Head of Core Infra & Platform Engineering

Motive; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 229,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k plan

Paid time off

Disability insurance

Dental & vision

Job summary

Motive seeks a seasoned engineering leader to head Core Infrastructure and Operations Engineering. You will own the cloud platform, manage multi-team SRE/Operations/Data & AI Platform, and drive enterprise-grade reliability for mission-critical systems.

You’ll lead during critical moments and work with executives. Responsibilities include scaling the team, defining platform initiatives, and treating infrastructure as a product with clear roadmaps.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software/infrastructure engineering.
• 5+ years leading Infra/SRE/ops orgs and managing managers.
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Ability to collaborate cross functionally with ownership.
• Deep experience with AWS at scale (VPC, IAM, multi-account, core services, observability, cost optimization).
• High AI fluency – evaluate, integrate, and govern LLM/AI platforms for engineering and ops.
• Experience with databases and data platforms (OLTP and analytics).
• Proven record running high-reliability platforms with SLOs, incidents, postmortems.
• Clear communication skills and ability to manage escalations with CEO-level visibility.
• Track record of running infrastructure as a product (roadmaps, stakeholder comms, adoption).
• Nice to have: B2B SaaS or other high-reliability domains; leadership of global distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale a high-performing engineering team responsible for core platform systems used across the company.
• Define and drive multi-quarter platform initiatives that improve system reliability, and product leverage.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to evolve the platform as a product, balancing long-term architecture with near-term business needs.
• Take ambiguous, high-impact problem areas and turn them into clear execution plans.
• Drive alignment across multiple teams on complex, interdependent systems.
• Raise the bar on engineering quality and operational excellence.

Skills

Infra/SRE leadership

Cloud architecture

AWS at scale

AI platforms governance

Databases & data platforms

Reliability engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Infrastructure as a product

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Motive seeks a seasoned engineering leader to head Core Infrastructure and Operations Engineering. You will own the cloud platform, manage multi-team SRE/Operations/Data & AI Platform, and drive enterprise-grade reliability for mission-critical systems.

You’ll lead during critical moments and work with executives. Responsibilities include scaling the team, defining platform initiatives, and treating infrastructure as a product with clear roadmaps.