Director of Engineering, Infrastructure
Core
Define and manage high-performance production infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, observability) to support R&D teams and enable rapid innovation.
Role type
Director of Engineering, Infrastructure (Platform/SRE)
Builds
Scalable, secure, and cost-effective production platform primitives and service contracts for R&D teams.
Domain
SaaS / E-commerce / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
SRE principles, SLO/SLI design, incident management, capacity planning, cloud services, container orchestration, service meshing, data storage, observability, security engineering, team leadership, org building, AI integration
Preferred skills
LiveSite experience, transforming internal platforms to productized services, data-centric/event-driven architecture, cost-to-serve optimization
Technologies
Public cloud, Kubernetes, Service Mesh, Observability stacks, AI tools
Responsibilities
Lead definition of platform primitives (compute, storage, networking); Create golden paths and decision trees for R&D; Drive reliability initiatives and capacity planning; Coordinate with product teams to eliminate bottlenecks; Establish cost-effective infrastructure frameworks; Mentor and scale high-performing teams; Collaborate on platform investments and strategic changes; Track and report performance metrics (reliability, productivity, cost); Optimize AI usage for infrastructure management; Champion operational readiness with SLAs/SLIs; Lead incident management and postmortems.
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC with management of managers