Job Application for Senior Director, Software Engineering at OneStream

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At OneStream, we're on a mission to empower every Finance organization and professional to exceed their potential. Our global teams span continents, cultures, and time zones, united by a shared purpose as we build the operating system for modern Finance and help organizations move with greater speed, clarity, and confidence.

That mission comes to life through our people. Behind every innovation, customer success, and milestone are talented people working together to make a difference. That's why we're looking for people who are bold enough to think big, authentic in how they lead and collaborate, curious about what's possible, and committed to delivering results.

Want a closer look before you apply? Explore our Careers site to learn more about our people, culture, and benefits.

As the Senior Director of Engineering, you’ll lead multiple engineering teams responsible for critical platform capabilities such as identity and access management, shared services, runtime and infrastructure platforms, observability, reliability engineering, internal developer platforms, and foundational architecture patterns.

You will be accountable for technical direction, operational excellence, delivery predictability, and talent development across the Platform engineering org. You’ll partner closely with Product, Architecture, Security, CloudOps, and other engineering leaders to ensure the platform is scalable, secure-by-default, and designed for rapid product innovation.

This role is ideal for a leader who can operate at two levels at once:

Strategic: Define platform vision, align the roadmap, drive architectural decisions, and ensure technical sustainability.

Tactical: Deliver reliably, improve engineering efficiency, and raise the bar on reliability, security, and quality.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Drive the Platform Engineering strategy and roadmap, aligned to business outcomes and product needs.

Partner with Product to deliver platform capabilities in a sustainable and scalable manner while ensuring clear architectural foundations are established

Establish and communicate platform priorities based on customer impact, risk reduction, cost efficiency, and developer productivity.

Lead execution across multiple teams and programs with a focus on predictable delivery, high quality, and measurable outcomes.

Build a culture of disciplined software engineering: strong planning, clear requirements, pragmatic architecture, and effective release management.

Ensure high-quality platform APIs, service contracts, backward compatibility, and versioning strategies

Own platform-wide reliability outcomes: availability, latency, error rates, and resilience patterns.

Partner with SRE/CloudOps to improve incident response, postmortems, operational runbooks, and reliability engineering practices.

Ensure platform services are designed with security-by-default, compliance alignment, and strong governance.

Work closely with Security teams to implement best practices for secrets management, secure SDLC, vulnerability management, and identity models.

Champion internal developer experience: self-service infrastructure, CI/CD modernization, test automation, and streamlined workflows.

Reduce friction and cognitive load for product teams by building tooling, documentation, and platform abstractions that scale.

Drive platform architectural direction: service boundaries, data patterns, eventing, multi-tenancy models, and consistency across systems.

Ensure long-term maintainability by managing technical debt and enabling modernization.
Establish and enforce platform standards (observability, security posture, patterns, tech choices) without becoming a bureaucratic blocker.

Lead, coach, and grow Engineering Directors, Engineering Managers, Staff+ Engineers, and technical leaders.

Build a talent strategy: hiring, onboarding, retention, performance management, and succession planning.

Create a culture of accountability, high trust, learning, and healthy engineering rigor.

Partner with Product, Quality, UX/Design, Customer Success, Support, etc. teams to ensure platform implementations are understood for customer/real-world impact or needs.

Communicate clearly to executives and stakeholders: roadmap status, risk, tradeoffs, and technical strategy.

REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

15+ years of software engineering experience with 8+ years leading multi-team engineering organizations, preferably in the CPM/ERM industry

Demonstrated success leading platform, infrastructure, or foundational architecture teams in a modern SaaS/product company.

Strong understanding of scalable distributed systems, cloud platforms, service design, and platform operating models.

Experience driving engineering excellence: delivery, quality, reliability, security, and developer productivity.

Proven ability to hire and grow high-performing engineering leaders and teams.

Strong stakeholder management skills; able to align executives and teams on strategy, tradeoffs, and sequencing.

PREFERRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Experience with finance, enterprise SaaS, or highly regulated domains (SOX, SOC 2, FedRamp, GDPR).

Prior OneStream or financial CPM Experience

Experience building internal developer platforms or large-scale platform modernization initiatives.

Experience with multi-tenant architecture and enterprise identity patterns.

Experience in high availability systems, and global scale operations.

Strong technical judgment with a track record of pragmatic decisions and long-term architectural thinking.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

Experienced Systems thinker who is able to see the whole platform ecosystem, not just individual services.

High-accountability leader to set clear expectations and delivers measurable results.

Exceptional “Builder of builders” proven to develop leaders and multiplies impact through people.

Highly skilled and proven pragmatic technologist

Proven track record for building platform capabilities that make product teams and customers successful.

Exceptional operationally mature to drive reliability, security, and scalability as first-class outcomes.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This position is responsible for the direct supervision management and senior technical individuals across multiple engineering teams.

TRAVEL

Travel Requirement: Regular travel is not expected for this position.

Benefits at OneStream
OneStream employees are passionate, hardworking individuals who go above and beyond to keep our customers happy and follow through on our mission statement. They consistently deliver the best and in turn, we make every effort to keep them cared for and happy. A sample of the benefits we provide are:

Excellent Medical Plan
Dental & Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
Short & Long Term Disability
Vacation Time
Paid Holidays
Professional Development
Retirement Plan

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Total compensation is based on experience, skills, and location using objective, job-related criteria. Additional variable compensation and benefits may apply.

Gross annual base salary

$297,500 - $366,000 USD

All candidates must be legally authorized to work for any company in the country where this position is located without sponsorship.

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