Director of Engineering, Infrastructure

Carta; Waterloo; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Director of Engineering, where you will lead a team in developing scalable and secure infrastructure solutions that drive business growth. You will mentor engineers, oversee the cloud infrastructure, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the highest standards of security and reliability. This role offers the opportunity to shape the technical direction of the organization, empowering your team to deliver impactful projects while fostering a culture of excellence and innovation. If you are passionate about leading diverse teams and solving complex technical challenges, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading and mentoring geographically distributed teams.
• Strong understanding of cloud security best practices and data security.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers while ensuring technical excellence.
• Own the security and reliability of cloud infrastructure and manage projects.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud Computing

Software Engineering

Mentoring

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Empathy

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Python

Java

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Postgres

AWS

Job description

Carta develops purpose-built software that transforms traditional accounting into a powerful growth engine.

Carta’s world-class fund administration platform supports nearly 7,000 funds and SPVs, and represents nearly $130B in assets under management in venture capital and private equity.

Trusted by more than 40,000 companies, Carta also helps private businesses in over 160 countries manage their cap tables, valuations, taxes, equity programs, compensation, and more.

Together, Carta is setting a new standard as the end-to-end platform for private markets. Our best-in-class solution for fund management seamlessly integrates investor and portfolio company insights via a suite of tools designed ground-up to support the strategic impact of the fund CFO.

The Infrastructure Engineering team is responsible for providing secure, reliable, scalable and performant Infrastructure to Carta’s customers and developers.

We are Software, Infrastructure and Security Engineers who specialize in cloud computing, networking, systems design and architecture, storage, real time data telemetry, associated automation, tooling and processes. We possess a breadth and depth of knowledge about Carta’s infrastructure and industry wide best practices, that translates into leverage for Carta’s business.

The Problems You’ll Solve

We welcome leaders who can lead diverse, thoughtful, and driven engineers while balancing technical direction, collaboration and people development.

As a Director of Engineering, here are some of the exciting problems you’ll solve:

• Lead: Mentor, grow, and empower your team.
• Own: Be responsible for the security, availability, scalability and reliability of Carta's cloud infrastructure.
• Partner: Partner with peer organizations throughout the company to ensure that their infrastructure needs are met. Platform-as-a-Service experience is a critical component of this role.
• Deliver: Build a culture of execution excellence. Define metrics, tools, and practices to ensure the team is delivering significant business impact.
• Handle performance: Provide (and seek) regular feedback from your teams.
• Technical direction: Directionally align the design and technology choices with overall engineering strategy. Align initiatives with the top business goals at Carta.
• Hiring: Bring the best talent to help build and grow Carta’s infrastructure posture.

About You

You will act as a technical leader on all things related to the team’s domain architecture to help and empower engineers in making technical decisions. You will work closely with other Platform Infrastructure and Product teams to build, secure and scale their services.

You are excited by the idea of developing scalable, secure, reliable and efficient infrastructure that powers the entire company. Our stack is Python, Java, Terraform, gRPC, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres, running on AWS. Come join us!

Here is what we are looking for:

• Experience in successfully delivering large scale projects that include technical deep-dives and solving production issues in all or some of these areas: compute, networking, communications, storage, operating systems, and software engineering.
• A consistent track record of leading, managing, coaching, and mentoring geographically distributed teams.
• Experience writing production quality code in a major programming language, such as Python, Java, Go.
• Ability to empower teams and resolve disagreements with empathy and clarity.
• Experience in building services and have successfully taken projects from inception to production.
• Deep understanding of Linux, AWS, Docker and Kubernetes. Experience with service mesh architecture is a big plus.
• Endorsement of infrastructure as a code and passion for software development and automation. Experience managing infrastructure cost is a big plus.
• A strong perspective on positive customer and developer experience.
• Production experience with building infrastructure on public cloud technologies and leading incident management at scale.
• Strong understanding of cloud security best practices, data security and vulnerability management.

Disclosures:

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to providing a positive interview experience for every candidate. If accommodations due to a disability or medical condition are needed, please connect with the talent partner via email.

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