[All remote jobs](https://jobicy.com/jobs.md)[![ClassDojo logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2025/06/656b6a00-221.png)](https://jobicy.com/company/classdojo.md)[ClassDojo](https://jobicy.com/company/classdojo.md) # Engineering Leader, Platform Engineering Review the role, location requirements, compensation details, and application process before deciding whether this opportunity fits your next career move. [Apply for this job](#job-application)[View company](https://jobicy.com/company/classdojo.md)ShareRemote from[USA](https://jobicy.com/job-region/usa.md)SalaryUSD 204k–280k / yrDepartment[DevOps & Infrastructure](https://jobicy.com/categories/admin.md)EmploymentFull TimeExperienceSeniorPublished23 Oct 2026Apply before22 Nov 2026Listing views53Application actions4Application toolkit ## Make your next move. Prepare your resume, explore your fit, and draft a cover letter for this opportunity. AI Summary ## The role, at a glance. ClassDojo seeks a senior engineering leader to own its multi-team Platform organization across infrastructure, data, developer experience, and AI tooling. The role manages two to four engineering managers, sets platform strategy, and makes architecture and build-versus-buy decisions affecting the wider engineering organization. Key accountability includes platform reliability, SLAs/SLOs, incident response, technical-debt trade-offs, and customer-oriented internal platform adoption. The leader will coach managers, partner with product, security, operations, and data leaders, and advance AI-native development practices in a distributed environment. ## Role DNA A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description. ### Job Complexity 5/5EasyHard ### Pace & Pressure 5/5RelaxedFast-paced ### Autonomy Level 5/5GuidedFull ownership ### Communication Load 5/5IndependentCollaborative AI insightThis is a manager-of-managers position requiring more than 10 years of technical experience and ownership of organization-wide platform strategy. It combines people leadership, high-stakes architectural judgment, reliability accountability, and influence across multiple engineering functions. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles. Estimated job median (per year)Market rate$242,000US market range (per year)$210k–$290k0$319k AI insightThe yearly pay period is inferred from the job context; it was not explicitly stated by the employer. The employer discloses a US base-salary range of $204,000–$280,000 USD, varying by state. The posting does not explicitly state the cadence, but yearly compensation is inferred from the six-figure US full-time leadership salary ranges. Estimated US annual market compensation for a platform engineering leader is $210,000–$290,000 USD; this is an AI estimate, not verified salary research. ## Core skills Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity. [Platform engineering](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Platform%20engineering.md)[Engineering leadership](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Engineering%20leadership.md)[People management](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=People%20management.md)[Manager coaching](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Manager%20coaching.md)[Infrastructure strategy](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Infrastructure%20strategy.md)[Developer experience](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Developer%20experience.md)[Cloud architecture](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Cloud%20architecture.md)[Reliability engineering](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Reliability%20engineering.md)[SLA management](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=SLA%20management.md)[SLO management](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=SLO%20management.md)[Incident response](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Incident%20response.md)[Technical roadmap planning](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Technical%20roadmap%20planning.md)[Build-versus-buy analysis](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Build-versus-buy%20analysis.md)[AI developer tooling](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=AI%20developer%20tooling.md)[Cross-functional collaboration](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Cross-functional%20collaboration.md) Sample interview questionsHow would you create a platform roadmap that serves multiple product-engineering teams with competing needs?I would start with structured discovery across engineering areas, combining qualitative interviews with data on reliability, delivery friction, cost, and adoption. I would define shared outcomes, prioritize initiatives by impact and strategic alignment, publish the trade-offs, and review the roadmap regularly with product-engineering leaders. Describe how you decide whether to build, buy, or extend a platform capability. I evaluate strategic differentiation, total cost of ownership, security and compliance needs, integration complexity, operational burden, vendor risk, and the speed required. I make the decision explicit, document assumptions, and establish success measures so that the choice can be revisited if the context changes. How do you ensure an internal developer platform earns adoption rather than becoming a mandated tool? I treat engineering teams as customers and focus on removing meaningful friction through opinionated golden paths, strong documentation, and reliable support. I measure adoption and satisfaction, involve early adopters in design, and use feedback to improve the product before expanding it broadly. How would you develop engineering managers who are performing adequately but not yet at a high level? I would set clear expectations for leadership, execution, technical judgment, and talent development, then provide direct and timely feedback. Together we would create a focused growth plan with observable milestones, regular coaching, and opportunities to practice new behaviors while maintaining accountability for results. What metrics would you use to assess the health of a platform organization? I would balance customer and operational measures: developer adoption and satisfaction, lead time and deployment reliability, service availability and SLO attainment, incident frequency and recovery time, infrastructure cost efficiency, and progress against strategic roadmap outcomes. Metrics should guide decisions rather than replace qualitative understanding of team and customer needs. Opportunity details ## About this role. ClassDojo’s goal is to give every child on Earth an education they