Lead Infrastructure Engineer – Distributed Systems

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior infrastructure engineer to own cross-cutting backend, platform, and distributed systems supporting consumer, AI, and enterprise workloads. You will drive architecture decisions, reliability, and performance across compute, storage, and network layers, while collaborating with AI and security teams.

You will lead production operations, mentor engineers, and push for durable standards, tooling, and automation across teams to reduce incidents and improve

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend, platform, or distributed systems.
• Track record of owning complex production systems end to end and delivering sustained technical impact across teams.
• Ability to set technical direction, lead through influence, and raise the engineering bar through architecture, design reviews, and mentorship.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python or other systems or backend languages such as Go, Rust, C++, or Java.
• Meaningful experience across at least two infrastructure domains, such as cloud platforms, distributed systems, Kubernetes, storage, databases, networking, data systems, developer infrastructure, or production reliability.
• Ability to develop depth quickly in unfamiliar systems, reason across software and infrastructure layers, and drive production incidents from diagnosis through durable resolution.

Responsibilities

• Own cross-cutting infrastructure problems spanning compute, storage, networking, data, deployment, and reliability.
• Eliminate bottlenecks across retrieval and serving paths.
• Build shared abstractions across deployment environments.
• Resolve failure modes that cross platform boundaries.
• Design, build, and operate distributed infrastructure supporting consumer, AI, and enterprise workloads.
• Own systems from architecture through production operation.
• Identify platform gaps and build shared abstractions, automation, and tooling.
• Improve system performance, availability, scalability, and cost-efficiency across online traffic and background workloads.
• Debug complex production issues across service and infrastructure boundaries and turn findings into architectural improvements.
• Set technical direction for complex infrastructure systems.
• Lead high-impact programs across teams and establish durable technical standards.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, product, AI, and security partners.

Skills

Python

Distributed Systems

Cloud Platforms

Kubernetes

Technical Direction

Tools

Go

Rust

C++

Java

Data Systems

Networking

Storage

Developer Infrastructure

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a senior infrastructure engineer to own cross-cutting backend, platform, and distributed systems supporting consumer, AI, and enterprise workloads. You will drive architecture decisions, reliability, and performance across compute, storage, and network layers, while collaborating with AI and security teams.

You will lead production operations, mentor engineers, and push for durable standards, tooling, and automation across teams to reduce incidents and improve