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Our platform connects metadata, data lineage, data quality, and business context into a single knowledge graph, enabling enterprises to turn raw data into reliable decisions. We operate globally, move fast, and build for the long term.\nSoftware engineering is being redefined. The engineers who will shape the next decade of product development are not the ones who write the most code - they are the ones who know how to think clearly, ship confidently, and use every tool available to them, including AI, to multiply their impact.\nThe Actian Data Intelligence Platform helps teams find, understand, and use AI-ready data under clear governance. It connects metadata, data lineage, data quality, and business context into a single knowledge graph, so enterprises can turn raw data into reliable decisions - the trusted foundation that AI agents increasingly depend on to work. We operate globally, move fast, and build for the long term.\nThe Data Intelligence Platform has to deploy, operate, and pass audits in every one of the environments our customers run - public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises. We are standing up a dedicated platform team to make that possible, and we are hiring the leader who will build it.\nThis is a hands-on director role. You will stand up and lead a newly formed platform team, hire and grow it, and build alongside it from day one: you will design the platform services, write infrastructure code, and set the engineering standards the rest of engineering relies on.\nWe are an AI-first engineering organization, and in this role AI is how the work gets done. AI agents run operational tasks, AI accelerates the team's own engineering, and AI replaces tools we pay for today but no longer need. You will also build the infrastructure that runs the AI and ML workloads inside our product.\nWhat You Will Own:\nPlatform services for the Data Intelligence Platform, including the infrastructure behind the data catalog, the knowledge graph, and the APIs that power customer integrations.\n\nCloud-agnostic deployment of the Platform across AWS, a second public cloud (Azure or Google Cloud), and customer on-premises and private-cloud environments - including packaging, installation, upgrades, and supportability.\n\nThe internal developer platform and CI/CD, including GitOps delivery, so engineering teams ship safely and quickly.\n\nSecurity operations and compliance evidence for SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and GDPR - including EU data residency - in partnership with the security team.\n\nCloud cost management and FinOps, with clear cost visibility and accountability across every environment.\n\nInfrastructure for the AI and ML workloads used by the Platform.\n\nObservability, reliability, and incident response for the services the team runs, including the team's on-call rotation.\n\nBuilding and growing the team - hiring platform engineers, setting the operating model, and establishing the standards and rituals the team works by.\n\nWhat You Will Deliver in Your First 12 Months:\nHigh-functioning platform team: an operating model in place, and clear ownership boundaries with the product engineering teams you serve.\n\nPortable, cloud-agnostic deployments: one deployment model that runs the Platform on AWS, on at least one other cloud, and on customer infrastructure - defined as code and delivered through GitOps.\n\nAI agents running operations: agents that handle routine operational work - triage, remediation, change validation, and reporting - with measurable reductions in manual effort and a smaller tool footprint.\n\nPlatform foundations for the data catalog, the knowledge graph, and integration APIs: scalable, observable infrastructure that product teams build on.\n\nCompliance automation and audit readiness: evidence for SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and GDPR collected automatically from the platform rather than assembled by hand before each audit.\n\nWe expect this leader to treat AI as part of the platform. That means you will:\nDesign and run AI agents that operate infrastructure under clear guardrails - human approval for high-risk changes, and full audit trails.\n\nReview our current tooling and retire tools that AI agents or simpler automation can replace, with a cost and risk case for each change.\n\nUse AI coding and operations assistants in your own daily work, and set the standard for how the team uses them.\n\nBuild the compute, data, and access patterns that let AI and ML workloads run reliably in every environment we support.\n\nWhat You Bring:\n10+ years in platform engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE, including 3+ years managing engineers - with experience building or scaling a team, not only running an established one.\n\nAI-first mindset, making extensive use of this technology for accelerating developments.\n\nA track record of shipping on-premises or self-hosted software that customers install and run in their own environments.\n\nDeep, hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production, infrastructure as code (Terraform/Terragrunt), and GitOps delivery with Argo CD or similar tooling.\n\nStrong AWS experience, and the judgment to design for portability rather than lock-in to a single cloud.\n\nHands-on experience operating systems under SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR controls, including data-residency requirements.\n\nExperience managing cloud costs and making cost trade-offs explicit to engineering and business leaders.\n\nClear written communication, suited to a fully remote team across US and EU time zones.\n\nNice to Have:\nExperience running infrastructure for data platforms, data catalogs, or graph databases.\n\nProduction experience on Azure or Google Cloud in addition to AWS.\n\nExperience with air-gapped or restricted-network customer deployments.\n\nExperience building infrastructure for AI and ML workloads, including model serving and vector or graph data stores.\n\nObservability with OpenTelemetry or comparable tooling, from instrumentation through alerting.\n\nPrivileged access management with StrongDM or a comparable tool.\n\nWhat We Value:\nWe value autonomy over process, outcomes over activity, and builders over theorists. This role suits someone who thrives when handed a hard problem, a team to build, and the space to figure it out - and who uses every tool available, including AI, to multiply the team's impact.\nHow You Will Work:\nYou will report to the SVP of Engineering and work closely with product engineering, security, customer success, and support. The role is fully remote from the US, UK, Spain, France or Germany, with at least four hours a day of overlap with both US Eastern Time and Central European Time. 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