Director, Cloud Platform (Palo Alto)

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About ALSO.

About ALSO.
Were ALSO, an electric mobility company originally conceived as a part of Rivian. Were a passionate team of builders, dreamers, doers and innovators, focused on creating entirely new (not to mention, innovative and delightful) vertically integrated, small EVs designed to meet the global mobility challenges of today and tomorrow. Our mission is to inspire everyone to ride ALSOreplacing many local car, truck and SUV miles with ones on vehicles that are more affordable, more enjoyable and 10-50x more efficient.
The ALSO Software Engineering organization is seeking an experienced engineering leader to build and lead the Cloud Platform team. The Director of Cloud Platform will be responsible for the companys cloud strategy, core infrastructure, security, identity, and data pipeline, as well as providing the foundational infrastructure, tooling, and guidance that allows our backend developers to focus more on delivering an excellent customer experience and less on the complexities of maintaining robust infrastructure.
What You Will Do

• Define and own the vision, roadmap, and delivery of our internal cloud platform.
• Build the team: hire and mentor engineers to form a high-performing, empowered platform group.
• Design and implement scalable infrastructure primitives for microservices, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Own core data infrastructure: manage the architecture and operation of our data pipelines, databases, telemetry, and analytics platforms.
• Drive developer productivity through tools, workflows, and guardrails that enable fast, secure software development.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, firmware, mobile, and backend teams to ensure infrastructure supports current and future feature needs.
• Champion DevOps best practices including observability, alerting, automated deployments, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Ensure cloud security and compliance through strong policy, tooling, and security
  

What You Will Do

• 10+ yrs of experience as SWE or similar with at least 5 years in a management position
• 7+ years of hands on experience architecting and deploying cloud-native applications on a public cloud provider, including at least 5 years on AWS (GCP also acceptable)
• Proven track record of building and launching products at scale.
• Experience recruiting, building, and leading backend teams
• Start up experience - You understand what it takes to go 0->1, work effectively in scrappy environments, and scale products
• Knowledge of foundational infrastructure and data concepts (e.g. identity and access management, observability, service mesh, CI/CD, databases, and data pipelines)
• Strong expertise in distributed systems, IaC (Terraform/CDK), CI/CD systems, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and observability tools.
• Familiarity with data infrastructure (e.g., event streaming, ETL/ELT, data warehouses like Snowflake/BigQuery).
• Ability to work through ambiguity and deliver clarity
• Nice to have:
• Experience in IoT, connected hardware, or consumer mobility products
• Familiarity with mobile backend and real-time communication patterns
  

The salary for this position ranges from $270,000 to $290,000 per year , depending on experience and qualifications.
Why ALSO.
Were passionate about helping the world find a better way to get therewherever it is youre headed.
Were located in the heart of Silicon Valley and have brought together a world-class team from some of the biggest brands in the technology, automotive, cycling, outdoor recreation and retail spaces.
Together were working hands-on to imagine, design and build an entirely new solution to a global set of transportation challenges.
Perks And Benefits

• Robust health coverage. Excellent health, dental and vision insurance covered up to 100% by ALSO with FSA & HSA options.
• One Medical membership and dedicated insurance advocates.
• Rich fertility and family building benefits with Progyny.
• Flexible time off.
• 401(k) match.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Motor Vehicle Manufacturing

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