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The company will pay $250k-280k in salary plus equity which could be lucrative.\r\nResponsibilities\r\nLeading, mentoring, and growinga team of infrastructure and DevOps engineers focused on platform components based on Kubernetes.\r\nBalancing technical leadership with people management: conducting 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development planning.\r\nCollaborating cross-functionally with Product Growth teams, leadership, and Engineering teams to ensure alignment on foundation priorities in a dynamically-changing startup environment.\r\nOwning the design, implementation, and maintenance of cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure) and building for scale, resilience and security.\r\nEnsuring scalability, availability, and performance of systems across distributed, mission-critical environments for production, development and sandbox environments.\r\nDriving automation initiatives to eliminate toil and improve efficiency in infrastructure and developer workflows.\r\nOverseeing on-call operations, incident response, and root cause analysis, improving mean time to recovery (MTTR) and drive to key KPIs ( DORA or similar).\r\nManaging cloud costs and driving architectures to manage and maintain cloud costs.\r\nBuilding and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to accelerate development velocity while ensuring security and compliance.\r\nDeveloping and enforcing Infrastructure-as-Code practices (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Helm and Azure marketplace automation and deployments).\r\nDriving observability: logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing, and alerting best practices.\r\nUnderstanding security considerations in AWS, Azure, and GCP, and partnering with Security to harden infrastructure and implement compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO27001, HIPAA, etc.).\r\nDefining long-term infrastructure strategy for scalability and cost optimization.\r\nIntroducing and evaluating emerging technologies, tools, and methodologies to continuously improve infra systems.\r\nLeading large-scale migration projects (e.g., monolith to microservices, IaC, Kubernetes secure image production and networking architectures).\r\nQualifications\r\nAt least 10 years (preferably more) of experience in Enterprise level SaaS, Infrastructure, or DevOps roles, with at least 3 years (preferably more) leading technical teams in a hands on capacity.\r\nTrack record of managing infrastructure at scale (multi-region, high-traffic, high-availability systems).\r\nStrong hands-on expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Kubernetes, containerization, and orchestration with deep understanding on how they work technically.\r\nProficient in CI,Github actions, automation frameworks, and developer productivity tooling.\r\nStrong knowledge of distributed systems in production based on Kubernetes deployments.\r\nDeep experience in GCP, Azure or AWS.\r\nStrong technical expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g Terraform, Helm or similar) cloud services.\r\nStrong coding ability in Python, Go or similar.\r\nExpertise with monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, OpenTelemetry).\r\nUnderstanding of databases (SQL/NoSQL), caching systems, and data pipelines from an infra perspective.\r\nKnowledge of compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO, HIPAA, PCI).\r\nAbility to lead by example and remain hands-on while guiding a team.\r\nSkill in balancing business goals with technical excellence.\r\nSolid experience with JIRA and agile targeted towards infrastructure/foundation teams.\r\nExperience recruiting, hiring, and retaining world-class engineers.\r\nNice to Have\r\nExperience in startups or hyper-growth environments.\r\nExperience with confidential computing platforms.\r\nBackground in security and GenAI products, workflow related products and infrastructures supporting these products.\r\nContributions to open-source infra/devops projects.\r\nExperience with multi-cloud strategies or hybrid cloud environments including client side deployments.\r\nJ-18808-Ljbffr","company":"Skyrocket Ventures","rawCompany":"skyrocket ventures","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-04-09T09:10:38.344Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"11-3021.00","title":"Computer and Information Systems Managers","slug":"computer-and-information-systems-managers"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Software Engineering Manager - 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It involves AI infrastructure, data security/privacy, and confidential computing. The company has raised series B Funding, has 30 employees and 20 engineers, and is rapidly growing. The company will pay $250k-280k in salary plus equity which could be lucrative.\r\nResponsibilities\r\nLeading, mentoring, and growinga team of infrastructure and DevOps engineers focused on platform components based on Kubernetes.\r\nBalancing technical leadership with people management: conducting 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development planning.\r\nCollaborating cross-functionally with Product Growth teams, leadership, and Engineering teams to ensure alignment on foundation priorities in a dynamically-changing startup environment.\r\nOwning the design, implementation, and maintenance of cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure) and building for scale, resilience and security.\r\nEnsuring scalability, availability, and performance of systems across distributed, mission-critical environments for production, development and sandbox environments.\r\nDriving automation initiatives to eliminate toil and improve efficiency in infrastructure and developer workflows.\r\nOverseeing on-call operations, incident response, and root cause analysis, improving mean time to recovery (MTTR) and drive to key KPIs ( DORA or similar).\r\nManaging cloud costs and driving architectures to manage and maintain cloud costs.\r\nBuilding and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to accelerate development velocity while ensuring security and compliance.\r\nDeveloping and enforcing Infrastructure-as-Code practices (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Helm and Azure marketplace automation and deployments).\r\nDriving observability: logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing, and alerting best practices.\r\nUnderstanding security considerations in AWS, Azure, and GCP, and partnering with Security to harden infrastructure and implement compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO27001, HIPAA, etc.).\r\nDefining long-term infrastructure strategy for scalability and cost optimization.\r\nIntroducing and evaluating emerging technologies, tools, and methodologies to continuously improve infra systems.\r\nLeading large-scale migration projects (e.g., monolith to microservices, IaC, Kubernetes secure image production and networking architectures).\r\nQualifications\r\nAt least 10 years (preferably more) of experience in Enterprise level SaaS, Infrastructure, or DevOps roles, with at least 3 years (preferably more) leading technical teams in a hands on capacity.\r\nTrack record of managing infrastructure at scale (multi-region, high-traffic, high-availability systems).\r\nStrong hands-on expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Kubernetes, containerization, and orchestration with deep understanding on how they work technically.\r\nProficient in CI,Github actions, automation frameworks, and developer productivity tooling.\r\nStrong knowledge of distributed systems in production based on Kubernetes deployments.\r\nDeep experience in GCP, Azure or AWS.\r\nStrong technical expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g Terraform, Helm or similar) cloud services.\r\nStrong coding ability in Python, Go or similar.\r\nExpertise with monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, OpenTelemetry).\r\nUnderstanding of databases (SQL/NoSQL), caching systems, and data pipelines from an infra perspective.\r\nKnowledge of compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO, HIPAA, PCI).\r\nAbility to lead by example and remain hands-on while guiding a team.\r\nSkill in balancing business goals with technical excellence.\r\nSolid experience with JIRA and agile targeted towards infrastructure/foundation teams.\r\nExperience recruiting, hiring, and retaining world-class engineers.\r\nNice to Have\r\nExperience in startups or hyper-growth environments.\r\nExperience with confidential computing platforms.\r\nBackground in security and GenAI products, workflow related products and infrastructures supporting these products.\r\nContributions to open-source infra/devops projects.\r\nExperience with multi-cloud strategies or hybrid cloud environments including client side deployments.\r\nJ-18808-Ljbffr","datePosted":"2026-04-09T09:10:38.344Z","dateModified":"2026-04-09T09:10:38.344Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Skyrocket Ventures","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Millbrae","addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"fb37651271b1e94a7c267831"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/fb37651271b1e94a7c267831"}}