Who you are

- 12+ years in software/infrastructure engineering, including 5+ years leading Infra/SRE/ops orgs and managing managers with a strong sense for systems architecture

- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

- Ability to collaborate and work effectively cross functionally with a strong sense of ownership

- Deep experience with AWS at scale (VPC, IAM, multi‑account, core services, observability, cost optimization)

- High AI fluency – able to evaluate, integrate, and govern LLM/AI platforms (AWS Bedrock, Anthropic/Claude, OpenAI) for engineering and ops

- Experience in interfacing with vendors, partners and cost governance

- Experience and strong understanding of databases and data platforms (OLTP and analytics), Data and ML/AI infrastructure

- Proven record running high‑reliability platforms (SLOs, incidents, on‑call, postmortems).

Experience driving processes and programs to raise the bar and engineering excellence

- Clear communication skills and ability to manage escalations with CEO-level visibility

- Track record of running infrastructure as a product (roadmaps, stakeholder comms, adoption)

- Nice to have
- Background in B2B SaaS or other high‑reliability domains (payments, logistics, safety)

- Leadership of global, distributed teams across time zones

What the job involves





- We are looking for a seasoned engineering leader who will lead the Core Infrastructure and Operations Engineering

- You will be responsible for managing and mentoring a multi-functional team across SRE, Operations, Data & AI Platform, and Database Engineering

- You will own our cloud platform, run infrastructure as a product, and drive enterprise-grade reliability for mission‑critical systems

- As an engineering leader you’ll be be called on to lead during critical moments and operate with executives of the company

- Lead and scale a high-performing engineering team responsible for core platform systems used across the company

- Define and drive multi-quarter platform initiatives that improve system reliability, and product leverage

- Partner closely with product and engineering leaders to evolve the platform as a product, balancing long-term architecture with near-term business needs

- Take ambiguous, high-impact problem areas (e.g., system scalability, reliability, platform abstractions) and turn them into transparent execution plans

- Drive alignment across multiple teams working on complex, interdependent systems including internal platforms, infrastructure as well as cloud governance

- Raise the bar on engineering quality, operational excellence, and execution across the platform organization

📌 Director of Engineering (Vancouver)
🏢 Motive
📍 Vancouver