San FranciscoFull TimeEngineering
Remotely
data infrastructureobservabilitydeveloper productivitynetworkingstoragereliabilityincidentscompute infrastructure
Job Description
📋 Description
- Lead and grow Kikoff's infrastructure team across five areas: Observability, Developer
- Set technical direction and run infrastructure as a product for engineers.
- Review code and designs, make architecture calls, unblock the team when needed.
- Own allocation of work, build sustainable on-call models, and provide clear ownership and growth
- Lead through incidents and improve systems to prevent recurrence.
- Tune tradeoffs between speed, reliability, and cost as the company scales.
🎯 Requirements
- 8+ years of engineering experience and 2+ years managing engineers or equivalent leadership track
- Strong infrastructure foundation; able to review code/designs and contribute directly when needed.
- Experience operating production systems, handling incidents, and postmortem improvements.
- Track record of hiring, coaching, and developing engineers; can define what good looks like.
- Experience setting technical direction and turning ambiguous problems into actionable roadmaps.
- Comfort making decisions with incomplete information and communicating clearly with engineers and
🎁 Benefits
- Base Range: 307000-352000 USD
- Scrappy, risk-oriented, data-obsessed, humble culture
- Equal opportunity employer; commitment to inclusive hiring