Work across teams (IT, SRE, Security, Service Owners) to unify solutions.

Influence technical decisions through design reviews and collaboration

Ensure systems integrate cleanly across infrastructures (office, DC, cloud)

Reliability, Operations & Scaling

Improve system reliability through monitoring, alerting, and operational design

Contribute to defining SLIs/SLOs and capacity planning within the domain

Participate in and lead root cause analysis for complex incidents

Decrease operational toil through automation and system improvements

Infrastructure & Networking Depth

Design and support core infrastructure components (compute, DNS, networking, identity, etc.)

Drive improvements in performance, scalability, and dependability

Contribute deep expertise in at least one area (e.g., DNS, network architecture, cloud infra)

Automation & Tooling

Build and improve automation using scripting and Infrastructure as Code

Contribute to internal tooling and platform improvements

Promote repeatable, standardized approaches to system management

Mentorship & Technical Guidance

Mentor engineers and guide system design and troubleshooting

Raise the technical quality of the team through reviews and shared practices

Act as a go-to resource within the domain

Documentation & Operational Clarity

Maintain clear documentation, diagrams, and runbooks for systems owned

Ensure systems are understandable and operable by others

Contribute to knowledge sharing across teams

What you’ll bring:

6+ years of experience in systems engineering or infrastructure roles

Strong experience designing and operating production infrastructure

Solid expertise in:

VMware

Cisco UCS

Application/Network Loadbalancers

Linux/Unix Operating Systems

Networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, routing, firewalls)

Data center environments

Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical work across teams

Preferred Skills

Experience with Infrastructure as Code

Puppet/Ansible/etc

Python

Familiarity with observability tooling and reliability practices

Experience with containerization and modern platform tooling

Exposure to security best practices in infrastructure design

Key Competencies

Multi-Team Impact: Demonstrate influence and contributions that extend beyond your immediate team. Consistently participate in initiatives that affect infrastructure within your broader domain, and provide support or guidance across multiple teams when necessary.

Technical Ownership (Scoped): Take responsibility for systems or architecture within a clearly defined area of the infrastructure. Oversee the health, evolution, and quality of these systems, ensuring alignment with organizational standards.

Execution Amid Ambiguity: delivers on loosely defined problems with high impact

Influence Without Authority: drives alignment through credibility and alliance

Balance of Depth + Breadth: deep in one area, competent across adjacent systems

Hands-On Leadership: actively contributes to implementation, not just design

Bonus Skills/Competencies

GitHub Enterprise Administration

User Access Management

GH Org / Repo Management

SSO / SCIM Integration

Policy Enforcement

What you’ll get:

Generous performance-based bonus plans for all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team

Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage

Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)

Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together

Country-specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday

One-time home office stipend

Annual professional development budget

Quarterly well-being stipend

Considerable paid parental leave

Employee referral bonus

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