8+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering, with 4+ years in leadership roles at high-growth tech companies.
Experience implementing AI solutions that transformed team operations, with clear examples of impact.
Ability to make informed decisions and set technical direction with limited information.
Proven experience managing managers or tech leads and scaling teams without compromising performance or culture.
Hands-on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, and modern observability tools, with debugging skills in complex systems.
Strong business acumen, viewing cloud spend and developer velocity as key business enablers rather than costs.
Demonstrated success in developing engineers and tracking their career advancements.
Responsibilities
Own the technical roadmap for infrastructure and data platforms, ensuring scalability and uptime targets.
Shape production operations by building an AI enablement layer for engineers to delegate routine tasks.
Define and implement reliability engineering practices, including SLI and SLO frameworks.
Enhance developer experience through CI platform standardization and self-service tooling.
Lead incident command during outages, ensuring systemic fixes rather than temporary solutions.
Manage vendor strategy and infrastructure budget, negotiating contracts and leading migrations as needed.
Benefits
Competitive health and dental insurance effective on the first day of employment.
Flexible PTO policy.
In-office lunch twice a week for NYC and SF employees, plus late-night dinner stipends.
Access to Wellhub for discounted gym memberships, fitness classes, and mental health resources.
Annual stipend for professional development and continued learning.
High performers receive a $5,000 bonus after 5 years for personal recharge.
401k benefit available from day one of employment.
Dependent Care FSA and paid parental leave offered.
Fertility and adoption benefits through Carrot and Kindbody.
Full Job Description
About the Role
You will lead our Compute, Data, and DevEx teams - everything Genius AI ships is powered by what this role owns. You will set the reliability bar, own vendor spend, and build the self-service platform that lets product engineers ship. You will define what the platform becomes and grow/evolve the team who builds it.
You will report to the VP of Engineering. You must be commutable to our San Francisco office and will operate in an in-person environment, as we default to being in-office 3-4 days per week.
What You'll Do
Own the technical roadmap for infrastructure and the data platform, defining how we scale from today's footprint to supporting an order of magnitude more traffic while holding a 99.95% uptime target and keeping cloud spend under control across multiple AWS regions
Continue to shape agentic production operations as the default, building the AI enablement layer that lets engineers delegate routine operational work to agents and reserve their own judgment for novel tasks
Define the reliability engineering practice with product engineering, standing up SLI and SLO frameworks, managing incident response, and post-mortems
Raise developer experience across the org through CI platform standardization and self-service tooling that enables teams to manage their own infrastructure as code without a platform engineer in the loop
Drive incident command during critical outages, then convert every one into a systemic fix instead of a follow-up ticket that ages out
Own vendor strategy and infrastructure budget, negotiating enterprise contracts and leading migrations to new vendors when the cost or capability case is clear
What We're Looking For
8+ years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience, with at least 4 years managing or leading engineering teams at a high-growth technology company
Fundamentally changed how your team operates because of AI, and you can name the system you designed, the work it absorbed, and what your engineers stopped doing as a result
Make decisions and move: you set a technical direction with incomplete information, ship something, and adjust based on what the data tells you
Managed managers or tech leads before, and scaled a team through a period of real growth without letting the performance bar or the culture slip
Deep hands-on expertise across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, and modern observability tooling, with the ability to debug a complex distributed system yourself when it matters
Strong business acumen: you treat cloud spend, developer velocity, and reliability as part of enablement and not a cost center. We believe this function to be directly connected business levers rather than separate engineering metrics
Track record of developing engineers, and you can point to specifically what they went on to do
Benefits & Perks
Competitive health & dental insurance options, effective on your first day of employment
Flexible PTO
In-office lunch twice per week for NYC and SF employees, plus late night dinner stipends
Access to Wellhub, a corporate wellness platform with discounted gym memberships, fitness classes, and mental health resources
Annual stipend for professional development and continued learning
High performers at 5 years receive a $5,000 bonus to use however you recharge best
401k benefit: employees are eligible to contribute starting day 1 of employment
Dependent Care FSA
Paid parental leave
Fertility and adoption benefits via Carrot and Kindbody
