{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"45643e63c7ad663f490107fe","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/45643e63c7ad663f490107fe","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/45643e63c7ad663f490107fe","title":"Engineering Leader, Platform Engineering","description":"ClassDojo's goal is to give every child on Earth an education they love.\n\nWe started by building a communication network that connects teachers, children, and families. Today, ClassDojo is used in the vast majority of U.S. schools and reaches tens of millions of children and families globally. We're now expanding beyond communication into building the best possible learning experiences for kids everywhere.\n\nWe're a small, high-talent-density team with experience from leading technology companies. We value ownership, speed, and thoughtful decision-making, and we aim to create an environment where people can do the best work of their careers.\n\nWe're hiring an Engineering Leader to own ClassDojo's Platform engineering org end-to-end for infrastructure, data, developer experience, and AI tooling.\n\nAs the Engineering Lead for Platform, you'll manage the engineering managers across these teams as well as perform the EM role for teams when needed. You’ll work with our product engineering areas as your customers, set platform engineering practices and quality, and make the build‑vs‑buy and architecture trade‑offs that shape how every engineer at ClassDojo ships.\n\nThis is a manager-of-managers role with real architectural and strategic ownership. You'll have 2 to 4 engineering managers reporting in, and your work multiplies across the entire engineering org. You will be expected to set direction, not just execute on it.\n\nWhat You'll Do\nLead a multi-team Platform org\n\nOwn Platform's company-level objectives and the engineering plan that delivers them.\n\nTranslate company priorities and product‑engineering needs into a platform roadmap, in a way that flows both up and down.\n\nBe responsible for build‑vs‑buy and architecture‑level trade‑offs across infrastructure, data, developer experience, and AI tooling; own the technical roadmap and how it balances against the needs of your customers.\n\nRepresent Platform and collaborate with cross‑functional leadership partners and in engineering‑wide leadership conversations.\n\nDevelop the engineering managers reporting to you\n\nCoach EMs to a higher bar with clear feedback, growth plans, and direct support.\n\nDrive AI‑native development in line with ClassDojo’s engineering practices (flow‑based delivery, vertical slicing, WIP discipline, Definition of Done, observability).\n\nAddress performance issues early and clearly; develop managers out of “fine” performance into great performance.\n\nBe directive when our values, quality bar, or ways of working are at stake.\n\nRun platform towards the long term\n\nTreat the product engineering areas as customers: understand their needs, measure adoption and satisfaction, and prioritize accordingly.\n\nBuild paved roads and golden paths that teams want to use; earn adoption rather than mandating it.\n\nTake accountability for SLAs/SLOs and incident response across the platform surface.\n\nMake tech‑debt and reliability trade‑offs on purpose, not by accident.\n\nDrive technical excellence across the platform\n\nSupport and drive architecture and systems design decisions across infrastructure, data, DevEx, and AI tooling; ensure systems are reliable, maintainable, and operationally ready.\n\nMake build‑vs‑buy calls deliberately; avoid both not‑invented‑here and unmanaged sprawl.\n\nPartner cross‑functionally\n\nCo‑own the platform roadmap and quality bar with the product engineering leads who depend on you.\n\nPartner with Security, Ops, Data, and other functions as the platform requires.\n\nBuild pragmatic interim solutions that work today and migrate cleanly as platform capabilities mature.\n\nYou Will Be a Match If You…\n\n2+ years managing managers, with direct reports who were themselves people managers.\n\n10+ years total in technical roles, with a strong individual‑contributor era you can still draw on.\n\nHave owned a platform, infrastructure, data, or developer‑productivity area and delivered a measurable outcome (throughput, reliability, cost, or operational safety).\n\nHave built or evolved platform engineering practices across multiple teams, not just within one, and earned adoption.\n\nHave hired, developed, and managed engineering managers.\n\nComfortable making and defending build‑vs‑buy and architecture‑level trade‑offs across the platform surface; can still reason about code with taste.\n\nEmbrace Candor > Harmony: give the hard message early, comfortable with disagreement.\n\nUse LLM‑based tools daily and push your teams to adopt them.\n\nAre an excellent written communicator; can articulate strategy and trade‑offs clearly in writing.\n\nNice to Have\n\nExperience running infrastructure, data, DevEx, or AI platforms at meaningful scale.\n\nHas built developer platforms that internal engineers genuinely adopted (paved roads, golden paths, internal developer platforms).\n\nHas used AI‑native workflows to materially change how a team designs, ships, and operates, and/or has built AI tooling/platform for other engineers (not just personal use).\n\nExperience leading a remote‑first, distributed engineering team.\n\nBrings a network of high‑quality platform/infrastructure engineering talent.\n\nWe are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We are happy to accommodate any disabilities or special needs. ClassDojo takes a number of factors into consideration when determining compensation, including geographic location, experience, and skillset. Salary ranges (United States):\n\nCA, WA, NY, NJ, CT states: $240,000 to $280,000 (USD)\n\nAll other states in the US: $204,000 to $238,000 (USD)\n\n#LI-Remote\n\n#J-18808-Ljbffr","company":"Namely","rawCompany":"namely","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-07-08T03:26:13.817Z","occupations":[{"code":"11-9041.00","title":"Architectural and Engineering Managers","slug":"architectural-and-engineering-managers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"17-2199.00","title":"Engineers, All Other","slug":"engineers-all-other"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Engineering Leader, Platform Engineering","description":"ClassDojo's goal is to give every child on Earth an education they love.\n\nWe started by building a communication network that connects teachers, children, and families. Today, ClassDojo is used in the vast majority of U.S. schools and reaches tens of millions of children and families globally. We're now expanding beyond communication into building the best possible learning experiences for kids everywhere.\n\nWe're a small, high-talent-density team with experience from leading technology companies. We value ownership, speed, and thoughtful decision-making, and we aim to create an environment where people can do the best work of their careers.\n\nWe're hiring an Engineering Leader to own ClassDojo's Platform engineering org end-to-end for infrastructure, data, developer experience, and AI tooling.\n\nAs the Engineering Lead for Platform, you'll manage the engineering managers across these teams as well as perform the EM role for teams when needed. You’ll work with our product engineering areas as your customers, set platform engineering practices and quality, and make the build‑vs‑buy and architecture trade‑offs that shape how every engineer at ClassDojo ships.\n\nThis is a manager-of-managers role with real architectural and strategic ownership. You'll have 2 to 4 engineering managers reporting in, and your work multiplies across the entire engineering org. 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