Head of Infrastructure

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

📋 Description

• Establish and communicate a long-term infrastructure strategy encompassing Cloud Infrastructure and Developer Infrastructure.

• Guide, mentor, and develop a team of engineering managers, senior technical leaders, and individual contributors.

• Manage portfolio roadmaps and make investment decisions spanning compute, storage, data platforms, developer experience, CI/CD, testing infrastructure, and observability.

• Set organization-wide standards for reliability, security, service ownership, incident management, developer productivity, and operational excellence.

• Collaborate with executive and functional leaders to align infrastructure priorities with customer commitments, product strategy, and business objectives.

• Create planning, review, and operational mechanisms to ensure visibility of progress and clarity of trade-offs.

• Guide architectural decisions, challenge assumptions, and engage in critical technical decisions and incidents.

• Attract top talent, cultivate leadership, and promote a culture of high agency, accountability, direct feedback, and teamwork.

• Represent the infrastructure team within the wider organization and establish it as a trusted partner to engineering teams.

• Scale compute and batch-processing systems effectively.

• Develop and manage storage and data platforms, covering migrations, replication, backups, recovery, and performance optimization.

• Create production-equivalent environments for customer testing, demonstrations, and internal development purposes.

• Enhance integration testing, schema compatibility, releases, and observability practices.

• Implement AI-enabled developer tools while ensuring quality, security, and governance controls are in place.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in software engineering, including more than 4 years leading various teams, engineering managers, or a significant infrastructure organization.

• Proven experience managing a diverse infrastructure portfolio that includes cloud platforms, compute, storage, databases, SRE, developer infrastructure, or comparable fields.

• In-depth technical expertise in distributed systems.

• Demonstrated history of operating critical production systems at scale.

• Experience in formulating strategy across production infrastructure and developer experience, or the capability to effectively guide leaders in both domains.

• Practical experience with AWS or GCP.

• Familiarity with container orchestration, data storage solutions, CI/CD, and observability tools.

• Exceptional organizational judgment and the ability to link technical efforts to business results.

• Proven track record in hiring, nurturing, and retaining strong teams amidst rapid growth and transformation.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to foster alignment across engineering, product, security, data, and operations teams.

• Authorized to work for any employer in the United States of America.

🏝️ Benefits

• Meaningful equity.

• 401(k) plan.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.

• Pre-tax commuter benefits for transportation, rideshare, and parking.

• Company-wide onboarding program.

• Opportunities for career development.

• Regular review cycles with 360-degree feedback.

• Quarterly budgets for team activities, merchandise, dinners, and more.

• Flexible paid time off (PTO).

• Sick days.

• 11 company holidays.

• 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents.