• Define and execute our infrastructure roadmap across our multi-tenant and single-tenant stacks
• Establish engineering standards, practices, and tooling across the infrastructure team
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to align infrastructure investments with business objectives
• Lead deep database performance optimization and scaling strategies
• Lead infrastructure cost optimization and capacity planning initiatives

Technical Ownership

• Architect and implement scalable solutions on our AWS/Kubernetes/PostgreSQL/Redis stack
• Design container orchestration strategies with Kubernetes patterns and resource optimization
• Design and build robust CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies
• Drive reliability engineering practices including monitoring, alerting, and incident response
• Evaluate and integrate new technologies that enhance our platform capabilities

Team Development

• Mentor engineers and help grow their technical skills
• Participate in hiring and building out the infrastructure team
• Foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
• Lead technical design reviews and architecture discussions

About You

Technical Expertise

• 7+ years of infrastructure engineering experience with 3+ years in technical leadership roles
• Deep expertise with AWS services (EC2, RDS, EKS, networking, security)
• Production experience with Kubernetes orchestration and container management
• Experience with database performance engineering - query optimization, execution plan analysis, and datastore selection for different workload patterns
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
• Solid understanding of application deployment and scaling
• Knowledge of security best practices and compliance frameworks

Leadership Qualities

• Track record of leading technical initiatives in fast-growing companies
• Strong opinions on engineering best practices with the flexibility to adapt
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence across organizations
• Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid decision-making in a startup environment

Startup Experience

• Understanding of the unique challenges of scaling infrastructure during hypergrowth
• Ability to balance technical debt with feature velocity
• Experience with resource constraints and scrappy problem-solving

Bonus Points

• Advanced Kubernetes operators development and custom resource definitions
• Linux kernel development or systems programming experience
• Background with observability tools (Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus/Grafana)
• Contributions to open source infrastructure projects
• Experience with multi-region deployments and disaster recovery planning

Our stack

Our product is a web-based notebook and app authoring platform. Our frontend is built with Typescript and React, using a combination of Apollo GraphQL and Redux for managing application state and data. On the backend, we also use Typescript to power an Express/Apollo GraphQL server that interacts with Postgres, Redis, and Kubernetes to manage our database and Python kernels. Our backend is tightly integrated with our infrastructure and CI/CD, where we use a combination of Terraform, Helm, and AWS to deploy and maintain our stack.