Platform Engineering Lead: Cloud Infra, DevEx & Scale

Traild; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote options

Global team

Exponential growth

World-class culture

Job summary

Traild is seeking a hands-on Platform Engineering Lead in the United States to shape the cloud infrastructure and developer platforms at the heart of our product portfolio. You will steer a small team, own GCP/AWS infrastructure, and drive platform initiatives across the organization.

You will define strategy, scale engineering talent, and champion IaC, CI/CD, observability, and FinOps while delivering reliable, cost-aware solutions at pace.

Qualifications

• Must have led a small engineering team and stayed hands-on.
• Deep production-scale cloud infrastructure experience (GCP/AWS).
• Able to define and defend platform direction and roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction and roadmap for Platform and present it to dependent teams.
• Own reliability, performance and cost of Traild’s GCP footprint, incl. networking, compute, storage and IaC.
• Improve developer experience: CI/CD pipelines, tooling, observability, and reducing friction for engineers.
• Remain hands-on as a working team member, not just a manager.
• Maintain high technical standards through reviews and exemplars.
• Grow and support a team of ~5 engineers, including hiring as needed.
• Own operational health and incident response for foundational services.

Skills

Cloud infra

IaC

CI/CD

Observability

FinOps

People mgmt

Stakeholder comms

Job description

Traild is seeking a hands-on Platform Engineering Lead in the United States to shape the cloud infrastructure and developer platforms at the heart of our product portfolio. You will steer a small team, own GCP/AWS infrastructure, and drive platform initiatives across the organization.

You will define strategy, scale engineering talent, and champion IaC, CI/CD, observability, and FinOps while delivering reliable, cost-aware solutions at pace.