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Head of Infrastructure
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Role overview Lead the cloud and developer infrastructure organization responsible for the systems behind a regulated financial software platform. Set strategy across production infrastructure and engineering productivity, while guiding managers and senior technical leaders as the organization grows. The role balances secure, reliable, cost-conscious operations with tools and environments that help teams ship quality software efficiently.
Responsibilities - Define and communicate a multi-year strategy spanning cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and developer infrastructure. - Lead and grow an organization of engineering managers, senior technical leaders, and individual contributors. - Guide investments in compute, batch processing, storage, databases, CI/CD, test environments, observability, and developer tooling. - Improve data platform operations, including migrations, replication, backups, recovery, and performance. - Make integration testing, schema compatibility, release processes, and observability more dependable for engineering teams. - Work with product, engineering, security, data, and operations leaders to set priorities and measure results.
Requirements - Ten or more years of software engineering experience, including at least four years leading multiple teams, managers, or a substantial infrastructure group. - Ownership experience across a broad infrastructure portfolio, such as cloud platforms, compute, storage, databases, SRE, or developer infrastructure. - Deep knowledge of distributed systems and experience operating critical production services at scale. - Ability to lead strategy for both production platforms and developer experience, or to lead experienced technical leaders in these areas. - Hands-on familiarity with cloud services such as AWS or GCP, container orchestration, data stores, CI/CD, and observability. - Strong judgment in prioritizing foundational work, hiring and developing teams, and building alignment across functions.
Benefits and work setup - Remote work is supported; the listing also identifies offices in New York City and San Francisco. - Benefits include salary and equity, a 401(k), medical, dental and vision coverage, commuter benefits, flexible paid time off, sick days, and company holidays. - The package also includes 12 weeks of paid parental leave, career development and review programs, and budgets for team activities.