Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure

Brex; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to four weeks of fully remote work

Hybrid work environment

Team autonomy and ownership culture

Job summary

Brex is seeking an Engineering Manager for Cloud Infrastructure in San Francisco. This hybrid role involves leading a senior team to enhance the AWS ecosystem supporting the company. Your main mission includes executing the critical Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery initiative.

Ideal candidates will have 3+ years of leadership experience, strong cloud infrastructure knowledge including AWS and Kubernetes, and strategic problem-solving abilities. The role promises competitive compensation, balancing remote work and in-office collaboration.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of managing software or infrastructure engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Postgres.
• Ability to design and implement complex infrastructure projects.
• Strong communication skills for influencing technical decisions.
• Capacity to tackle technical issues with strategic insight.
• 5+ years in software or systems engineering.

Responsibilities

• Manage a senior team fostering a culture of ownership and excellence.
• Oversee multi-year Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery initiative.
• Scale Brex’s core cloud infrastructure including Kubernetes and AWS.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to drive infrastructure adoption.
• Establish best practices for team efficiency and documentation.
• Allocate resources for project delivery and infrastructure stability.

Skills

Leadership Experience

Technical Depth

Architectural Insight

Collaborative Mindset

Analytical Problem Solving

Engineering Background

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Postgres

Terraform

Go

Kotlin

Python

Elixir

Job description

What you’ll do

As the Engineering Manager for Cloud Infrastructure, you will lead a highly competent team of senior engineers responsible for the foundational AWS ecosystem that powers Brex. Your primary near-term mission will be driving our high-priority Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) initiative to completion, a company-level priority that involves multi-region failover and infrastructure-wide resilience. You will balance people leadership with deep technical involvement, earning the respect of a senior team while improving operational hygiene and cross-functional coordination across the entire engineering organization.

Where you’ll work

This role will be based in our San Francisco office. We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and connections of being in the office with the benefits and flexibility of working from home. We currently require a minimum of three coordinated days in the office per week: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work!

Responsibilities

• Lead and Grow: Manage and support a senior team of 6 ICs, fostering a culture of high ownership, autonomy, and technical excellence.
• Drive BCDR Strategy: Oversee the execution of the multi-year BCDR initiative, ensuring multi-region infrastructure readiness and automated failover capabilities.
• Technical Stewardship: Maintain and scale Brex’s core cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes (EKS), RDS/Aurora/Postgres, networking (VPC), and AWS service integrations.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product and engineering teams across Brex to drive adoption of new infrastructure capabilities and ensure successful migrations.
• Operational Excellence: Improve team hygiene by establishing and improving best practices for work tracking (Linear), documentation, and incident response.
• Resource Management: Effectively allocate resources to balance critical project delivery with long-term infrastructure stability.

Requirements

• Leadership Experience: 3+ years of experience directly managing software or infrastructure engineering teams.
• Technical Depth: Deep hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure foundations, specifically AWS, Kubernetes, and Postgres.
• Architectural Insight: Proven ability to design and implement complex infrastructure projects such as multi-region deployments or disaster recovery frameworks.
• Collaborative Mindset: Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions across multiple autonomous teams.
• Analytical Problem Solving: Ability to dive deep into technical issues while maintaining a high-level strategic view of organizational goals.
• Engineering Background: 5+ years of experience in software or systems engineering.

Bonus points

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, specifically Terraform.
• Background in managing cloud infrastructure cost optimization programs.
• Experience with our tech stack components: Go, Kotlin, Python, or Elixir.
• Passion for leveraging AI and LLM-assisted workflows to increase engineering velocity.

Compensation

The expected salary range for this role is $240,000 - $300,000. However, the starting base pay will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.