Lead Cloud Platform Engineer - 11419

What You’ll Do

Lead Platform Architecture and Strategy: Define and drive the long-term technical vision for cloud platform infrastructure, making strategic decisions on technology choices, architectural patterns, and platform evolution

Design Enterprise-Scale Platform Solutions: Architect complex, multi-tenant platform systems that support high availability, scalability, and security requirements across global cloud environments

Drive Technical Leadership and Mentorship: Lead and mentor a team of platform engineers, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and career development while fostering a culture of engineering excellence

Establish Platform Engineering Standards: Define and implement best practices, coding standards, and architectural principles that ensure consistency, reliability, and maintainability across all platform components

Build Advanced Automation and Tooling: Design and develop sophisticated automation frameworks, self-service platforms, and developer productivity tools that transform engineering workflows

Lead Critical Cross-functional Initiatives: Drive complex, multi-team projects involving platform modernization, migration strategies, and infrastructure transformation initiatives

Optimize Platform Performance and Costs: Analyze platform performance at scale, implement advanced monitoring and alerting solutions, and drive strategic cost optimization through FinOps leadership

Shape CI/CD and Release Engineering Strategy: Define enterprise-wide deployment strategies, release management processes, and continuous delivery practices that enable safe, rapid software delivery

Quality Engineering and Platform Quality - Own end-to-end quality strategy for platform and product releases, including test automation, performance, reliability, and release validation. Drive platform-wide quality standards, CI/CD quality gates, observability, and proactive defect prevention to ensure scalable, secure, and high-performing systems.

Drive Security and Compliance Architecture: Lead the implementation of security-first platform design, automated compliance frameworks, and risk mitigation strategies across cloud infrastructure

Influence Product and Engineering Strategy: Collaborate with senior leadership to align platform capabilities with business objectives and product roadmap requirements

Champion Quality Innovation and Automation: Research, evaluate, and integrate cutting-edge quality engineering technologies, testing methodologies, and automation tools that advance Coupa's platform quality and reliability capabilities

Build Quality-Focused Engineering Culture: Contribute to technical decision-making forums with a quality lens, lead quality-focused architectural reviews, and promote quality engineering practices and knowledge sharing across the engineering organization

What You Will Bring to Coupa

Senior Platform Engineering Leadership: 10+ years of hands-on platform engineering experience with 3+ years in technical leadership roles, including experience managing complex cloud infrastructure at enterprise scale

Advanced Cloud Architecture Expertise: Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures, multi-cloud strategies, and advanced services across AWS, Azure, or GCP, with proven experience designing systems that handle millions of transactions

Technical Leadership and Team Building: Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams, mentoring senior engineers, and driving technical decision-making in complex, fast-paced environments

Enterprise Platform Design: Proven track record designing and implementing large-scale platform solutions, including microservices architectures, container orchestration, and distributed systems patterns

Advanced Automation and Programming: Expert-level programming skills in multiple languages (Python, Go, Java, etc.) with extensive experience building sophisticated automation frameworks and platform tools

Strategic CI/CD and DevOps: Deep expertise in enterprise CI/CD design, infrastructure as code, and DevOps transformation initiatives, with experience implementing these practices across large engineering organizations

FinOps & Cost Engineering: Advanced knowledge of cloud cost optimization, financial operations practices, and experience building cost management strategies and tooling at enterprise scale

Security and Compliance Leadership: Strong background in security architecture, compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO27001, etc.), and implementing security practices in cloud environments