Director of Engineering, Product Infrastructure and Release Engineering

11 hours, 23 minutes ago
Full-time
Executive
Software Development
Mechanical Orchard

Mechanical Orchard

Mechanical Orchard specializes in modernizing critical legacy applications through AI-driven technology, enabling the transition to maintainable and trustworthy modern code without disrupting existing operations.

Internet Software & Services
11-50
Founded 2022
$7M raised

Description

  • Own the end-to-end infrastructure product vision, including installers, deployment tooling, reference architectures, and operational patterns.
  • Define and evolve a cohesive infrastructure roadmap aligned with platform architecture, customer needs, and go-to-market strategy.
  • Manage the Product Infrastructure and Release Engineering teams and provide strategic direction across Platform and related functions.
  • Partner with Product Leadership to balance near-term customer needs with long-term platform scalability and repeatability.
  • Establish infrastructure as a product with clear value propositions, supported configurations, constraints, and lifecycle expectations.
  • Ensure infrastructure requirements are surfaced early in platform design discussions and that deployability and operability are first-class concerns.
  • Partner with Security and Compliance to ensure infrastructure designs meet enterprise and regulatory expectations.
  • Define and maintain installation and deployment strategy across customer and Mechanical Orchard environments.
  • Build and improve the system for reliable software releases by defining standards, tools, and team boundaries.
  • Partner with Sales and Delivery teams to support pre-sales motions, enablement assets, and complex customer pursuits.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or developer tooling.
  • Proven track record building infrastructure as a product, especially in complex enterprise environments such as cloud, hybrid, or regulated deployments.
  • Strong architectural instincts paired with pragmatic delivery experience.
  • Hands-on experience with latest AI coding tools, model capabilities, and industry trends.
  • Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally across Product Engineering, Product, Forward-deployed Engineering, Sales, and Security.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially around architecture, strategy, and executive alignment.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and deliver high-quality product experiences on tight timelines.
  • Bias for action and willingness to engage directly with customers and AI tools to solve problems.
  • Experience working in remote-first environments across time zones and collaborating effectively with distributed teams.
  • Willingness to travel to company/team meetings and customer visits about 1-2 times per quarter, up to around 20% of the time.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work environment with no in-office attendance required.
  • Flexible scheduling expectations to maximize collaboration across time zones.
  • Travel to company and team meetings, plus customer visits, only 1-2 times per quarter.
  • Equal Opportunity Employer with a commitment to non-discrimination and harassment-free workplace.
  • Reasonable accommodations provided to employees with protected disabilities, consistent with local law.

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