Director, Engineering - Platform and Infrastructure

Why Glassdoor?

Our mission is to help people everywhere find a job and company they love. In the process, we’re transforming the workplace experience through the power of transparency and further cementing ourselves as the worldwide leader in employer branding and insights. By choosing a career at Glassdoor, you’ll be directly contributing toward our vision for a world where transparency empowers the workforce and motivates companies to become better employers.

Please note: This role may be open to remote hiring. Our office locations are in San Francisco, CA; Chicago, IL; London, UK; and Dublin, Ireland.

Our mission is to help people everywhere find a job and company they love! We’re transforming an entire industry through the power of transparency. Our vision is for a world where radical transparency holds companies accountable to strive to become better employers. We are looking for a hands-on experienced technical leader to head our platform and infrastructure teams. The role will lead platform, infrastructure, and site reliability teams while laying the foundation for Glassdoor engineering excellence.

Our Platform engineering teams work horizontally to solve for network, security, reliability, deployment efficiency, and support AWS cloud and infrastructure management. These teams build the backbone of Glassdoor engineering, ensuring we all operate as a high-functioning team of engineers. We are starting to invest heavily in Kubernetes and containerization technologies. As Director, Platform & Infrastructure, you will set the vision and plan roadmaps for your teams, as well as help us adopt new technologies to build a best-in-class platform and infrastructure powering our site and engineering systems.

What You’ll Do:

• Set the vision and define the long-term strategy to build a high-performance platform and efficient deployment infrastructure to power all Glassdoor products
• Ensure scalability, availability and performance of large scale systems to deliver on key business metrics
• Provide technical leadership to your team by giving guidance on system design and technical standards
• Define standards and best practices for managing our infrastructure
• Lead and grow teams of platform and infrastructure engineers, who will solve core engineering problems impacting all engineering teams at Glassdoor
• Drive improved Developer Experience across all Glassdoor Engineering teams
• Partner with cross-functional teams to define security and privacy vision
• Hire, mentor, and grow your leaders in service of highly functional and effective teams
• Guide the leadership team on setting company-wide goals that inform and support our strategy

What You’ll Bring:

• A commitment to add to our culture of DEI
• 10+ years of engineering experience in platform and infrastructure space with 5+ years of experience in managing multiple engineering teams
• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS cloud management and managing large web-scale, high volume sites is required
• Deep understanding of modern software development practices including high availability, CI/CD pipelines, AWS cloud infrastructure, containerization, CDN’s, etc
• Experience leading or working in a devops environment where engineers go on-call
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, building strategy while executing tactics, including hands-on contributions
• Proven track record of collaboration with a variety of decision-makers to drive impact

Compensation and Benefits

Base Salary Range*: $230,400.00 - $345,600**.00****++**

*Glassdoor base salaries are targeted to the market 75th percentile for technical roles and the 65th percentile for non-technical roles. In other words, 65-75% of comparable organizations in our industry will pay less.

Annual Bonus Target**: 20%

**Bonuses are paid in 6-month intervals, aligning with bi-annual performance reviews

Generous Restricted Stock Units (RSU):

***Restricted Stock Units (RSU) are awarded at hire and may be refreshed annually. Additionally, as a pay-for-performance company, RSU grant awards are presented bi-annually to exceptional performers.

You can learn more about our compensation philosophy here and see salary ranges for all Glassdoor jobs here.

Health and Wellness: 100% employer-paid premiums for employee medical, dental, vision, life, short and long-term disability, select well-being programs, along with 80% employer-paid premiums for all dependents.* Generous paid time off programs for birthing and non-birthing parents are provided, along with paid injury/illness leave and paid family emergency leave.

*Coverage begins at the start of employment. After 48 months of continuous employment, 100% of all premiums for you and your dependents can be employer-paid!

Our Company Values and Commitments

• Transparency: We are open and honest. We share information – the good and the bad – so we can continuously learn, collaborate and make the right decisions. Pay bands, our compensation philosophy, and employee feedback polls are shared publicly.
• Innovation: We actively pursue new and different ways to further Glassdoor’s mission. We forge our own path by challenging the status quo. The ultimate goal is not just to change how we operate at Glassdoor, but for every employer to follow our lead!
• Good People: We work together with integrity, respect and compassion for one another. We have fun together! We are inclusive, fair and humble while remaining confident. We do the right thing, period.
• Grit: We are resilient, inventive and fearless. We see challenges as opportunities. With passion and courage, we come together to get the job done.
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: We are dedicated to building a company that is more diverse and representative of society at large. Glassdoor externally publishes our Diversity & Inclusion report and information about our employee population to hold ourselves accountable to our dedication. We also provide programs and resources to build a greater sense of belonging for our employees.

Glassdoor is committed to equal treatment and opportunity in all aspects of recruitment, selection, and employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. Glassdoor is an equal opportunity employer; committed to creating a community of inclusion, and an environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.