Director of Platform Engineering

Join Butterfly Network as the Director of DevOps & Cloud Engineering. In this high-impact role, you will lead our Quality Engineering and DevOps functions, ensuring our software and infrastructure meet the rigorous standards required of a regulated medical device company. You will own both the QA and DevOps disciplines end-to-end, setting the strategy for test automation, CI/CD pipelines, release processes, infrastructure reliability, and developer experience. You will lead a distributed team of engineers, partnering closely with product engineering, security, and regulatory teams.

Lead, grow, and inspire a high-performing team of QA and DevOps engineers, building a culture of ownership, craft, and continuous improvement.

Knowledge of security tooling — SAST, DAST, dependency scanning integrated into CI/CD

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the strategy for quality engineering across the organization, including automated testing frameworks, test coverage standards, and quality metrics.
• Own the DevOps and platform engineering roadmap, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation, and cloud cost optimization.

Requirements

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; comfortable operating at the director level and presenting to senior leadership
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), containerization (Docker, ECS, EKS), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CDK, or equivalent)
• Experience working in regulated environments (HIPAA, SOC 2, FDA, or similar) with an understanding of compliance requirements for software and infrastructure
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, QA, DevOps, or platform engineering, with at least 3 to 5 years in an engineering management or senior technical leadership role
• Proven experience leading both QA and DevOps/platform functions — either combined or separately — with a track record of building high-performing teams. Demonstrated success managing distributed teams, including offshore or nearshore engineers across multiple time zones
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Deep expertise in CI/CD pipeline design and implementation, release automation, and developer experience tooling
• Strong background in test strategy and automation — familiarity with frameworks for unit, integration, end-to-end, and performance testing
• Containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, ECS, EKS Opensearch or other Lucene-based search engines HIPAA, PHI, and PII compliance
• Experience with mobile QA (iOS/Android) in addition to web and API testing
• Experience with observability tooling (Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, or equivalent)

Preferred

• Familiarity with SRE principles and practices — SLOs, error budgets, chaos engineering
• Experience in health tech, medical devices, or other regulated industries

Pay

USD 250,000 - 250,000