Software Development Team Lead, Infrastructure Platform Team
Core
Lead the design, development, and operation of Spare's core cloud infrastructure platform powering on-demand transit systems.
Role type
Senior IC Infrastructure Platform Team Lead (50/50 hands-on technical contribution and people leadership)
Builds
Reliable, secure, cost-efficient cloud platform, distributed systems, tooling, automation, and platform services
Domain
Transportation industry + Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Distributed systems architecture, Cloud infrastructure (GCP), Container orchestration (Kubernetes), Database management (PostgreSQL, Redis), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), SRE practices, FinOps, AI-assisted development workflows, Team leadership, Mentoring
Preferred skills
Transit industry experience, Internal developer platform experience, AIOps experience, CI/CD at scale
Technologies
GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Redis, AI coding agents
Responsibilities
Architect and implement high-performance scalable distributed systems; Operate and maintain Redis and PostgreSQL databases; Drive improvements in cluster reliability and application resilience; Manage SRE on-call rotation and incident response; Drive FinOps practices for cloud cost optimization; Mentor software developers and uplift team capacity; Use AI agentic tooling to accelerate engineering output
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with people leadership
