Director of Platform Engineering

🌀 The Company

Filigran, founded in October 2022, stands out in the cybertech ecosystem for its commitment to revolutionizing cyber threat management with a proactive approach. Its mission is to develop innovative open-source solutions designed to anticipate cyber threats, identify security gaps, and strengthen organizational security posture.

Filigran solutions are now trusted by over 6,000 public and private organizations worldwide.

🎯 The Role

Filigran is looking for a Director of Platform Engineering to lead our platform organisation through its next phase of growth. This is a senior leadership role reporting directly to the VP of Platform Engineering.

You will manage a team of 14 platform engineers and own the Platform Engineering roadmap execution across three distinct platform verticals — each with its own technical scope, customers, and operational challenges. You'll work hand-in-hand with a Technical Product Manager who drive product-led project management, freeing you to focus on people, architecture, and strategic execution. In addition to the three product-led verticals co-owned with the TPM, you will be directly accountable for the maintenance in operational condition of our SaaS platforms (support, provisioning, oncall).

🏗️ The Three Verticals You'll Own

☁️ Filigran Cloud

Our internally-managed, bare-metal Kubernetes platform — the backbone of Filigran's SaaS offering. This includes provisioning, capacity planning, the full observability/monitoring/alerting stack (Grafana-based), incident management, and SLA ownership. High reliability, high stakes.

📦 XTM Suite Deployment Artifacts

The packaging and distribution layer that enables customers to self-host the XTM Suite (OpenCTI, OpenAEV, OpenGRC). This covers Helm charts, Docker Compose configurations, and Appliance images — ensuring every deployment target is production-grade, well-documented, and easy to operate.

🛠️ SaaS Management

The tooling, automation, and processes that run Filigran's SaaS operations end-to-end — from tenant lifecycle management and provisioning to upgrades, configuration, and operational efficiency at scale.

💼 Your Responsibilities

People & Organisation

• Run 1:1s, set goals, lead performance cycles, and actively invest in the growth and well-being of every engineer on your team

• Build a culture of ownership & technical excellence

• Hire externally and/or promote internally to build leadership capacity across the three verticals

Strategy & Roadmap

• Own the platform roadmap across all three verticals, in close collaboration with the VP and the Technical Product Manager

• Translate company-level priorities into clear product goals and team commitments

• Make trade-offs explicit — between reliability, velocity, and technical debt — and communicate them clearly to stakeholders

• Represent Platform Engineering in cross-functional leadership forums

Delivery & Operations

• Partner with the Technical Product Manager to ensure product-led delivery is well-structured, tracked, and unblocked

• Own SLAs and operational reliability for Filigran Cloud and SaaS deployments

• Drive continuous improvement of incident response, on-call practices, and post-mortem culture

• Ensure deployment artifacts (Helm, Docker Compose, Appliance) meet quality, security, and usability standards across all supported targets

Technical Leadership

• Stay close enough to the work to earn engineers' trust, spot risks early, and guide key architectural decisions

• Set and uphold engineering standards across Kubernetes, IaC (Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD, observability, and cloud-native tooling (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Promote automation-first, as-code principles across all three product areas

• Promote AI-first principle — beginning with review/evaluation of code produced & changes, but also as a tool to brainstorm or improve velocity