloud Platform's core infrastructure services, ensuring elegant support for current and future products.
- Guide design and delivery of production-grade control plane services, resource lifecycle APIs, multi-cloud abstractions, Kubernetes operators, tenancy patterns, observability integrations, and operational interfaces used by engineering and SRE teams.
- Establish and continuously raise engineering standards through design reviews, reliability practices (SLOs, metrics, traces, alerts, runbooks, incident response), security posture, and disciplined use of AI tools.
- Partner with Product Engineering, SRE, Security, and Cloud Infrastructure leadership to translate requirements into reliable, scalable platform capabilities.
- Own end-to-end reliability, performance, security, and operational excellence of platform services, including upgrades, failure recovery, quotas, auditability, and multi-tenant isolation.
- Champion integration of AI/LLM tools into engineering workflows (design, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, code review) and explore embedding AI capabilities into the platform.
- Build Redis' engineering presence and capabilities in Vancouver while contributing to company-wide platform strategy.
Required qualifications: 12+ years software engineering experience with 5+ years in people leadership managing platform, infrastructure, or cloud engineering teams. Proven track record building and scaling production-grade cloud platform services, control planes, or internal developer platforms in SaaS/cloud-native environments. Hands-on production experience and strong multi-cloud expertise (AWS, GCP, Azure). Strong software engineering foundation in Go, Java, or Rust with experience architecting distributed systems. Demonstrated success establishing observability, SLOs, incident management, and operational rigor. Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and deep cloud fundamentals knowledge. Strong proficiency with LLMs and AI-assisted development tools as core engineering practice. Exceptional ability to create clarity in ambiguous technical domains with outstanding communication and cross-functional leadership skills.
