Join Overstory's mission to tackle the climate crisis by empowering our engineering teams. We are looking for a Director of Platform Engineering to own and evolve our core engineering foundations. This role will lead our SRE, MLOps, and Platform teams, with a mandate to create leverage across the entire organization. Partnering closely with product, data, and application engineering teams, you will set the technical vision, define best practices, and ensure our infrastructure enables teams to move fast with confidence.

What You'll Do

Own the platform strategy across Platform, MLOps, and SRE, aligning it with company and product goals
Grow senior ICs and managers 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

What We're Looking For

10+ years experience leading platform, infrastructure, or reliability teams in a scaling startup environment, including navigating ambiguity, rapid growth, and the transition from early-stage systems to more mature, repeatable platforms
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

Nice to Have

Experience with geospatial data, image processing or mapping technology

Technical Stack

GCP
Kubernetes

Team & Environment

You will lead SRE, MLOps, and Platform teams within a 100-person company.

Benefits & Compensation

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
Remote working budget
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

Work Mode

This is a global remote role. Candidates can be located in the United States, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Estonia, Portugal, France, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, or Canada.

Overstory is an equal opportunity employer.