Engineering Director - Compute Platform

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.