Director of Engineering – Infrastructure & Operations

Posted 5 days ago

Apply Now

Resume Score

Check how well your resume matches this job before you apply.

Sign in to check score

About the role

  • Engineering director leading Motive’s infrastructure, cloud operations, and AI platforms. Managing reliability, databases, and distributed teams for fleet-management software serving physical operations.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and scale a high-performing engineering team responsible for core platform systems used across the company
  • Define and drive multi-quarter platform initiatives that improve system reliability and product leverage
  • Partner with product and engineering leaders to evolve the platform as a product, balancing long-term architecture with near-term business needs
  • Turn ambiguous, high-impact problem areas such as system scalability, reliability, and platform abstractions into clear execution plans
  • Drive alignment across teams working on interdependent internal platforms, infrastructure, and cloud governance systems
  • Raise engineering quality, operational excellence, and execution across the platform organization
  • Manage and mentor a multi-functional team across SRE, Operations, Data & AI Platform, and Database Engineering
  • Own the cloud platform and run infrastructure as a product
  • Drive enterprise-grade reliability for mission-critical systems
  • Lead during critical moments and operate with company executives

Requirements

  • 12+ years in software/infrastructure engineering
  • 5+ years leading Infra/SRE/operations organizations and managing managers
  • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  • Ability to collaborate and work effectively cross-functionally
  • Deep experience with AWS at scale, including VPC, IAM, multi-account environments, core services, observability, and cost optimization
  • High AI fluency, including evaluating, integrating, and governing LLM/AI platforms such as AWS Bedrock, Anthropic/Claude, and OpenAI
  • Experience interfacing with vendors and partners
  • Experience with cost governance
  • Strong understanding of databases and data platforms, including OLTP and analytics
  • Experience with data and ML/AI infrastructure
  • Proven record running high-reliability platforms, including SLOs, incidents, on-call, and postmortems
  • Experience driving processes and programs to improve engineering excellence
  • Clear communication skills and ability to manage escalations with CEO-level visibility
  • Track record of running infrastructure as a product, including roadmaps, stakeholder communications, and adoption
  • Applicant must be authorized to receive and access commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations
  • Nice to have: background in B2B SaaS or other high-reliability domains such as payments, logistics, or safety
  • Nice to have: leadership of global, distributed teams across time zones

Benefits

  • Health benefits
  • Pharmacy benefits
  • Optical care benefits
  • Dental care benefits
  • Paid time off
  • Sick time off
  • Short-term disability coverage
  • Long-term disability coverage
  • Life insurance
  • 401(k) contribution, subject to eligibility requirements
  • Restricted stock units may be included in total compensation for certain roles
  • Some interviews or new-hire training sessions may be held in person at a global office

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$229,000 - CA$300,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AWSCloud

Location requirements

HybridVancouverCanada

Report this job

Found something wrong with the page? Please let us know by submitting a report below.