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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Vice President, Platform Engineering - **Company:** Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - **Location:** Vancouver, WA, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $280,000.0 - $350,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Software Applications, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Service Stack - **Published:** July 28, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/63fd5f7f-24ab-4777-9804-ccf1968a1869 ## About the Role * Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field; a Ph.D. is preferred. * Current or prior engineering experience operating at the VP level within an established technology company. * 15+ years of relevant experience in engineering functions, including 8+ years in senior people management roles, and preferably 4+ years of technology / software engineering leadership experience managing global teams, serving multiple internal customer organizations, and delivering capabilities used by millions of users or supporting $100M+ businesses. * Demonstrable accomplishments in organizational development efficiencies and building a high-performing team of talented software engineers and leaders with diverse experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds. * Demonstrated success in delivering significant, measurable business value through engineering excellence, efficiency, and execution-speed improvements. * Deep technical expertise and experience in distributed systems, modern cloud-native software architecture, and modern AI-native software development lifecycle practices. * Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, and the demonstrable ability to develop and deliver persuasive, senior-executive-level content. * Excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build deep, trusted cross-organizational relationships. ## Description * Lead by example, fostering a culture of accountability, technology and architecture excellence, and a customer-first mindset across the organization. * Attract, build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of technology leaders with diverse expertise, perspectives, and backgrounds. * Lead the developer experience function, responsible for maximizing AI-enabled developer productivity, efficiency, and satisfaction by reducing friction across the software development lifecycle for thousands of developers building HP products' software and platform technology stacks. * Lead the security function, responsible for making secure software delivery the default path, with security embedded into application software, platforms, pipelines, and engineering workflows. * Lead the data and AI function, responsible for developing and executing a new vision for delivering trusted data, AI, and ML capabilities that software, platform, and product teams can use safely and repeatedly. * Lead the infrastructure function, responsible for delivering scalable, cost-efficient, secure-by-default infrastructure primitives for all software and platform engineering teams. * Lead the reliability function, responsible for defining and leading the reliability strategy and execution for the shared platform services that power HP's products and digital experiences. * Partner closely with stakeholders to implement and exemplify a true platform engineering producer-consumer model supported by well-defined, aligned service-level objectives. ## Related Videos - [Platform Engineering vs. DevOps Why not both?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/885-platform-engineering-vs-devops-why-not-both) - [Introducing a Digital Service Catalog for speed and scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/763-introducing-a-digital-service-catalog-for-speed-and-scale) - [Introduction to Azure Machine Learning](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/368-introduction-to-azure-machine-learning) - [Best Practices for AI-Assisted Development of Distributed Systems](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100200-best-practices-for-ai-assisted-development-of-distributed-systems) - [The Software Engineer 2030: From Coder To AI Orchestrator? 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