Engineering Director - Compute Platform (Remote - United States)
Yelp
Summary
Yelp engineering culture is driven by our values: we’re a cooperative team that values individual authenticity and encourages creative solutions to problems. All new engineers deploy working code their first week, and we strive to broaden individual impact with support from managers, mentors, and teams. At the end of the day, we’re all about helping our users, growing as engineers, and having fun in a collaborative environment.
Yelp’s Infrastructure group ensures our services run smoothly, cost-effectively, and with the highest bar for reliability. We love building reliable, scalable, and innovative computing platforms that empower every Yelp engineer—and, by extension, millions of users—every day.
Do you enjoy solving hard infrastructure problems at scale? Are you excited to manage high-performing teams in cloud operations, cost management, and incident response? As the Director of Compute Platform, you’ll lead teams responsible for Yelp’s compute platform, driving initiatives in compute infrastructure and cloud economics. This director-level role shapes our technical strategy, empowers team members, and partners with stakeholders across engineering and business disciplines. Your work will directly impact the efficiency, reliability, and scale of Yelp’s systems, with broad influence across the company.
This opportunity is fully remote and does not require you to be located in any particular state within the US. We welcome applicants from throughout the US. We’d love to have you apply, even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp, we’re looking for great people, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.
What you'll do:
- Lead and mentor geographically distributed teams in the United States, Canada, and Europe responsible for designing, building, and operating Yelp’s integrated compute platform.
- Drive platform strategy and vision—prioritizing user and developer needs to ensure a reliable, resilient, and high-performing environment.
- Oversee the development and evolution of Yelp’s PaaSTA (Kubernetes-based) platform and related tooling to deliver a cohesive experience across the software development lifecycle.
- Foster seamless collaboration among individual teams, ensuring features, workflows, and integrations come together into one unified platform.
- Enable developer productivity by making complex infrastructure and operational concerns simple, safe, and intuitive.
- Champion best practices in observability, incident response, and SRE, supporting rapid iteration and robust safety mechanisms for production changes.
- Build and sustain a diverse, inclusive, and learning-focused team culture that reflects Yelp’s values and enables every engineer to contribute and grow.
What it takes to succeed:
Excellent communication and people leadership skills, with a focus on mentorship and developing inclusive, high-performing teams.
Deep experience with building and scaling cloud infrastructure and compute platforms in large or complex organizations.
Proven ability to lead globally distributed engineering teams, especially in areas like platform infrastructure, cost optimization, reliability, or observability.
Track record of delivering a unified and consistent developer experience—integrating tools and technologies across many teams and domains.
Demonstrated collaboration skills with both technical- and business partners, aligning platform work to user needs and company objectives.
Solid grasp of incident response, SRE principles, and production operations at scale.
- A Bachelor’s Degree or an equivalent work experience is required.
What you'll get:
- Compensation range is $210,000-372,000 annually. Depending on your role and level, you may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits.
- This opportunity has the option to be fully remote in all locations across the US.
- You can find more information about Yelp's five star benefits here!
