Infra Tech Lead — Scale, Reliability & Performance

Greylock Partners; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing tech company in San Francisco is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Tech Lead to enhance and scale its platform through rapid growth. You will be responsible for improving reliability and performance, optimizing database interactions, and defining the long-term infrastructure roadmap. Ideal candidates have 8–12+ years in infrastructure engineering, a strong coding background, and are comfortable in fast-paced environments. This role presents a unique chance to shape the company's infrastructure as it expands into larger enterprise use cases.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years of experience building and scaling infrastructure and production systems.
• Deep expertise in infrastructure-heavy engineering (SRE, reliability, performance, scaling).
• Strong hands-on coding ability with critical systems end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve the reliability and performance of the company’s infrastructure.
• Lead efforts to reduce database latency and optimize Postgres performance.
• Strengthen operational maturity across the stack.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

Postgres performance tuning

Incident response

Data scalability

Systems-level problem solving

Job description

A growing tech company in San Francisco is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Tech Lead to enhance and scale its platform through rapid growth. You will be responsible for improving reliability and performance, optimizing database interactions, and defining the long-term infrastructure roadmap. Ideal candidates have 8–12+ years in infrastructure engineering, a strong coding background, and are comfortable in fast-paced environments. This role presents a unique chance to shape the company's infrastructure as it expands into larger enterprise use cases.