Director, Platform Engineering

About Us

RB Global (NYSE: RBA) (TSX: RBA) is a leading, omnichannel marketplace that provides value-added insights, services and transaction solutions for buyers and sellers of commercial assets and vehicles worldwide. Through its auction sites in 13 countries and digital platform, RB Global serves customers in more than 170 countries across a variety of asset classes, including automotive, commercial transportation, construction, government surplus, lifting and material handling, energy, mining and agriculture.

The company’s marketplace brands include Ritchie Bros., the world’s largest auctioneer of commercial assets and vehicles offering online bidding, and IAA, a leading global digital marketplace connecting vehicle buyers and sellers. RB Global’s portfolio of brands also includes Rouse Services, which provides a complete end-to-end asset management, data-driven intelligence and performance benchmarking system; SmartEquip, an innovative technology platform that supports customers’ management of the equipment lifecycle and integrates parts procurement with both OEMs and dealers; Xcira, a leader in live simulcast auction technologies; and Veritread, an online marketplace for heavy haul transport.

About The Team

Our Technology teams work collaboratively from different locations across the world on multiple eCommerce sites, mobile applications, and automated online auctions. We encourage and celebrate technical innovation and work with some of the industry’s leading technologies and tools.

Every day your work will make a difference in the way we run our business and the in the way customers interact with us.

Job Description

Our culture is characterized by collaboration, inclusivity, and a commitment to continuous learning, fostering an environment where diverse perspectives lead to groundbreaking solutions. Team members are empowered to share ideas and experiment across teams in all aspects of the business, fostering innovation and creativity. Leading edge technologies and inclusive practices drive both individual and collective growth as we modernize and grow our tech capabilities.

The Director of Platform Engineering will play a pivotal role in continuing to drive the organization’s industry leading engineering platform strategy and implementation. This senior leadership position is responsible for overseeing the continued design, implementation, and governance of our Kubernetes based engineering platform, working towards rapid adoption while tracking customer performance, ensuring they align with business objectives and drive innovation. Leverage your deep understanding of lean software development and developer experience to create a friction free environment to allow for continuous deployment of business value while creating a joyful creative engineering environment.

The Director of Platform Engineering will partner heavily with the CTO, leadership in Engineering Enablement and Cloud Engineering to optimize investments based on qualitative data and input directly from internal customers. They will have an opportunity to work directly with industry luminaries in this space who have had an influence in the development of tooling in this space.

Responsibilities

Define and execute the company’s engineering platform strategy in alignment with business goals

Establish a clear vision for how platform engineering will enable a friction free, positive developer experience, ensuring scalability and adaptability

Partner with leaders in Engineering Enablement and SRE to enforce best practices for quality and value stream management within the platform

Partner with leaders across RB Global to uplift engineering teams into the platform environment

Partner with Engineering Enablement and Developer Experience leaders to establish relationships with key cloud and software vendors, managing costs and generating the highest ROI possible on investments in tooling

Lead initiatives to improve the delivery value stream across the organization

Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of technical professionals

Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the cloud and software engineering organizations

Communicate platform strategy and architecture initiatives to executive leadership and stakeholders

Present insights and recommendations to drive data-driven decision-making

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, or a related field;

8+ years of software development and 5+ years of management experience.

Strong knowledge of Kubernettes, cloud computing, platform engineering, lean software development

Proven track record of driving data-driven business transformations and managing large-scale enterprise platform initiatives

Experience with managing workloads and data distributed across cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and on prem

Established industry credentials, including publication, conference presentations, open source contributions will give you an edge

Demonstrated to be a quick learner, energized by challenge, able to connect and communicate new technologies to lead large scale change efforts