As the Director of Platform Engineering at Checkr, you will be responsible for driving the organization's overall platform and infrastructure strategy. You will need a deep understanding of platform engineering to drive a strategic roadmap of foundational capabilities and its adoption by other development teams.

What You'll Do

Guide the technical vision and strategy for a best-in-class highly scalable, available, and secure platform and infrastructure.
Create a broad catalog of services based on capabilities and platforms that can be leveraged by other engineering teams at Checkr.
Develop and drive platform architecture practices that encourage common solution elements, patterns, and reuse.
Build a cross-collaborative culture between the platform and other engineering teams.
Operationalize and manage delivery across the platform engineering team, scaling processes and systems.
Foster an action-bias culture for product innovation and delivery, high performance, transparency, and continuous improvement.
Work across the engineering team to shape software development to meet Checkr's objectives and key results.
Build a diverse, equitable, inclusive culture that helps all members feel like they belong.
Partner with product leadership to influence business strategy, especially in your area of ownership.
Bring customer centricity to your entire engineering team.
Hire, retain, and scale a world-class engineering team.

What We're Looking For

Demonstrated success in building and leading vision, strategy, and execution of platform engineering initiatives.
Experience with driving successful platform adoption programs, with the ability to demonstrate the business impact of such initiatives.
Data-driven mindset: you know that everything built must be measured to understand its impact on the business.
Customer centricity: you understand that customer behavior and sentiment must be well understood to effectively build products.
Experience defining and scaling modern products (API, self-service, UX first products).
Highly effective communicator with good people instincts - able to build trust and work well with a diverse group.
Willingness to lead in a hands-on, high-performance environment.
Organized, self-motivated and detail-oriented.
High degree of humility and accountability.
Experience leading, growing, and retaining high-performance engineering leadership at the Director+ level.

Benefits & Compensation

A fast-paced and collaborative environment.
Learning and development allowance.
Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement.
100% medical, dental, and vision coverage.
Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services.
Flexible PTO policy.
Monthly wellness stipend.
Compensation: San Francisco, CA: $299,000 - $352,000 USD; Denver, CO: $253,000 - $298,000 USD

Work Mode

This is a hybrid role open to candidates in Denver, CO; San Francisco, CA; Nashville, TN; and Santiago, Chile.

Checkr is committed to building the best product and company, which requires hiring talented and qualified individuals with a diverse set of perspectives and lived experiences. Checkr believes in hiring people of all backgrounds, including those whose histories are impacted by the justice system.