[Hiring] Technical Director, Platform Engineering @NRG

Role Description

We are seeking a Technical Director to set the technical vision for Vivint's Platform Engineering organization: the cloud services, event pipelines, APIs, and infrastructure behind millions of connected homes. This is a senior principal-level individual-contributor role with scope across a large organization. You will define platform strategy and architecture, and work closely with the Mobile and Embedded software organizations to ensure the platform meets their needs and that systems integrate cleanly end to end. In this role, you will be responsible to:

• Define the multi-year technical vision and architecture roadmap for Platform Engineering, aligned with company strategy.
• Drive architecture decisions across the platform organization, including service boundaries, shared services, data flows, and APIs.
• Partner with Mobile and Embedded engineering leaders to align on platform interfaces, device-to-cloud protocols, and integration patterns, and influence their technical decisions where they affect the platform.
• Establish and govern platform engineering standards for reliability, security, scalability, observability, and developer productivity.
• Advise executive leadership on major platform investments, build-vs-buy decisions, and technical risk.
• Lead technical review of the highest-impact platform initiatives, and engage directly on the most complex problems, including those that span platform, mobile, and device systems.
• Identify systemic technical debt and architectural risk in the platform, and drive multi-team plans to address them.
• Develop principal and staff engineers, and shape technical career paths and the hiring bar for Platform Engineering.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 15+ years of experience building and operating production software systems, including 5+ years in principal-level or equivalent technical leadership roles.
• Track record setting technical direction for a large engineering organization (multiple teams), not only a single team or product.
• Deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native architecture (e.g., GCP or AWS, Kubernetes, event-driven systems).
• Experience leading major platform architecture changes, such as migrations or service decomposition, from strategy through delivery.
• Track record of influencing peer engineering organizations and executives, and driving alignment without direct authority.
• Strong written communication, including authoring technical strategy and architecture documents.

Requirements

• Experience with IoT, connected devices, or consumer smart home products.
• Working knowledge of mobile and embedded software, including device-to-cloud communication (e.g., MQTT) and mobile API design.
• Experience with AI/ML platforms, or integrating AI into platform services and engineering workflows.
• Experience with security, privacy, and compliance for consumer products.
• Experience with private cloud or hybrid infrastructure and cloud cost management.
• Experience establishing architecture review processes, engineering standards, or technical career frameworks.

Benefits

• The base salary range for this position is: $265,000 - $340,000.
• Actual salaries will vary based on several factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance.
• Other rewards may include annual bonus, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards.
• The position may be eligible to participate in the benefits program which includes, but is not limited to, medical, vision, dental, 401K, and flexible spending accounts.