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What is the role of a Director, Platform Engineering & Quality at Spotnana?

The Director, Platform Engineering & Quality position at Spotnana is a Full-Time opportunity in the relevant field.

Where is this Director, Platform Engineering & Quality job located?

Palo Alto, California, United States

What industry does this Director, Platform Engineering & Quality position belong to?

This role spans multiple industries.

What is the expected salary for this Director, Platform Engineering & Quality job?

Compensation will be discussed during the hiring process.

Director, Platform Engineering & Quality job near me in Palo Alto, California at Spotnana

Who: You! And the rest of the Engineering department, Platform team, & their cross-functional partners.

What: A Director of Platform Engineering & Quality position with outstanding leadership and influence.

When: ASAP! We are looking to hire and onboard a new hire as soon as we find the right person for the job. Exciting work awaits!

Where: Our office hub location of Palo Alto, CA – you will be required to be in office 1+ days per week in alignment with our office work policy.

Why: We're looking for a leader to elevate engineering quality and platform reliability as Spotnana continues to scale. This role will shape the strategy, processes, and teams responsible for enabling high-quality product delivery while building a resilient platform foundation that supports every engineering team across the company.

How (to land the job!): Our interview process includes an initial call with the recruiter and five conversations with direct team members and cross-functional partners focused on technical depth and leadership.

The day-to-day:

Quality Engineering

Lead and grow a world-class functional QA team, establishing and continuously improving testing practices across the organization
Own defect prevention end-to-end — from PRD ingestion to production release — ensuring new features ship with high confidence
Partner closely with product and engineering teams to translate complex product requirements into comprehensive, risk-based test plans with full feature coverage
Drive the adoption of internal automation tooling and TestRail to scale QA coverage without scaling headcount linearly
Define and track quality metrics — defect containment, escape, and rejection rates — using data to continuously raise the bar
Champion a shift-left testing culture, embedding quality early in the development lifecycle rather than as a gate at the end

Platform Engineering

Own and evolve Spotnana's shared platform infrastructure — including Temporal, Cassandra, Kafka, RDS, and adjacent services — that all product pods depend on
Build and lead a platform team that operates as a core horizontal function, enabling every product pod to focus on feature development without worrying about platform reliability, scalability, or maintenance
Define SLOs and reliability standards for shared platform components and drive continuous improvement against them
Partner with infrastructure, DevOps, and product engineering leads to architect the right operating model for platform ownership across the org
Serve as a technical thought leader and escalation point for platform incidents and architecture decisions

Leadership & Cross-Functional Impact

Recruit, develop, and retain top engineering talent across both QA and platform functions
Manage vendor relationships and tooling contracts relevant to your domain
Serve as a standard-bearer for engineering discipline: CI/CD best practices, QMS frameworks, and operational excellence
Drive a culture of transparency and continuous improvement through rigorous RCA processes, incident reviews, and blameless post-mortems

Skills & qualities we value:

Proven track record leading both quality engineering and platform/infrastructure teams at scale
Deep expertise in modern test automation strategies, frameworks (e.g. Selenium, Playwright, Cypress), and QA tooling (e.g. TestRail, Allure)
Hands-on experience with distributed systems and the shared infrastructure components that underpin large-scale SaaS platforms — including workflow orchestration (Temporal), messaging (Kafka), and databases (Cassandra, PostgreSQL/RDS)
Strong command of cloud platforms (AWS preferred), Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code principles
Experience defining quality metrics, defect lifecycle management, and driving data-informed QA process improvements
Demonstrated ability to operate as a horizontal enablement function — influencing without direct authority across multiple product teams
Excellent communication skills; able to translate between technical detail and executive narrative
Familiarity with agile software development environments and tools like Jira and Confluence

Perks & benefits you will love

Spotnana strives to offer fair, industry-competitive, and equitable compensation. Our approach assesses total compensation, including cash, annual performance bonus, company equity, and comprehensive benefits.

The base salary range for this role is $210,000 - $280,000 per year, depending on a number of factors including the candidate’s working location.

We care for the people who make everything possible - our benefits include:

Pre-tax and ROTH 401(k) options via Fidelity with up to a 4% company match
Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability effective on your hire date. We cover 100% of your employee premiums and 85% of your eligible dependents
Pre-tax flexible spending account options for health, dependent care and commuter expenses
Flexible PTO in addition to 10 company holidays and an end-of-year company shutdown
Up to 26 weeks of parental leave
Monthly cell phone/internet stipend
Extra perks — IATAN travel membership, pet insurance, financial wellness tools, Calm app access, and more

Director, Platform Engineering & Quality in Palo Alto, California at Spotnana

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