VP of Platform Engineering

United States | Full-time | Fully remote

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Let’s Tango! Where Innovation Meets Impact.

At Tango we’re all about helping businesses make smarter decisions through powerful technology, insightful data, and a whole lot of collaboration. Whether you're a creative thinker, a strategic planner, a tech wizard, or a customer champion, there's a place for you on our team. We believe work should be meaningful and fun — so if you're ready to make a difference while enjoying the journey, come join us and let's Tango!

We are looking for a VP of Platform Engineering to join our dynamic and growing Engineering team!

 

Responsibilities

Cloud modernization & platform evolution 

  • Own the strategy and execution for cloud modernization, including re-platforming legacy systems, standardizing deployment patterns, and improving scalability and resilience. 
  • Build and evolve core platform capabilities such as CI/CD, infrastructure automation, environment management, and service tooling. 
  • Drive architectural consistency across a growing B2B SaaS platform while enabling team autonomy. 

Create and scale a Shared Services team 

  • Establish and lead a Shared Services engineering team responsible for foundational platform services, with initial focus on identity, authentication, and authorization. 
  • Define clear ownership boundaries between shared services and application teams, emphasizing enablement over control. 
  • Partner closely with product and application engineering teams to drive adoption of shared services through strong APIs, documentation, tooling, and developer experience. 
  • Treat shared services as internal products: define roadmaps, SLAs, reliability expectations, and success metrics. 
  • Balance standardization with flexibility to ensure shared services accelerate—not slow—product development. 

Build an SRE culture 

  • Establish reliability engineering practices including SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, incident response, postmortems, and capacity planning. 
  • Improve observability and operational readiness through monitoring, alerting, tracing, and runbooks. 
  • Work with application teams to improve operability, resilience, and production readiness through better design patterns and automation. 

Leadership & org building 

  • Lead and grow teams across platform engineering, shared services, and DevOps/SRE. 
  • Build a performance-oriented culture rooted in learning, coaching, and accountability. 
  • Define and track platform success metrics such as reliability, developer satisfaction, delivery speed, and operational efficiency. 
  • Partner with Engineering, Product, and Architecture leadership to align platform investments with business outcomes. 

 

About You: 

Leadership & experience 

  • 10+ years of experience building and leading platform engineering teams in modern B2B SaaS environments. 
  • Proven success leading leaders (engineering managers, staff/principal engineers). 
  • Strong ability to drive cross-team adoption of shared platforms and services through influence and collaboration. 

Platform & architecture depth 

  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and operating production SaaS systems at scale. 
  • Experience building shared services or platform teams (identity, auth, platform APIs, infrastructure services). 
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and internal developer platforms. 

Reliability & operational excellence 

  • Demonstrated experience establishing SRE practices and improving reliability outcomes. 
  • Comfort owning operational maturity, on-call models, and incident management processes. 

Nice to have 

  • Experience modernizing identity and authentication systems (SSO, OAuth/OIDC, RBAC/ABAC). 
  • Background in platform product management or internal tooling. 
  • FinOps or cloud cost-optimization experience. 

 

What We Offer

We’re committed to creating an environment where you can thrive—professionally and personally. Our offerings include:

  • Competitive Compensation We recognize and reward your contributions with a salary package that reflects your value.
  • Comprehensive Benefits Including health, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, and generous paid time off to support your well-being.
  • Flexible Work Environment Whether remote, hybrid, or in-office, we support work arrangements that promote productivity and balance.
  • Inclusive & Collaborative Culture We foster a workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, teamwork is encouraged, and everyone has a voice.

 

Tango is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, parental status, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, disability, or veteran status. 

 

 
 
 
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