The Director of Data Platform Engineering will oversee the data infrastructure, manage relational databases, lead AI integration, and ensure data governance while fostering a collaborative team environment.
Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.
Why join Coupa?
🔹 Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend.
🔹 Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence.
🔹 Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other.
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What You’ll Do
- Strategic Leadership & Vision: Define the long-term technical strategy and roadmap for Coupa's global cloud network infrastructure, aligning with business objectives and product goals.
- Global Team Leadership: Hire, mentor, and lead global teams of high-performing network development engineers, managers, and architects across numerous geographies. Foster a culture of continuous learning, automation, and engineering excellence.
- Project Planning & Execution: Lead complex, multi-quarter infrastructure projects from conception through detailed planning and execution, ensuring timely delivery, optimal resource allocation, and alignment with cross-functional dependencies.
- Network Architecture & Deployment: Oversee the architectural design, deployment, and scaling of complex network solutions strictly in public cloud environments (AWS, GCP, and Azure).
- Monitoring & Observability: Define and drive a comprehensive network observability strategy. Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and telemetry frameworks to ensure proactive issue detection, rapid troubleshooting, and deep visibility into global network health and performance.
- Security & Compliance: Champion cloud network security initiatives, ensuring the robust deployment of cloud-native security tooling (IDS/IPS, WAFs) to maintain strict compliance and data protection standards.
- Automation & IaC Strategy: Drive an "infrastructure as code" (IaC) and automation-first mindset across the organization to eliminate toil, streamline deployments, and improve network reliability.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Operations, Security, and Product teams to deliver seamless and highly available services.
- Operational Excellence & Budgeting: Manage department budgets, cloud infrastructure spending, and vendor relationships. Ensure operational excellence by establishing SLAs, SLOs, and leading high-level incident response.
What You Will Bring to Coupa
- Education & Experience: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience. 10+ years of professional experience in enterprise SaaS environments, including at least 5+ years in a Senior Manager or Director-level role.
- Global Leadership: Proven experience leading and scaling distributed engineering teams across numerous geographies and time zones.
- Cloud & Networking Expertise: Deep, authoritative knowledge of public cloud networking constructs with hands-on technical experience in AWS and GCP (Azure is a plus). Expert in cloud-native routing, DNS, VPNs, Transit Gateways, VPCs/Shared VPCs, and global traffic management.
- Observability Tools: Strong experience designing and utilizing modern monitoring and observability platforms to maintain highly available cloud networks.
- Project & Delivery Management: Demonstrated success in project planning, agile methodologies, and managing large-scale infrastructure rollouts from end to end.
- Security Acumen: Strong background in cloud network security, including deep architectural understanding of zero-trust architectures and deploying enterprise security controls.
- Automation Leadership: Proven track record of leading teams that utilize coding languages (Python, Go, Java) and IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation) to automate cloud infrastructure.
- Problem Solving & Communication: Exceptional critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Executive-level communication abilities to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and the C-suite.
Coupa complies with relevant laws and regulations regarding equal opportunity and offers a welcoming and inclusive work environment. Decisions related to hiring, compensation, training, or evaluating performance are made fairly, and we provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees.
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