Head of Engineering, Foundations
On-siteNew York City, New York, United States or San Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Hire, coach, and grow a small team of high-performing engineers, developing staff and principal engineers who carry technical standards across the organization. Build the foundational platform supporting the entire engineering org, including developer platforms, deployment pipelines, observability, and tooling. Automate infrastructure as code on Kubernetes and AWS using Pulumi, cdk8s, and ArgoCD to manage systems that move real money. Establish engineering standards for reliability, operability, and architectural coherence while sequencing quality work to enable rapid shipping. Lead by writing clean, well-tested code and designing end-to-end systems, leveraging senior engineers to improve other teams. Set the standard for what good infrastructure looks like, focusing on developer experience as a product.
Required Qualifications
- 12+ years in engineering
- 5+ years leading teams
- Experience writing clean, well-tested code
- Experience designing and shipping systems end to end
- Experience developing staff and principal ICs
- Experience operating consequential infrastructure
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with AWS
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code
- Experience designing infrastructure for the engineers using it
- Experience setting engineering standards for reliability, operability, and architectural coherence
- Experience setting standards for quality work to keep teams shipping quickly
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Pulumi
- Experience with cdk8s
- Experience with ArgoCD
- Experience with sandboxing
- Experience with audit trails
- Experience with rollback against systems that move real money
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