Director, Platform Engineering

Who We Are

Babylist is the leading registry, e-commerce, and content platform for growing families. More than 9 million people shop with Babylist every year, making it the go-to destination for seamless purchasing, trusted guidance, and expert product recommendations for new parents and the people who love them. What began as a universal registry has grown into a full ecosystem for new parents, including the Babylist Shop, Babylist Health, and a flagship showroom in Los Angeles. Hundreds of brands in baby and beyond partner with Babylist to engage meaningfully with families during one of life’s most important transitions. With over $1 billion in annual GMV, and more than $500 million in 2024 revenue, Babylist is reshaping the $320 billion baby product industry. We’re helping parents feel confident, connected, and cared for at every step. As we build the generational brand in baby, our mission remains simple: to connect growing families with everything they need to thrive.To learn more, visit www.babylist.com.

Our Ways of Working

Babylist thrives as a remote-first company, with HQ team members located across the U.S. and Canada. We meet in person twice a year—once as a company and once by department to strengthen the relationships that power our work. We show up consistently, stay purpose-driven, and achieve results —together, from anywhere.

Our Tech Stack

• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Languages & Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, React
• Databases & Data: MySQL, Redis, Snowflake
• CI/CD & Observability: GitHub Actions, Datadog

What the Role Is

As the Director of Platform Engineering at Babylist, you will be a key leader responsible for the foundational technology that powers our growth. This is a highly strategic role that involves defining the future of our platform to support our expanding business, from our core registry to new health services. You will lead the teams responsible for platform engineering, developer experience (DevEx), and security, ensuring our systems are scalable, secure, and empower our engineers to innovate quickly. This role reports to the SVP of Engineering.

Who You Are

• Define and Communicate Platform Strategy: Develop a clear, forward-looking platform roadmap that anticipates future business needs and scales for tens of millions of users. You will partner with product, engineering, and executive stakeholders to understand their needs, communicate the vision, and ensure the platform roadmap enables their success
• Build a World-Class Developer Experience: Champion developer productivity by delivering tooling, automated workflows, and internal platforms that enable engineering teams to ship code faster and more reliably
• Lead Platform and Security Engineering: Evolve our cloud architecture to handle increasing traffic and complexity while optimizing for cost and efficiency. You will lead the implementation of a unified security strategy, embedding DevSecOps practices and automated security tooling into the development lifecycle to protect user data and ensure compliance
• Drive Data-Driven Decisions: Implement comprehensive monitoring and observability to provide clear insights into platform health, developer productivity, and security posture. Use this data to justify technical decisions and guide your roadmap
• Build and Mentor High-Performing Teams: Recruit, develop, and lead a talented team of platform and security engineers. Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning that empowers engineers to do their best work

How You Will Make An Impact

• Experienced Leader: You have 8-10+ years of experience in platform engineering and security, with at least 4 years in a leadership role at a high-growth technology company
• Strategic Thinker: A technical leader who is skilled at creating a long-term vision and making pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions. You have a proven track record of leading large-scale initiatives
• Technical Expertise: Deep, hands-on experience with modern cloud infrastructure, containerization, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code. You have deep knowledge of security best practices and compliance for customer-facing applications
• Collaborative Communicator: You excel at partnering with cross-functional teams and can translate complex technical concepts for diverse audiences to influence decisions across the organization
• A Passion for the Platform: You are passionate about creating a fantastic developer experience and ensuring platform reliability. You lead with a strong sense of ownership and use data to drive results

Why You Will Love Working At Babylist

• We invest in the infrastructure you’ll need to be supported and successful: tools, opportunities to connect with colleagues, and a stipend to help you set up your office
• We build products that have a positive impact on millions of people’s lives
• We work at a sustainable pace which means work/life balance is a real thing here
• We believe technology and data can solve hard problems 
• AI plays a meaningful role in how we work, create, and scale—intentionally embedded in our tools, systems, and decision-making to support innovation and real impact
• We believe in exceptional management 
• We offer competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement
• We have great benefits like company paid medical, dental, and vision, a generous paid parental leave policy, and 401k with company match
• We care about employee wellbeing with perks for physical, mental and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning

Babylist takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location.

The estimated pay range for this role is $195,880.00 - $293,820.00

In addition, Babylist offers equity, bonus, and benefits, including company paid health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k) matching, flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies.

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