Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Overview The Lead Infrastructure Engineer on the Mission Control team plays a critical role in setting technical direction and building, operating, and evolving the cloud infrastructure that supports reliable, secure, and scalable product delivery. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for turning platform needs, application requirements, and operational constraints into automated infrastructure, developer workflows, and team execution plans. Working across cloud infrastructure, DevOps, production operations, and engineering leadership, this role partners closely with Engineering, Product, Security, Data, and domain Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to ensure teams can ship quickly without compromising reliability, security, or compliance. This role leads the development and evolution of core systems, spanning cloud environments, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containerized workloads, observability, secrets management, networking, data infrastructure, and deployment automation within a regulated, high-stakes environment. Success requires strong systems thinking, pragmatic engineering judgment, and the ability to guide a small, elite team through ambiguity. The Lead Infrastructure Engineer is expected to operate in an AI-native engineering environment, using modern coding agents, automation tools, and rapid prototyping workflows to improve delivery speed and infrastructure quality. In parallel, this individual will help create the foundation for AI-enabled product capabilities by ensuring the underlying systems are dependable, observable, secure, cost-aware, and easy to use. This is a fully remote position that offers a competitive salary range of $220,000 to $300,000, plus an annual bonus. You'll also receive our excellent benefits package, which includes medical coverage starting on day one and a company-matched 401(k). Compensation may vary based on experience, location, and other job-related factors. Responsibilities Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering Lead the design, build, and operation of cloud infrastructure across major platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure with a focus on reliability, scalability, security, and cost discipline Establish reusable infrastructure patterns and technical standards that help product teams provision, deploy, and operate services consistently Own high-impact infrastructure initiatives from strategy and design through hands-on implementation, production rollout, monitoring, and iteration Infrastructure as Code & Automation Lead and contribute hands-on to infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, Bicep, CloudFormation, or similar frameworks Automate repeatable operational workflows, environment provisioning, configuration management, deployment tasks, and team operating routines Raise infrastructure quality through clear modules, versioning, documentation, testing, code review, and pragmatic standards DevOps & Developer Experience Partner with Engineering teams and technical leaders to improve CI/CD pipelines, release workflows, build systems, and deployment safety Reduce friction for developers by guiding the creation of self-service tools, templates, runbooks, and paved-path workflows Set pragmatic guardrails that balance speed and control so teams can move quickly while maintaining strong production and change-management practices Reliability, Observability & Production Operations Lead production operations confidently, including deployments, incident response, troubleshooting, escalation management, and post-incident follow-up Define and improve observability across logs, metrics, traces, alerts, dashboards, service health indicators, and operational reviews Drive architecture and operational decisions that improve uptime, performance, resilience, maintainability, and team effectiveness Anticipate and address reliability risks before they become customer-impacting issues, and coach others to build the same operational judgment Security, Compliance & Cost Discipline Establish secure infrastructure patterns, access controls, secrets management, and least-privilege practices across services and environments Support compliance-aware engineering practices appropriate for a regulated fintech environment and help teams apply them pragmatically Monitor infrastructure utilization and cost, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency without reducing reliability or delivery velocity Leadership, Mentorship & Craft Mentor and manage a lean, elite team of infrastructure engineers through clear goals,