Who: You! And the rest of the Engineering department, Platform team, & their cross-functional partners.
What: A Director of Platform Engineering & Quality position with outstanding leadership and influence.
When: ASAP! We are looking to hire and onboard a new hire as soon as we find the right person for the job. Exciting work awaits!
Where: Our office hub location of Palo Alto, CA - you will be required to be in office 1+ days per week in alignment with our office work policy.
Why: Were looking for a leader to elevate engineering quality and platform reliability as Spotnana continues to scale. This role will shape the strategy, processes, and teams responsible for enabling high-quality product delivery while building a resilient platform foundation that supports every engineering team across the company.
How (to land the job!): Our interview process includes an initial call with the recruiter and five conversations with direct team members and cross-functional partners focused on technical depth and leadership.
The day-to-day:
Quality Engineering
- Lead and grow a world-class functional QA team, establishing and continuously improving testing practices across the organization
- Own defect prevention end-to-end - from PRD ingestion to production release - ensuring new features ship with high confidence
- Partner closely with product and engineering teams to translate complex product requirements into comprehensive, risk-based test plans with full feature coverage
- Drive the adoption of internal automation tooling and TestRail to scale QA coverage without scaling headcount linearly
- Define and track quality metrics - defect containment, escape, and rejection rates - using data to continuously raise the bar
- Champion a shift-left testing culture, embedding quality early in the development lifecycle rather than as a gate at the end
Platform Engineering
- Own and evolve Spotnanas shared platform infrastructure - including Temporal, Cassandra, Kafka, RDS, and adjacent services - that all product pods depend on
- Build and lead a platform team that operates as a core horizontal function, enabling every product pod to focus on feature development without worrying about platform reliability, scalability, or maintenance
- Define SLOs and reliability standards for shared platform components and drive continuous improvement against them
- Partner with infrastructure, DevOps, and product engineering leads to architect the right operating model for platform ownership across the org
- Serve as a technical thought leader and escalation point for platform incidents and architecture decisions
Leadership & Cross-Functional Impact
- Recruit, develop, and retain top engineering talent across both QA and platform functions
- Manage vendor relationships and tooling contracts relevant to your domain
- Serve as a standard-bearer for engineering discipline: CI/CD best practices, QMS frameworks, and operational excellence
- Drive a culture of transparency and continuous improvement through rigorous RCA processes, incident reviews, and blameless post-mortems
Skills & qualities we value:
- Proven track record leading both quality engineering and platform/infrastructure teams at scale
- Deep expertise in modern test automation strategies, frameworks (e.g. Selenium, Playwright, Cypress), and QA tooling (e.g. TestRail, Allure)
- Hands-on experience with distributed systems and the shared infrastructure components that underpin large-scale SaaS platforms - including workflow orchestration (Temporal), messaging (Kafka), and databases (Cassandra, PostgreSQL/RDS)
- Strong command of cloud platforms (AWS preferred), Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code principles
- Experience defining quality metrics, defect lifecycle management, and driving data-informed QA process improvements
- Demonstrated ability to operate as a horizontal enablement function - influencing without direct authority across multiple product teams
- Excellent communication skills; able to translate between technical detail and executive narrative
- Familiarity with agile software development environments and tools like Jira and Confluence
Perks & benefits you will love
Spotnana strives to offer fair, industry-competitive, and equitable compensation. Our approach assesses total compensation, including cash, annual performance bonus, company equity, and comprehensive benefits.
The base salary range for this role is $210,000 - $280,000 per year, depending on a number of factors including the candidate's working location.
We care for the people who make everything possible - our benefits include:
- Pre-tax and ROTH 401(k) options via Fidelity with up to a 4% company match
- Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability effective on your hire date. We cover 100% of your employee premiums and 85% of your eligible dependents
- Pre-tax flexible spending account options for health, dependent care and commuter expenses
- Flexible PTO in addition to 10 company holidays and an end-of-year company shutdown
- Up to 26 weeks of parental leave
- Monthly cell phone/internet stipend
- Extra perks - IATAN travel membership, pet insurance, financial wellness tools, Calm app access, and more