VP, Platform Engineering

Frontify
Switzerland
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 12+ yearsSkills: ["Strategic thinking","Mentorship","Hiring","Technical leadership","Cross-team collaboration"]

Lead Frontify’s platform engineering organization, setting platform technology strategy and execution for internal developer tooling, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, architecture, quality, and security. Manage a team of ~20 engineers and 4 managers, guide technical and architectural standards, and reduce friction for stream-aligned product teams. Own AI platform capabilities (model gateway, eval infrastructure, observability, safety controls) and ensure platform reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.

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Frontify
Frontify
1 month ago

VP, Platform Engineering

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Job Summary

Lead Frontify’s platform engineering organization, setting platform technology strategy and execution for internal developer tooling, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, architecture, quality, and security. Manage a team of ~20 engineers and 4 managers, guide technical and architectural standards, and reduce friction for stream-aligned product teams. Own AI platform capabilities (model gateway, eval infrastructure, observability, safety controls) and ensure platform reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
Location: Switzerland
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Provide strategic platform leadership by identifying leverage points and creating a prioritized roadmap.
  • •Manage and grow a platform engineering team across backend platform, frontend platform, DevOps, architecture, accessibility, and quality assurance.
  • •Make technical decisions to reduce tech debt and remove friction so product teams ship faster at higher quality.
  • •Own platform security posture by surfacing platform-level vulnerabilities and closing them before incidents.
  • •Drive outcomes across internal developer platform and AI platform (model gateway, eval infrastructure, observability, safety controls) plus infrastructure reliability and quality engineering.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Annual LeaveParental LeaveWellness StipendHome OfficePension FundLearning BudgetCommuter BenefitsAccident InsuranceEducational Days

Key Requirements

  • •Led platform or infrastructure engineering at scale with 12+ years in engineering and 5+ years leading other leaders.
  • •Built or matured an internal developer platform that engineers adopted by choice.
  • •Deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, reliability, and cost management.
  • •Set architectural direction across multiple teams and made it stick.
  • •Strong reasoning about AI/LLM platform needs, including gateways, evals, observability, and safety tooling.
Experience:12+ yearsSaaSPlatform engineering
Skills:Strategic thinkingMentorshipHiringTechnical leadershipCross-team collaboration
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Platform engineeringInternal developer platformIDPAI platformModel gatewayEval infrastructureAgent frameworksLLM observabilitySafety controlsCloud infrastructureDevOpsCI/CDReliabilityScalabilityCost managementDesign systemComponent libraryShared build toolingAPIsData infrastructure

Company Brief

Frontify
Provides a cloud-based brand management platform that helps companies centralize brand assets, design systems, guidelines, and collaboration tools to ensure consistent brand experiences across teams and channels.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: St. Gallen, Switzerland
Founded: 2013
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