Valon Tech - Head of Infrastructure
Responsibilities
• Define and communicate a multi-year infrastructure strategy spanning Cloud Infrastructure and Developer Infrastructure. • Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing organization, including engineering managers, senior technical leaders, and individual contributors. • Own the portfolio roadmap and investment decisions across Compute, Storage, data platforms, developer experience, CI/CD, test infrastructure, and observability. • Set company-wide standards for reliability, security, service ownership, incident management, developer productivity, and operational excellence. • Partner with executive and functional leaders to align infrastructure priorities with customer commitments, product strategy, and business goals. • Build the planning, review, and operating mechanisms that make progress visible and tradeoffs explicit. • Stay hands-on enough to guide architecture, challenge assumptions, and engage in the most important technical decisions and incidents. • Recruit exceptional talent, develop leaders, and create a culture of high agency, high accountability, direct feedback, and collaboration. • Represent infrastructure clearly to the broader company and make the organization a trusted partner to every engineering team. • IDEAL BACKGROUND • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years leading multiple teams, engineering managers, or a substantial infrastructure organization. • Experience owning a broad infrastructure portfolio that includes cloud platforms, compute, storage, databases, SRE, developer infrastructure, or related domains. • Strong technical depth in distributed systems and a track record of operating critical production systems at scale. • Experience setting strategy across both production infrastructure and developer experience, or the ability to credibly lead leaders in both areas. • Hands-on experience with cloud providers such as AWS or GCP, container orchestration, data stores, CI/CD, and observability. • Excellent organizational judgment: you can sequence foundational investments, make pragmatic tradeoffs, and connect technical work to business outcomes. • Demonstrated success hiring, developing, and retaining strong teams through periods of rapid growth and change. • Clear, concise communication and the ability to build alignment across engineering, product, security, data, and operations.
Benefits
• $275K – $325K • Offers Equity • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • Please leave blank if you were not referred. • I prefer not to answer • Another Gender Identity • Heterosexual / straight • Asian or Asian American • Black or African American • Hispanic or Latine • Indigenous or Native American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Person with disability • Refugee or immigrant • None of the above • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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