Cloud Infrastructure Engineering Manager — Hybrid (SF)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage for U

FSA and DCFSA

401(k) with 3% company matching

Unlimited PTO

Daily catered lunches in SF office

Equity

Bonus

Job summary

Hayden AI is seeking its first Engineering Manager for Cloud (Production) Infrastructure to lead the team responsible for reliability, roadmap, costs, and the engineers who build it. You will be a hands-on leader coordinating across product, device, and security teams, setting the operational bar, and growing a small, senior team as scale increases.

The role is based in San Francisco with a hybrid schedule (at least 3 days in-office per week).

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.
• Experience running production systems with real uptime and on-call obligations.
• 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 on-call coverage and observability, lead incident response and postmortems.
• Build and deliver the cloud infrastructure roadmap with product, edge/device, data, and security leads.
• Drive infrastructure standards: Kubernetes, Terraform/IaC, GitOps (ArgoCD), CI/CD, device PKI and secure device-to-cloud communication.
• Plan cloud cost, capacity planning, and vendor relationships; keep audit-ready for SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.

Skills

Cloud infra management

Observability

On-call experience

Leadership coaching

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in CS or related field

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps/ArgoCD

CI/CD

Observability tools

Job description

Hayden AI is seeking its first Engineering Manager for Cloud (Production) Infrastructure to lead the team responsible for reliability, roadmap, costs, and the engineers who build it. You will be a hands-on leader coordinating across product, device, and security teams, setting the operational bar, and growing a small, senior team as scale increases.

The role is based in San Francisco with a hybrid schedule (at least 3 days in-office per week).