Director of Platform Engineering

Job Description

About Checkr Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Checkr’s innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including Amazon, DoorDash, Netflix, Kimpton, and Anthropic. We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company . About the role As the Director of Platform Engineering at Checkr, you will be responsible for driving the organization's overall platform and infrastructure strategy. To achieve this, you will need to have a deep understanding of platform engineering and how to drive a strategic roadmap of foundational capabilities and, most importantly, its adoption by the other development teams. What you’ll do Define and drive the technical vision, architecture, and service ecosystem for a highly scalable, reliable, and secure platform that enables reuse and standardization across engineering teams. Lead execution and delivery across platform engineering, scaling systems, and processes to improve operational efficiency, cost optimization, and alignment with business impact. Partner cross-functionally with product engineering leadership to drive customer-centric platform solutions and foster strong cross-team collaboration. Build and scale a high-performing, inclusive engineering team, fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, transparency, and continuous improvement. Lead the strategy and adoption of AI-enabled development practices, including tooling, workflows, and guardrails, to improve engineering velocity, code quality, and developer experience. What you bring Demonstrated success as a Director+ level in leading, scaling, and retaining a high-performing engineering org of 30-40+ engineers 7-10 years of leadership experience leading infrastructure or delivery platform engineering initiatives. 15+ years of software engineering experience Data-driven mindset: you know everything built must be measured to understand impact; fluency with DORA metrics and engineering health indicators to assess and improve delivery performance Experience leading Platform teams, ideally, most of these teams: Infrastructure & Data Stores, DevX, SRE, and Core Services. Experience with driving successful platform adoption programs, with the ability to demonstrate the business impact of such initiatives Proven expe

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