Director/Principle Engineer, Platform Engineering – TIP.AI Platform

Position Overview

The Director, AI Platform Engineering is a senior technical role responsible for

designing, building, and operating the highly scalable, resilient platform

infrastructure that powers AI systems across the enterprise. This role functions

as a principal engineer, building and architecting technical solutions,

establishing platform standards, and solving the most complex scalability,

reliability, and performance challenges, while also providing technical

leadership and mentorship across multiple engineering teams.

The ideal candidate is deeply hands‑on, systems‑oriented, and experienced

operating large‑scale, cloud‑native platforms that support mission‑critical AI,

data, and automation workloads. This leader thrives at the intersection of

architecture, reliability, developer productivity, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• * Define and evolve the core platform architecture for TIP.AI, ensuring it is
• scalable, highly available, secure, and cost‑efficient at enterprise scale.
• * Establish and maintain reference architectures, design patterns, and
• engineering standards for platform services.
• * Own platform reliability, including availability, performance, resiliency,
• and disaster recovery.
• * Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for core platform services.
• * Build and mature observability practices (metrics, logs, traces) to ensure
• deep operational insight.
• * Partner with security teams to ensure platform designs meet enterprise
• security, privacy, and compliance requirements.
• * Build internal platform capabilities and shared services that improve
• developer velocity and consistency.
• * Establish CI/CD, deployment, and runtime patterns that enable safe, fast
• delivery at scale.
• * Reduce cognitive load on application teams by abstracting infrastructure
• complexity behind well‑designed platform interfaces.
• * Act as the principal technical authority for the TIP.AI Platform team.
• * Mentor senior and staff‑level engineers, raising the technical bar across the
• organization.
• * Influence without direct authority, partnering closely with product, data,
• AI, and security leaders.
• * Partner with product, AI, and business leaders to align platform capabilities
• with TIP.AI’s long‑term roadmap.
• * Translate business and growth goals into scalable technical strategies.
• Required Qualifications
• * Deep experience designing, building and operating large‑scale, distributed,
• systems
• * Strong background in fault tolerant, auto‑recoverable software systems at
• scale.
• * Proven expertise in reliability engineering, scalability, and performance
• optimization.
• * Hands‑on experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or
• GCP).
• * Strong proficiency in infrastructure‑as‑code and CI/CD systems.
• * Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, mentor senior engineers, and
• set technical direction across teams.
• * Full‑Stack Entrepreneurial Mindset: Must have bootstrapped/built at least one
• full stack system delivered to real users.
• * Excellent verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex
• architectural decisions clearly.
• * Ability to produce/review extremely clean software documentation
• * Ability to effectively communicate async with remote team members across the
• globe.

Preferred Qualifications

• * Experience supporting AI/ML, data platforms, or high‑scale automation
• systems.
• * Background in platform teams serving multiple internal product or engineering
• groups.
• * Familiarity with security, privacy, and compliance requirements in large
• enterprises.
• * Experience driving cost governance and efficiency for large‑scale cloud
• platforms.
• * Prior work in highly regulated or global enterprise environments.
• Why This Role Matters
• TIP.AI’s success depends on a platform that is rock‑solid, scalable, and
• invisible to its users. This role ensures the foundation is strong enough to
• support rapid innovation while remaining secure, reliable, and cost‑effective at
• scale. It is a rare opportunity to operate as a true principal engineer while
• shaping the long‑term technical future of a flagship enterprise platform.
• At Marriott International, we are dedicated to being an equal opportunity
• employer, welcoming all and providing access to opportunity. We actively foster
• an environment where the unique backgrounds of our associates are valued and
• celebrated. Our greatest strength lies in the rich blend of culture, talent, and
• experiences of our associates. We are committed to non-discrimination on any
• protected basis, including disability, veteran status, or other basis protected
• by applicable law.
• All positions offer a 401(k) plan, stock purchase plan, discounts at Marriott
• properties, commuter benefits, employee assistance plan, and childcare
• discounts.

Benefits

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Full-time positions also offer coverage for medical, dental, vision, health care

flexible spending account, dependent care flexible spending account, life

insurance, disability insurance, accident insurance, adoption expense

reimbursements, paid parental leave and educational assistance.

Washington Applicants Only: Employees will accrue paid sick leave, 0.077 PTO

balance for every hour worked and be eligible to receive a minimum of 9 holidays

annually.

Marriott Headquarters (HQ) supports a hybrid work environment that helps

associates Be Connected. HQ based roles are generally hybrid and require regular

in-office presence at the assigned location, including for candidates who live

within commuting distance of HQ for a role listed as remote. Remote roles will

be clearly identified in the job posting.

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