love. We started by building a communication network that connects teachers, children, and families. Today, ClassDojo is used in the vast majority of U.S. schools and reaches tens of millions of children and families globally. We’re now expanding beyond communication into building the best possible learning experiences for kids everywhere. We’re a small, high-talent-density team with experience from leading technology companies. We value ownership, speed, and thoughtful decision-making, and we aim to create an environment where people can do the best work of their careers. We’re hiring an Engineering Leader to own ClassDojo’s Platform engineering org end-to-end for infrastructure, data, developer experience, and AI tooling. As the Engineering Lead for Platform, you’ll manage the engineering managers across these teams as well as perform the EM role for teams when needed. You’ll work with our product engineering areas as your customers, set platform engineering practices and quality, and make the build-vs-buy and architecture trade-offs that shape how every engineer at ClassDojo ships. This is a manager-of-managers role with real architectural and strategic ownership. You’ll have 2 to 4 engineering managers reporting in, and your work multiplies across the entire engineering org. You will be expected to set direction, not just execute on it. ### What You’ll Do Lead a multi-team Platform org * Own Platform’s company-level objectives and the engineering plan that delivers them. * Translate company priorities and product-engineering needs into a platform roadmap, in a way that flows both up and down. * Be responsible for build-vs-buy and architecture-level trade-offs across infrastructure, data, developer experience, and AI tooling; own the technical roadmap and how it balances against the needs of your customers. * Represent Platform and collaborate with cross-functional leadership partners and in engineering-wide leadership conversations. Develop the engineering managers reporting to you * Coach EMs to a higher bar with clear feedback, growth plans, and direct support. * Drive AI-native development in line with ClassDojo’s engineering practices (flow-based delivery, vertical slicing, WIP discipline, Definition of Done, observability) * Address performance issues early and clearly; develop managers out of “fine” performance into great performance. * Be directive when our values, quality bar, or ways of working are at stake. Run platform towards the long term * Treat the product engineering areas as customers: understand their needs, measure adoption and satisfaction, and prioritize accordingly. * Build paved roads and golden paths that teams want to use; earn adoption rather than mandating it. * Take accountability for SLAs/SLOs and incident response across the platform surface. * Make tech-debt and reliability trade-offs on purpose, not by accident. Drive technical excellence across the platform * Support and drive architecture and systems design decisions across infrastructure, data, DevEx, and AI tooling; ensure systems are reliable, maintainable, and operationally ready. * Make build-vs-buy calls deliberately; avoid both not-invented-here and unmanaged sprawl. Partner cross-functionally * Co-own the platform roadmap and quality bar with the product engineering leads who depend on you. * Partner with Security, Ops, Data, and other functions as the platform requires. * Build pragmatic interim solutions that work today and migrate cleanly as platform capabilities mature. ### You Will Be a Match If You… * 2+ years managing managers, with direct reports who were themselves people managers. * 10+ years total in technical roles, with a strong individual-contributor era you can still draw on. * Have owned a platform, infrastructure, data, or developer-productivity area and delivered a measurable outcome (throughput, reliability, cost, or operational safety). * Have built or evolved platform engineering practices across multiple teams, not just within one, and earned adoption. * Have hired, developed, and managed engineering managers. * Comfortable making and defending build-vs-buy and architecture-level trade-offs across the platform surface; can still reason about code with taste. * Embrace Candor > Harmony: give the hard message early, comfortable with disagreement. * Use LLM-based tools daily and push your teams to adopt them. * Are an excellent written communicator; can articulate strategy and trade-offs clearly in writing. ### Nice to Have * Experience running infrastructure, data, DevEx, or AI platforms at meaningful scale. * Has built developer platforms that internal engineers genuinely adopted (paved roads, golden paths, internal developer platforms). * Has used AI-native workflows to materially change how a team designs, ships, and operates, and/or has built AI tooling/platform for other engineers (not just personal use). * Experience leading a remote-first, distributed engineering team. * Brings a network of high-quality platform/infrastructure engineering talent. [1] Some more context: (If you are on LinkedIn, you will not be able to access the hyperlinks below. Once you click apply, you will be directed to our career website (if you are not on there already) and will be able to access the hyperlinks) * [How ClassDojo Connects Parents, Students, and Teachers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XBnlzHpXTQ) * “[Whats New on ClassDojo 2023](https://youtu.be/O8Tora5T7O4)” * [TechCrunch Article: Second Act comes with First Profits](https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/26/classdojos-second-act-comes-with-first-profits/) Click [here](https://www.classdojo.com/press/) if you’re interested in learning more about what we’ve been up to. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We are happy to accommodate any disabilities or special needs. We are a distributed company, so we hire regardless of location, as long as you are willing to have significant hours overlap with one of the Americas time zones. ClassDojo takes a number of factors into consideration when determining compensation, including geographic location, experience, and skillset. Salary ranges (United States): * CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT states: $240,000 to $280,000 (USD) * All other states in the US: $204,000 to $238,000 (USD) #LI-Remote Show more [Apply now >](https://jobicy.com/jobs/156640-engineering-leader-platform-engineering.md) * ![Upload CV](data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) ### Upload your resume now To unlock remote work opportunities and be discovered by global employers. 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