Director of Infrastructure Engineering

Remote | $350,000–$500,000/year | 1 Opening

About the Role

Lead and scale the platform powering production AI systems. Own the strategy and execution behind cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, and reliability practices — ensuring systems remain secure, observable, and resilient. This is a hands‑on leadership role for someone who thrives at every level: defining long‑term infrastructure strategy, solving production incidents, and mentoring high‑performing engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve multi‑cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP

• Lead and grow a high‑performing Infrastructure/Platform Engineering team

• Build infrastructure as code (Terraform or equivalent) for reproducible environments

• Design and improve CI/CD systems for secure, reliable delivery

• Establish world‑class observability across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting

• Drive reliability practices: incident response, on‑call ops, SLOs, error budgets, disaster recovery, blameless postmortems

• Partner with Security and Engineering leadership to embed security by default and maintain compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2, CMMC)

• Continuously improve developer experience through automation and platform tooling

Required Skills

• AWS and GCP expertise

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

• CI/CD systems

• Security‑first mindset

• Team leadership

Qualifications

• 8+ years building/operating production infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE systems

• 3+ years leading engineering teams in high‑growth environments

• Strong experience with Kubernetes, containers, and modern CI/CD platforms

• Proven track record building highly available, observable, and resilient systems

• Deep understanding of infrastructure security, compliance, and risk management

• Experience scaling engineering organizations and infrastructure in fast‑moving environments

• Excellent communication skills to influence technical strategy across teams and executives

Preferred Experience

• AI/ML infrastructure or large‑scale data platforms

• Familiarity with model training, inference, evaluation, or data pipeline infrastructure

• Experience with regulated cloud environments (FedRAMP, GovCloud, CMMC Level 2)

• Contributions to platform engineering, open‑source infrastructure, or developer productivity initiatives

Compensation & Benefits

• Pay range: $350,000–$500,000/year (national base salary range: $230,000–$260,000 USD)

• Equity compensation eligibility

• Performance‑based bonuses

• Comprehensive benefits package including:

  • Up to 100% reimbursement for health‑insurance premiums

  • Paid time off

  • 401(K) plan with company match

  • Additional benefits supporting a high‑performing, remote‑first workforce

Equal Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.