Tech Lead, Infra (Infra Core)

Deel; Palermo; In loco; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Flexible working office membership

Total rewards programs

Competitive pay aligned with market

Disability accommodations

Descrizione del lavoro

Deel is seeking an Infrastructure Tech Lead to shape the core platform used by hundreds of engineers daily. You’ll guide technical direction, design scalable infrastructure, and remain hands-on with architecture and code to enable rapid, global service provisioning and secure operations.

You’ll lead incident response, automate provisioning, drive edge routing, and evolve the observability stack, collaborating with DevOps, DBAs, InfoSec, and product engineering to align on goals.

Competenze

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 5+ years focused on infrastructure (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps).
• 2+ years as a technical lead with distributed, cross-timezone teams.

Mansioni

• Shape roadmap and act as technical lead for infrastructure.
• Design scalable, secure, observable systems across global deployments.
• Lead incident response and automate toil reductions.
• Automate service provisioning, databases, and environment registrations.

Conoscenze

Infrastructure leadership

Distributed systems

Communication

Incident response

Observability

Cross-functional collaboration

Strumenti

Kubernetes

AWS/GCP

Helm

GitOps

PostgreSQL/MySQL

OpenTelemetry

Kafka

NATS

Descrizione del lavoro

As Infrastructure Tech Lead at Deel, you shape the core platform that hundreds of engineers rely on daily. You’ll guide the technical direction, design scalable infrastructure, and stay hands-on with architecture and code. Your work enables rapid, global service provisioning, secure operations, and observable systems at scale. You’ll join a high-velocity, engineering-led team that values execution and cross-functional collaboration. This role offers the chance to influence how we build and operate the platform behind Deel’s global workforce.

• Flexible working office membership
• Total rewards programs
• Competitive pay aligned with market
• Disability accommodations
• Design and implement infrastructure patterns and primitives on Kubernetes to support a growing microservices ecosystem
• Shape roadmap and act as technical lead, balancing architecture, delivery, and developer experience
• Lead incident response, automate toil, and reduce noise with engineering solutions
• Automate service provisioning, database setups, and environment registrations for rapid deployments
• Drive edge routing, traffic management, and migrations of large-scale backend workloads
• Oversee secrets management and security posture, including zero-downtime rotations
• Evolve the observability stack with OpenTelemetry and scalable logging
• Develop real-time platform capabilities (e.g., WebSocket workloads) and agentic infrastructure
• Collaborate with DevOps, DBA, InfoSec, and product engineering to align on goals
• Represent infra domain in architectural discussions and resolve multi-team challenges
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 5+ years focused on infrastructure (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps, CNCF landscape)
• 2+ years as a technical lead with distributed, cross-timezone teams
• Experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures (Kafka, NATS)
• Kubernetes architecture and operational experience (operators/controllers, platform primitives)
• Relational databases experience (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and scaling within platforms
• Proven delivery track record from inception to shipping
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Bias for action and decision documentation
• Strong communication
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)
• Helm and GitOps
• CNCF technologies