Sequoia Reviews

Salary, medical plan contributions and plan design

At the Director level for Platform Applications, the role provides a unique opportunity to influence the foundation on which multiple products are built. There is increasing recognition of the importance of platform thinking—driving reuse, scalability, and consistency across applications rather than siloed development. Leadership is supportive of investments in platform modernization, including API standardization, developer experience improvements, and shared services. This creates a strong environment to build long-term capabilities instead of short-term fixes. The India engineering team is playing a more central role in platform ownership, which gives leaders here real decision-making influence and the ability to shape engineering culture, tooling, and architectural direction. Collaboration across product, infrastructure, and security teams is improving, enabling more cohesive platform evolution.