Cloud Infrastructure Engineering Lead – Production

Hayden AI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 223,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Hayden AI in San Francisco is seeking an Engineering Manager for Cloud (Production) Infrastructure to lead the team responsible for the platform’s reliability, roadmap, and cost. You’ll coordinate with product, edge/device, and security teams, set the operational bar, and scale a small senior team as our fleet and customer base grow.

This hybrid role requires 3+ days in-office per week in San Francisco, driving cloud-native standards and helping Hayden deliver safe, scalable, and cost-efficient

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience: 2+ years managing infrastructure/platform/SRE engineers, plus 6+ years hands-on in cloud infrastructure.
• Core Skills: Deep, hands-on experience building and operating cloud infrastructure with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps/ArgoCD, CI/CD, observability.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of infrastructure engineers; own hiring, performance, and career development.
• Be accountable for the reliability and day-to-day operation of the Hayden cloud platform. Set and monitor SLOs, maintain effective on-call coverage and observability, lead incident response and postmortems, and drive follow-up work to prevent recurring issues.
• Build and deliver the cloud infrastructure roadmap in partnership with product, edge/device, data, and security leadership.
• Drive infrastructure standards: Kubernetes, Terraform/IaC, GitOps (ArgoCD), CI/CD, device PKI and secure device-to-cloud communication.
• Be responsible for planning cloud cost, capacity planning, and vendor relationships; keep infrastructure audit-ready for SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Hands-on AWS

Observability

SRE

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps/ArgoCD

CI/CD

ArgoCD

Job description

Hayden AI in San Francisco is seeking an Engineering Manager for Cloud (Production) Infrastructure to lead the team responsible for the platform’s reliability, roadmap, and cost. You’ll coordinate with product, edge/device, and security teams, set the operational bar, and scale a small senior team as our fleet and customer base grow.

This hybrid role requires 3+ days in-office per week in San Francisco, driving cloud-native standards and helping Hayden deliver safe, scalable, and cost-efficient