Director of Platform & Infrastructure
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We're looking for a Director of Platform & Infrastructure to lead the platform and infrastructure function supporting our SaaS and Marketplace engineering organizations. This is a hands-on infrastructure leadership role, leading a distributed team of roughly 10 people spanning multiple regions and time zones, including a dedicated SRE-focused group.
What you’ll be doing
- Lead and grow a distributed platform and infrastructure organization, staying hands-on with the team when issues arise.
- Drive infrastructure modernization and cloud migration initiatives, including moving services to managed cloud offerings.
- Own reliability, deployment, and disaster recovery practices across the organization's core environments.
- Set engineering standards for infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and operational resilience.
- Partner with engineering and senior leadership to translate platform strategy into practical roadmaps.
What you’ll need
- Significant experience leading technical or engineering teams.
- Strong hands-on experience with a major cloud provider and modern infrastructure practices.
- A track record leading and developing teams, including through incidents and high-pressure situations.
- Experience working in a product-driven technology company.
- Comfort leading distributed, cross-regional teams.
- A direct, people-first leadership style focused on team growth and hands-on support.
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ShiftKey
View Company ProfileShiftKey (operating under shiftkey.com, legally ShiftKey, LLC) is the premier, enterprise-grade healthcare workforce marketplace, credential management pioneer, and labor scheduling orchestration powerhouse engineered to act as the definitive, high-velocity shift fulfillment, compliance tracking, and post-acute talent automation layer for healthcare facilities and independent licensed professionals nationwide. The platform completely eliminates the severe systemic friction of modern medical facility operations—where chronic nursing and certified professional shortages lead to extreme burnouts, skyrocketing patient care costs, and crippling operational dependency on traditional high-fee staffing agencies—by deploying a flexible, marketplace-driven talent matrix. Moving far beyond traditional, passive localized job boards or rigid corporate shift scheduling software, ShiftKey natively unifies a seamless, credential-vetted matching engine, instant per-diem bidding rails, automatic compliance monitoring loops, and an intuitive schedule automation system (SAMI - Schedule Automation Marketplace Integration) into a single high-availability marketplace. Partnering strategically with industry scheduler OnShift, the production-hardened infrastructure empowers facilities to gain full real-time labor analytics and proactively fill nursing, therapy, and medical support vacancies directly. Validated as an elite market disruptor and named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, the high-growth network commands a multi-billion dollar market presence, maintaining a staggering double-unicorn valuation of more than $2 billion backed by $300 million in institutional growth financing from top-tier private equity and venture groups including Lorient Capital, Ares Management, Clearlake Capital Group, and Health Velocity Capital. Under the hood, its technology core utilizes optimized matchmaking algorithms, automated cross-state credential verification tracking, and integrated prompt payment micro-services engineered to process high concurrent shift scheduling and financial payouts without reducing data compliance or field execution velocity. What sets ShiftKey apart is its uncompromising dedication to replacing fragile, high-overhead healthcare staffing models with absolute marketplace predictability, complete scheduling freedom for independent contractors, and structural clinical cost transparency; by bridging the gap between performance-intensive marketplace engineering and frontline facility patient care, the company remains a definitive cornerstone of modern algorithmic healthcare infrastructure and global workforce transformation.
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