VP of Platform Engineering
Locatee
Software Engineering
United States
Let’s Tango! Where Innovation Meets Impact.
At Tango we’re all about helping businesses make smarter decisions through powerful technology, insightful data, and a whole lot of collaboration. Whether you're a creative thinker, a strategic planner, a tech wizard, or a customer champion, there's a place for you on our team. We believe work should be meaningful and fun — so if you're ready to make a difference while enjoying the journey, come join us and let's Tango!
We are looking for a VP of Platform Engineering to join our dynamic and growing Engineering team!
Responsibilities
Cloud modernization & platform evolution
- Own the strategy and execution for cloud modernization, including re-platforming legacy systems, standardizing deployment patterns, and improving scalability and resilience.
- Build and evolve core platform capabilities such as CI/CD, infrastructure automation, environment management, and service tooling.
- Drive architectural consistency across a growing B2B SaaS platform while enabling team autonomy.
Create and scale a Shared Services team
- Establish and lead a Shared Services engineering team responsible for foundational platform services, with initial focus on identity, authentication, and authorization.
- Define clear ownership boundaries between shared services and application teams, emphasizing enablement over control.
- Partner closely with product and application engineering teams to drive adoption of shared services through strong APIs, documentation, tooling, and developer experience.
- Treat shared services as internal products: define roadmaps, SLAs, reliability expectations, and success metrics.
- Balance standardization with flexibility to ensure shared services accelerate—not slow—product development.
Build an SRE culture
- Establish reliability engineering practices including SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, incident response, postmortems, and capacity planning.
- Improve observability and operational readiness through monitoring, alerting, tracing, and runbooks.
- Work with application teams to improve operability, resilience, and production readiness through better design patterns and automation.
Leadership & org building
- Lead and grow teams across platform engineering, shared services, and DevOps/SRE.
- Build a performance-oriented culture rooted in learning, coaching, and accountability.
- Define and track platform success metrics such as reliability, developer satisfaction, delivery speed, and operational efficiency.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, and Architecture leadership to align platform investments with business outcomes.
About You:
Leadership & experience
- 10+ years of experience building and leading platform engineering teams in modern B2B SaaS environments.
- Proven success leading leaders (engineering managers, staff/principal engineers).
- Strong ability to drive cross-team adoption of shared platforms and services through influence and collaboration.
Platform & architecture depth
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and operating production SaaS systems at scale.
- Experience building shared services or platform teams (identity, auth, platform APIs, infrastructure services).
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and internal developer platforms.
Reliability & operational excellence
- Demonstrated experience establishing SRE practices and improving reliability outcomes.
- Comfort owning operational maturity, on-call models, and incident management processes.
Nice to have
- Experience modernizing identity and authentication systems (SSO, OAuth/OIDC, RBAC/ABAC).
- Background in platform product management or internal tooling.
- FinOps or cloud cost-optimization experience.
What We Offer
We’re committed to creating an environment where you can thrive—professionally and personally. Our offerings include:
- Competitive Compensation We recognize and reward your contributions with a salary package that reflects your value.
- Comprehensive Benefits Including health, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, and generous paid time off to support your well-being.
- Flexible Work Environment Whether remote, hybrid, or in-office, we support work arrangements that promote productivity and balance.
- Inclusive & Collaborative Culture We foster a workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, teamwork is encouraged, and everyone has a voice.
Tango is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, parental status, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.
