Senior Director, Platform Engineering

<div class="content-intro"><p>Altana is the network for trusted trade. Our AI-powered product network empowers governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing.</p></div><h1> <strong>The Opportunity at Altana</strong></h1> <p>As the Senior Director of Platform Engineering, you will own the foundation that the entire Altana engineering organization builds on: the cloud infrastructure that runs our products and the developer experience that determines how fast and how safely we ship. You will lead a multidisciplinary organization spanning Cloud Engineering, Developer Experience, Site Reliability, and DevSecOps / Release Engineering — with end-to-end ownership of our build, test, and release pipelines.</p> <p>This is a moment of real transformation in how software is built. We are reorganizing our engineering practice around an AI-first, agent-first model, where AI coding harnesses and autonomous agents are first-class participants in the software development lifecycle. We are looking for a leader who has done this work before — someone who has built and scaled developer experience and platform organizations, and who has direct, hands-on experience and strong, well-formed opinions about agentic coding, AI-assisted development, and what it takes to make an engineering org dramatically more productive.</p> <p>You will set the technical strategy, build and develop the team, and personally raise the bar on engineering excellence. You will be measured by the reliability and cost-efficiency of our platforms, the velocity and happiness of every engineer who depends on them, and how effectively Altana adopts AI across the development lifecycle.</p> <h2><strong>Key areas under your stewardship</strong></h2> <p><strong>Cloud Engineering: </strong>You will design, manage, and secure the multi-cloud infrastructure that powers our products — architectures that are scalable, flexible, resilient, and cost-performant across both commercial and government-compliant deployments. This includes the data platforms that support large-scale data processing, analytics, and machine learning, enabling our teams to work with world-scale datasets and build data-driven solutions.</p> <p><strong>Developer Experience:</strong> You will own the infrastructure and tooling the engineering organization relies on every day — our monorepo, CI/CD platform, build systems, local development environments, and internal tooling — and the end-to-end experience of working in our codebase from clone to production. This is the center of gravity for the role: driving Developer Acceleration across the board and making AI-first, agent-first development the default way Altana engineers work.</p> <p><strong>Site Reliability:</strong> You will ensure our