Overstory · 13 hours ago
Director of Platform Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
10+ years expOverstory is a company dedicated to addressing the climate crisis through innovative technology. They are seeking a Director of Platform Engineering to lead their SRE, MLOps, and Platform teams, focusing on evolving their core engineering foundations to support rapid product development and customer demand.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Big DataMachine LearningSoftware
Responsibilities
Own the platform strategy across Platform, MLOps, and SRE, aligning it with company and product goals
Grow senior ICs (and eventually manages) across multiple teams, fostering strong technical leadership and healthy team cultures
Define and evolve our platform vision, including developer experience, internal tooling, CI/CD, infrastructure, observability, and reliability standards
Oversee MLOps systems that support model development, training, deployment, monitoring, and governance in production
Partner cross-functionally with Product, ML, Data, Security, and Compliance to ensure the platform meets current and future needs
Balance speed and stability, making thoughtful tradeoffs between innovation, cost, reliability, and operational excellence
Set metrics and accountability for platform performance, reliability, and developer productivity
Qualification
Required
10+ years experience leading platform, infrastructure, or reliability teams in a scaling startup environment, including navigating ambiguity, rapid growth, and the transition from early-stage systems to more mature, repeatable platforms
Strong understanding of cloud-native infrastructure (GCP strongly preferred), Kubernetes, CI/CD, and modern DevOps practices
Experience supporting machine learning systems in production, including model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management
A track record of building reliable, scalable systems used by fast-moving product teams
Excellent people leadership skills — you know how to coach managers, grow talent, and build inclusive, high-performing teams
Strong communication skills and the ability to influence across org boundaries
Experience in data- or ML-heavy products
Preferred
Experience with geospatial data, image processing or mapping technology
Benefits
Flexible working environment with a lot of autonomy.
Other benefits like a remote working budget, an educational budget and time to develop new skills.
Equity and a competitive salary.
Company
Overstory
Overstory is AI-powered grid resilience software that helps electric utilities prevent wildfires and power outages.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$68.07MKey Investors
Blume EquityB CapitalConvective Capital
2025-11-25Series B· $43M
2023-10-19Series A· $14M
2022-11-10Seed· $5.2M
Leadership Team
Indra den Bakker
CEO & Co-founder
Recent News
2025-12-03
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2025-11-28
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