VP, Engineering Platform

Our Engineering organization is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead our Platform Engineering division. Platform Engineering at Snyk is responsible for our Cloud infrastructure and the platform experience we provide to our internal development teams.  It is at the center of everything we do, and it’s stability, consistency and performance are a key part of our customers’ experience, and the way we can grow our company.

As the Vice President of Engineering, Platform Engineering, you will oversee everything from providing rock-solid infrastructure to low-level shared services, and from building a great internal developer experience through to setting the standards around our API and quality programs. You’ll also be the ultimate budget holder for strategic software and infrastructure vendors, so an interest in cost management and vendor relations is a must. The Platform Engineering organization at Snyk today is approximately 80 people strong, with office based and remote teams and individuals in the UK, Israel, Germany, Switzerland, Canada and the US. 

Reporting to the Executive Vice President of Engineering, you will lead, build, and mentor a best-in-class Engineering team at scale and contribute heavily to the evolution of engineering as a function at Snyk.

You’ll spend your time:

• Shaping overall R&D Strategy to achieve Snyk’s company goals as part of R&D leadership team and collaborating deeply with your peers to make our goals happen.
• Building long-term roadmaps to help us stay ahead of the next challenge and invest for the future.
• Ensuring effective engineering execution for this critical domain.
• Diving deep into some of the most critical technical problems that we face and ensuring that the team are covering all angles.
• Building and coaching a world-class leadership team to drive the evolution of this critical function.

You should apply if you:

• Have a track record of building and operating scaled up distributed software applications.
• Have proven experience at the highest levels of engineering leadership in fast moving technology focused companies.
• Consider yourself a hands-on technical leader, able to dive into the details of our most important programs.
• Are a kind and thoughtful leader who works to earn followership.
• Appreciate a fast moving, energetic, and collaborative environment. 

What You’ll Need:

• Proven experience in Enterprise SAAS at the highest levels of engineering leadership in fast moving technology focused companies.
• Expertise as a hands-on engineering leader, able to dive deeply into the technical details of our key programs as required.
• The ability to plan and succeed, setting milestones along the way, over-communicate, create alignment, rally people and satisfy stakeholders
• An appreciation for a fast moving, energetic, and collaborative environment

This job can be based in our Boston, Ottawa or London hubs.