Head of Infrastructure
Location: Hybrid (Austin, TX / East Bay, CA / New York, NY / San Francisco, CA)
Salary: Up to $240,000 + Equity
Industry: Fintech / Identity / Infrastructure
What You’ll Drive
Lead and grow a high-performing infrastructure engineering team that designs, scales, and operates critical infrastructure spanning commercial and FedRAMP environments. Own core foundational services such as Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and data infrastructure to ensure reliability, security, and compliance.
What You’ll Focus On
- Define and execute the technical roadmap for infrastructure aligning with product and regulatory requirements
- Manage and optimize AWS, Kubernetes, Aurora PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, and related core services
- Drive cost management, strategic vendor partnerships, and operational standards for observability and incident response
- Collaborate with InfoSec to ensure FedRAMP, SOC 2, and PCI compliance
- Mentor and expand a talented team of infrastructure engineers
- Partner with Engineering, Data Science, and Product teams to enable fast, secure software delivery
Who You Are
- 10+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering, with deep AWS and Kubernetes expertise
- 3–5 years managing infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE teams
- Strong experience operating production systems on AWS, Terraform, and observability platforms like Datadog or Prometheus
- Hands-on with relational databases (Postgres/Aurora) and scripting in Python or Go
- Knowledge of compliance frameworks FedRAMP, PCI, and SOC 2
- Excellent communicator able to thrive in a fast-growing, dynamic environment
Tech Stack
Python, Aurora PostgreSQL, AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Redshift), Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, Datadog, Prometheus, SumoLogic, OpenSearch, Linux
Why You’ll Thrive Here
- Backed by $84M in funding and profitable with a strong early Series B-stage growth trajectory
- Trusted by top 20 banks and featured on Forbes Fintech 50 since 2023
- Join a remote-first, high-growth company with collaborative leadership across multiple US hubs
- Significant equity upside with a focus on operational excellence and scalability
- Hybrid flexibility designed to foster leadership collaboration across Austin, Bay Area, and New York
Candidates must be legally authorized to work and reside in the US. Visa sponsorship is not available.
