Senior Director, Engineering Platform

Talkdesk · Porto

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Company
Talkdesk
Location
Porto
Posted
August 25, 2026

About this job

We are looking for a Senior Director of Platform Engineering to lead the strategy, architecture, execution, and organizational development of our Platform Engineering function. This role is accountable for the foundational capabilities that enable engineering teams to build, deploy, operate, secure, and scale software efficiently and reliably. The Senior Director will own the evolution of our internal developer platform and shared engineering infrastructure, bringing together cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, reliability, security, developer experience, and automation into a coherent platform strategy. The role requires a combination of deep technical judgment, organizational leadership, and platform product thinking, with the ability to operate effectively with senior engineers,

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