Hybrid Senior Director, Developer Platforms

at Cox Enterprises

• Job title: Senior Director, Developer Platforms
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $197,600 - $329,400 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• Senior Director overseeing Developer Platforms and engineering transformation in automotive technology company. Driving strategy for AI-native tools and optimizing engineering environments for better software delivery.

Responsibilities

• Owns the end-to-end product engineering toolchain that supports thousands of workloads and hundreds of engineering and product teams
• Partner with senior Engineering and Product leaders to deeply understand the Developer experience and reduce friction that slows teams down
• Partner with Architecture, Engineering, and Product leaders to define and execute multi-year Developer Platforms strategy
• Lead transformation toward AI-assisted and agentic engineering—optimizing the entire engineering environment for autonomous agents and humans to build software together
• Establish the "paved road" philosophy: create well-lit paths and self-service capabilities for teams
• Own the strategy for AI-native development tools—ensuring best-in-class AI capabilities are integrated into the Developer environment
• Drive the roadmap for the engineering data plane giving visibility into workloads health and quality
• Represent Developer Platforms as a strategic capability to executive stakeholders

Requirements

• 12+ years in software engineering or platform engineering
• 5+ years in senior leadership roles running platform or developer experience functions at enterprise scale
• Deep, hands-on familiarity with the modern engineering toolchain: source control and developer workflows (GitHub or equivalent), artifact management (Artifactory or equivalent), CI/CD pipeline platforms, and container/Kubernetes runtime environments
• Proven track record building or scaling an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) or developer experience function, including self-service capabilities, golden paths, and developer portals
• Demonstrated experience leading operational observability and monitoring toolchains—including log aggregation, APM, and incident management platforms—at large scale
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and secure cloud landing zone design, preferably on AWS, including infrastructure-as-code practices (Terraform or equivalent)
• Experience implementing AI-augmented developer capabilities—including AI coding assistants, agentic development workflows, or LLM-integrated toolchain automation
• Strong understanding of modern software delivery practices: DevOps, GitOps, feature flagging, progressive delivery, and observability-driven development
• Ability to lead through influence across a large, matrixed enterprise with hundreds of engineering teams
• Track record translating platform strategy into business value narratives for executive audiences
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience

Benefits

• Flexibility to take as much vacation with pay
• Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for own wellness or family members
• Additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave
• Time off to vote
• Jury duty leave
• Volunteer time off
• Military leave
• Parental leave
• Health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
• Retirement planning (401(k))
• Paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO)