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Director of Platform & Reliability Engineering

San Francisco, California, United States

At Forge, we know our team is our greatest asset. As technology innovators in the private market, our vision is to deliver a richer future for everyone. We live that vision through our values of being bold, accountable, and humble. We experience the value that our vision brings to the world every day, helping the teams behind the greatest innovations of our generation, from space travel to artificial intelligence, and more. 

With liquidity solutions, exclusive data and insights, a custody offering, and a vibrant marketplace, Forge’s goal is to build the best-in-class technology infrastructure to power a global private market that is transparent, accessible, and seamless for companies, their employees, and investors. Through Forge, employees can sell their private shares, employers can reward shareholders with pre-IPO liquidity and individual and institutional investors can participate in private unicorn growth. 

Forge's differentiated global marketplace addresses rising demand among individual and institutional investors for exposure to private company stocks and is building a growing network effect. 

Our ability to offer these powerful financial solutions has generated incredible interest from investors, demand from customers, and a need to grow our team to meet the needs of more companies, teams, and innovators in this way. 

The Role

The Director of Platform & Reliability Engineering will lead a critical engineering organization responsible for the systems, services, and operational practices that enable Forge to build and run secure, scalable, and highly reliable products.

This leader will oversee Platform Engineering, Cloud Operations, and Site Reliability Engineering, setting the vision for how internal platforms, cloud infrastructure, developer enablement, and production operations evolve to support the company's growth.

This is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned technical and people leader who can operate strategically while remaining close enough to architecture, delivery, and operations to guide strong technical decision-making. The ideal candidate will build high-performing teams, drive engineering excellence, improve reliability and developer productivity, and partner closely with product and engineering leaders to ensure Forge's platform capabilities scale with the business.

Location: This role requires 2-3 days a week in office in San Francisco, CA.

 

Responsibilities

This leader will be responsible for building and scaling the capabilities, teams, and operating model needed to deliver resilient infrastructure and strong internal engineering platforms across Forge.

  • Lead and develop the Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering teams, including organizational design, hiring, coaching, and performance management.
  • Define and execute the strategy for internal platforms, cloud infrastructure, reliability engineering, observability, and developer enablement.
  • Drive improvements in availability, performance, scalability, security, and operational maturity across production systems.
  • Establish and evolve standards for incident management, service ownership, operational readiness, disaster recovery, and post-incident learning.
  • Partner with product and software engineering leaders to create paved-road solutions that improve delivery speed, reliability, and developer experience.
  • Lead cloud capacity, cost, and architecture planning to ensure infrastructure investments align with business priorities and engineering demand.
  • Create and monitor meaningful service level objectives (SLOs), operational metrics, and executive-level reporting for reliability and platform health.
  • Guide technical architecture decisions for cloud platforms, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and runtime environments with a focus on resilience and maintainability.
  • Promote a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, automation, and operational excellence across the engineering organization.
  • Collaborate with security, compliance, and risk partners to ensure platform and infrastructure practices meet the needs of a regulated business.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time leading infrastructure, platform, cloud, or reliability-focused teams.
  • 5+ years of people leadership experience, including leading managers and building high-performing engineering organizations.
  • Deep experience with cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, observability, incident response, and modern platform engineering practices.
  • Strong technical judgment in distributed systems, production operations, service reliability, and scalable engineering architecture.
  • Experience defining engineering strategy, driving cross-functional alignment, and translating business priorities into platform and infrastructure roadmaps.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical leaders.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in FinTech, financial services, or another regulated industry.
  • Experience leading organizations through cloud modernization, platform standardization, or large-scale reliability transformations.
  • Strong familiarity with Kubernetes, container platforms, CI/CD systems, and infrastructure automation tooling.
  • Experience building developer platforms and self-service infrastructure capabilities that improve engineering productivity.
  • Experience at growth-stage companies where balancing scale, speed, and reliability is essential.
  • Physical requirements: operate a computer for 8 hours per day; give and receive detailed information through verbal and written communication

For residents of San Francisco, CA the annual salary range for this role is $235,000 - $245,000+ annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, bonus, and other factors

Upon offer, we conduct background checks that include employment and education verification, state, and county criminal history searches.

Forge is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

 

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