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Director of Infrastructure Engineering

$350,000–$500,000/yr

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About this role

Lead the strategy and hands-on execution for the infrastructure powering production AI systems. You will scale secure, observable, and resilient cloud platforms while shaping developer experience, reliability practices, and a high-performing infrastructure engineering organization.

Key Responsibilities
  • Own the architecture and evolution of multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP, balancing scalability, reliability, security, and cost.
  • Lead, mentor, and grow an Infrastructure and Platform Engineering team with a culture of ownership, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
  • Build reproducible, version-controlled, auditable infrastructure using Terraform or an equivalent infrastructure-as-code approach.
  • Design and improve CI/CD systems for fast, dependable, and secure software delivery.
  • Establish observability across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting to identify and resolve production issues proactively.
  • Drive reliability practices including incident response, on-call operations, SLOs, error budgets, disaster recovery, and blameless postmortems.
  • Partner with Security and Engineering leadership to embed security by default and support compliance with ISO 27001, SOC 2, and CMMC.
  • Reduce operational friction through automation and platform tooling that improves the developer experience.
Qualifications
  • 8+ years building and operating production infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE systems.
  • 3+ years leading engineering teams in high-growth environments.
  • Deep AWS, GCP, or multi-cloud production experience.
  • Strong experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, containers, and modern CI/CD platforms.
  • Demonstrated ability to build highly available, observable, and resilient production systems.
  • Strong knowledge of infrastructure security, compliance, and operational risk management.
  • Experience scaling engineering organizations and infrastructure in fast-moving startup environments.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical strategy with engineering and executive stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience supporting AI or ML infrastructure, large-scale data platforms, model training, inference, evaluation, or data-pipeline infrastructure.
  • Experience operating regulated cloud environments, including FedRAMP, GovCloud, or CMMC Level 2.
  • Contributions to platform engineering, open-source infrastructure, or developer productivity initiatives.
Work Terms
  • Full-time, remote position.
Compensation
  • Listed compensation range: $350, 000 to $500, 000 per year.
  • The stated national base-salary range is $230, 000 to $260, 000.
  • Employees are eligible for equity compensation and may also receive performance-based bonuses.

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