Engineering Leader, Platform Engineering
Classdojo · Remote
About this role
## About ClassDojo ClassDojo’s goal is to give every child on Earth an education they love. We started by building a communication network connecting teachers, children, and families—and today we’re used in the vast majority of U.S. schools, reaching tens of millions globally. Now we’re expanding beyond communication into building the best possible learning experiences for kids everywhere. We’re hiring an **Engineering Leader (Platform Engineering)** to own ClassDojo’s Platform engineering org end-to-end for **infrastructure, data, developer experience, and AI tooling**. --- ## What you’ll do - **Lead a multi-team Platform org** and own Platform’s company-level objectives and engineering plan. - **Translate company priorities** and product-engineering needs into a platform roadmap that flows both up and down. - Own **build-vs-buy** and **architecture-level trade-offs** across infrastructure, data, DevEx, and AI tooling. - **Manage engineering managers** across these teams (2–4 direct reports) and step in as EM when needed. - **Develop and coach** engineering managers with clear feedback, growth plans, and direct support. - Drive **AI-native development** aligned with ClassDojo engineering practices (flow-based delivery, vertical slicing, WIP discipline, Definition of Done, observability). - Address performance issues early and help managers grow from “fine” to great. - Be directive when values, quality bar, or ways of working are at stake. ### Platform toward the long term - Treat product engineering areas as **customers**: understand needs, measure adoption/satisfaction, and prioritize accordingly. - Build **paved roads** and **golden paths** teams want to use—**earn adoption**. - Own **SLAs/SLOs** and incident response across the platform surface. - Make **tech-debt and reliability trade-offs on purpose**, not by accident. ### Drive technical excellence - Support and drive architecture and systems design across infrastructure, data, DevEx, and AI tooling. - Make deliberate **build-vs-buy** decisions and avoid both not-invented-here and unmanaged sprawl. ### Partner cross-functionally - Co-own the platform roadmap and quality bar with product engineering leads. - Partner with **Security, Ops, Data**, and other functions as needed. - Build pragmatic interim solutions that work today and migrate cleanly as platform capabilities mature. --- ## You’ll be a match if you… - Have **2+ years managing managers**, where your direct reports were themselves people managers. - Have **10+ years total** in technical roles, with a strong individual-contributor era you can still draw on. - Have owned a **platform/infrastructure/data/Dev productivity** area and delivered measurable outcomes (throughput, reliability, cost, or operational safety). - Have built/evolved platform engineering practices across multiple teams and **earned adoption**. - Have hired, developed, and managed engineering managers. - Are comfortable making and defending **build-vs-buy** and **architecture-level** trade-offs across the platform surface (with strong technical taste). - Embrace **Candor > Harmony**—deliver hard messages early and be comfortable disagreeing. - Use **LLM-based tools daily** and push teams to adopt them. - Are an excellent **written communicator**, able to articulate strategy and trade-offs clearly. --- ## Nice to have - Experience running infrastructure, data, DevEx, or AI platforms at meaningful scale. - Experience building developer platforms i
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