Director of Infrastructure

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop infrastructure strategies and execute them through detailed roadmaps and standards.

• Establish priorities and balance long-term infrastructure initiatives with operational requirements.

• Manage macOS and Linux fleets, developer infrastructure, code review systems, and provisioning processes.

• Create automation and configuration management systems.

• Oversee observability and lifecycle management across the infrastructure.

• Operate data pipelines and manage data engineering systems.

• Design and maintain billing infrastructure.

• Enhance macOS and Linux fleet management and strategize for multi-cloud expansion.

• Lead efforts in reliability, performance, availability, incident response, and troubleshooting.

• Participate in on-call rotations alongside the team.

• Contribute to architecture, implementation, debugging, and operational enhancements.

• Mentor fellow engineers and elevate the technical standards.

• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to communicate strategies, trade-offs, risks, and progress.

• Provide elastic compute capabilities across multiple clouds and regions for builds, CI, and simulators.

• Manage capacity planning, cost per minute, launches, and peak usage demands.

• Identify, evaluate, and establish or acquire data center warehouses for Mac and Linux fleets starting next year.

• Convert business requirements into actionable infrastructure plans.

• Report gaps, timelines, cost/speed/risk trade-offs, and updates to executives, engineers, and customers.

• Develop secure, reliable platform tooling and paved paths for product teams and agents.

• Enhance engineering velocity by identifying and eliminating cross-team bottlenecks.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong expertise in at least one low-level area: OS, cloud, or Kubernetes.

• Capability to engage at any infrastructure layer and resolve complex issues.

• Proven track record of spearheading infrastructure initiatives while actively participating in execution, including coding, debugging systems, and tackling operational challenges.

• Extensive experience in managing and scaling Linux and macOS fleets, focusing on provisioning, automation, configuration management, reliability, and lifecycle operations.

• Significant experience in building scalable cloud infrastructure, emphasizing elastic capacity and resource utilization.

• Familiarity with multiple cloud environments is a strong advantage.

• Knowledge of developer infrastructure, code review systems, and internal platforms.

• Ability to lead across data pipelines, billing systems, and other critical business services.

• Strong technical acumen across various domains.

• Extensive experience with on-call rotations, incident management, root-cause analysis, monitoring, and enhancing production reliability.

• Ability to foresee infrastructure needs, set technical direction, prioritize tasks, and convey decisions and trade-offs effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience thriving in a dynamic, fast-paced environment while balancing strategic planning with hands-on technical execution.

• Comfort with shifting priorities as needed.

• Willingness and capability to participate in on-call rotations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Participation in on-call rotations.

• Opportunity to work with innovative infrastructure, automation, and open-source/cloud services.

• Leadership and technical growth through mentoring engineers and driving infrastructure enhancements.