Director of Engineering, Product Infrastructure and Release Engineering

Job Overview

Mechanical Orchard is reinventing how the world’s most critical software gets modernized.

We’re an applied AI company focused on one of the hardest problems in enterprise technology: rewriting complex legacy systems in a way that is provably correct, low risk, and fast enough to matter.

Job Description

Joining Mechanical Orchard means working on problems that truly matter-to our customers, their businesses, and the people who rely on these systems every day.

If you care deeply about quality, rigor, and doing the right thing-even when it’s hard-you’ll find your people here.

Manage the Product Infrastructure and Release Engineering teams. Ensure that the Imogen Platform is not merely “delivered,” but designed as a scalable, repeatable, and evolving product surface that accelerates customer adoption and long-term platform success.

Ensure all of Imogen's components are released and deployable into a diverse set of customer environments, meeting the needs of enterprise customers (quality, software supply chain audits, and more).

Key Responsibilities

• By focusing on system behavior rather than code alone, we turn modernization from a high-stakes, failure-prone effort into a repeatable, confidence-building process that unlocks ongoing innovation.
• We’re building technology and methodology that challenge long-standing industry assumptions, prioritizing proof over promises and progress over theatrics.
• Position Overview The Director of Product Infrastructure and Release Engineering is a senior leadership role responsible for the strategy, coherence, and execution of Mechanical Orchard’s infrastructure and release capabilities-spanning infrastructure products, installation and deployment workflows, and operational enablement for customers and forward-deployed engineering teams.
• In this role you will: Report to the VP of Engineering, providing strategic direction, product thinking, and cross-functional alignment across Platform, Forward-deployed Engineering, Sales, Security, and Product Management.
• Manage the Product Infrastructure and Release Engineering teams.
• Ensure that the Imogen Platform is not merely “delivered,” but designed as a scalable, repeatable, and evolving product surface that accelerates customer adoption and long-term platform success.
• Key Responsibilities Infrastructure Product Strategy & Ownership Own the end-to-end infrastructure product vision, including installers, deployment tooling, reference architectures, and operational patterns.
• Partner closely with Product Leadership to balance near-term customer needs with long-term platform scalability and repeatability.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Ideal Candidate Profile 10+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or developer tooling.
• Strong architectural instincts paired with pragmatic delivery experience.
• Hands-on experience with latest AI coding tools, model capabilities, and industry trends Demonstrated ability to operate cross-functionally across Product Engineering, Product, Forward-deployed Engineering Teams, Sales, and Security.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, particularly around architecture, strategy, and executive alignment.
• The ability to navigate ambiguity and deliver high-quality product experiences on tight timelines and in line with our business aspirations.
• are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

Work Location and Schedule

This role is listed as Remote USA with location information shown as Remote USA. The employment type is Full Time.

About the Company

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