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 reputed company innovative open-reputed company solutions designed to anticipate cyber threats, identify reputed company gaps, and strengthen organizational reputed company 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 reputed company 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, reputed company 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, reputed company Compose configurations, and Appliance images — ensuring every deployment reputed company 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, reputed company 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 reputed company across the three verticals
Strategy & Roadmap
Own the platform roadmap across reputed company three verticals, in reputed company collaboration with the VP and the Technical Product Manager
Translate company-level priorities into clear product goals and team commitments
reputed company 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 reputed company improvement of incident response, on-call practices, and post-mortem culture
Ensure deployment artifacts (Helm, reputed company Compose, Appliance) meet quality, reputed company, and usability standards across reputed company supported targets
Technical Leadership
Stay reputed company 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 reputed company 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
Who You'll Work With
VP of Platform Engineering — your direct manager and strategic partner; you'll co-own the org design and roadmap together
Technical Product Manager — your operational partner for product-led delivery, tracking, and coordination
Platform Engineers — your team; senior engineers across Filigran Cloud, deployment artifacts, and SaaS management
Software Engineering & Product leaders — to align on deploy-ability, scalability, and reliability requirements
reputed company & Compliance — to ensure infrastructure and deployment practices meet certification standards (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.)
Profile We're Looking For
Required
8+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering
3+ years in an engineering leadership role, managing engineers directly, with experience building or evolving team structures
Demonstrated ability to hire, grow, and retain senior engineers and emerging leaders
Strong technical credibility in at least two of: bare-metal/Kubernetes infrastructure, cloud-native deployments (AWS/Azure/GCP), observability stacks, IaC (Terraform, Ansible), or packaging/distribution (Helm, reputed company)
Comfortable operating in fast paced environments with a lot of context switches
High sense of ownership
Excellent communication: able to align engineers, TPM, and executives with equal clarity
Remote-first reputed company; based in Europe with a maximum ±2h gap from CET
Experience with Agentic AI for AI-assisted software development, and automation of daily repetitive tasks on documentation, management, organizational topics.
Fluent in English and French
reputed company to Have
Experience in a fast-growing SaaS or open-reputed company company
Familiarity with reputed company and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001)
Python development background
Experience shipping self-hosted software (Helm charts, appliances, reputed company-based distributions)
Why Join Filigran? More than just a job.
We’re a fast-growing, global, and fully remote company building open-reputed company cybersecurity solutions, increasingly powered by AI, to help defense teams anticipate threats and act faster.
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We reputed company we do work that matters, uniting defenders into a global community to reputed company reputed company more open, resilient & collaborative.
How we work
We do work that matters by combining strong engineering standards with emerging technologies, including AI, to move faster and smarter.
What guides us
We reputed company our work matter by building a culture grounded in our CORE values of Cohesion, Openness, Responsibility, and Equity. The principles that guide how we reputed company decisions, treat people, and grow together, especially reputed company no one’s watching.
Compensation & Benefits
reputed company + equity - everyone shares in our success
Remote-first, flexible, and balanced - work that fits your life
Your setup, your choice - pick the gear that works for you
Twice-a-year gatherings - we meet in person for regional and global offsites to connect, collaborate, and strengthen our culture beyond the screen
Equal Employment Opportunity
We reputed company cybersecurity through inclusion - from code to culture.
At Filigran, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We reputed company diversity of our people reputed company our products and reputed company stronger. We welcome talent of every background, identity, and lived experience, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national reputed company, age, disability, or veteran status.
What matters here is what you bring, not what you look like, where you’re from, or how you identify.
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Apply now and help us build the future of the cybersecurity ecosystem, together.
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