Platform Director

Gravitee is a 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader, on a mission to govern the world's intelligence. We deliver the industry's most advanced platform for Any API, Any Event, and Any AI Agent, trusted by global leaders like Michelin, Roche, and Blue Yonder.

The Mission: We are the first to bridge traditional API Management with the new frontier of AI Agent Security.

The Momentum: A high-growth Leader - combining market credibility with startup speed.

The DNA: We hire people who Hold Nothing Back - passionate builders who want to redefine digital infrastructure.

The Role: AI is reshaping how organisations build, ship, and scale digital products and APIs are the connective tissue that makes it possible. As a Platform Director, you are the strategic bridge between Gravitee's business goals and our technical execution. You will oversee multiple engineering teams, driving the delivery of innovative, high-quality platform solutions at scale. Your mission is to build, mentor, and empower the high-performing teams that will define the future of our product and our industry.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Cultivate Excellence: Lead, mentor, and scale engineering teams while championing a culture of innovation, radical accountability, and continuous improvement. Proactively identify skill gaps and engineer growth trajectories for team members through targeted coaching and professional development.
• Organisational Alignment: Ensure team objectives are seamlessly integrated with broader product and enterprise-level strategic goals.
• Mission Execution: Own the full lifecycle of engineering projects, ensuring high-velocity delivery without compromising on elite quality standards. Drive the architectural direction for scalable, maintainable software solutions that future-proof Gravitee's platform.
• Process Optimisation: Oversee the evolution of Agile/Scrum practices to maximise team velocity, predictability, and cross-functional synergy. Establish and enforce world-class engineering practices, including robust code reviews, security protocols, and compliance-first development.
• Risk & Resource Management: Proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks, technical debt, and resource constraints before they impact delivery. Monitor emerging technologies and industry trends to integrate cutting-edge capabilities into the Gravitee ecosystem.

Your impact will be visible, measurable, and global.

Essential Skills:

• Proven experience leading and managing Platform/Infrastructure teams (10+ years in management roles).
• 3+ years overseeing and managing a Platform/Infrastructure team of at least 8 people.
• Strong background in networking, automation, IaaC, containerisation, orchestration, databases (Terraform, OpenTofu, Argo, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, Mongo, Elastic, etc.).
• Experience and understanding of architecture principles across infrastructure platforms, API, security, data, integration, and application layers.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and tools like Jira or equivalent.
• Demonstrated ability to handle ambiguity, prioritise work, and resolve complex technical and organisational challenges.
• Highly motivated team player with excellent social, coordination and communication skills.
• Ability to work in an international multicultural setting.

Who Thrives at Gravitee: At Gravitee, our growth is powered by people who bring passion to what they build, act with professionalism in how they work, and hold nothing back in their commitment to doing things well. You'll do well here if you:

• Care deeply about quality, clarity, and impact.
• Are curious, adaptable, and excited by emerging technologies like AI.
• Take ownership and follow through.
• Value collaboration, openness, and continuous improvement.

Bonus points if: you've worked with APIs, cloud-native platforms, AI-enabled systems, or open source, but curiosity matters most.

Life at Gravitee: At Gravitee, we invest in humans, not just roles. You'll get:

• Competitive medical coverage.
• Pension / 401k program options.
• Stock options - you build it, you own it.
• 25 days holiday + in-country national holidays.
• 3 mental health days + wellness allowance.
• Your birthday off.
• Professional development budget to fuel your growth.
• Hybrid work culture with hubs across regions.
• Quarterly team events + annual offsite at an exciting location.
• A meaningful, progressive, global company culture that is as fun as it is hardworking.
• Endless growth opportunities.

At Gravitee, we believe diverse perspectives make better products and stronger teams.

At Gravitee, no employee or applicant will be treated less favourably on the grounds of sex, marital status, race, color, nationality or ethnic or national origin, disability, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy or maternity, marital or civil partner status, or religion or belief.