Platform Engineering Lead - Infra & DevEx

Brisk Teaching; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Platform leadership experience

Security best practices

Job summary

Brisk Teaching is seeking a leader to own and grow Brisk's Platform team — the group responsible for the core infrastructure, shared services, and developer experience that everything else at Brisk is built on.

In a player-coach role, you will mentor engineers, drive the AWS-based infrastructure, and ensure reliability and security as Brisk scales. You will collaborate with product, design, and leadership from day one.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering with a focus on infrastructure.
• People management experience or track record as a tech lead/mentor.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and monitoring tools.
• Problem-solving mentality with ability to move between infra, backend, and product work.
• Excellent written and oral communication; proactive and autonomous.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap and technical direction for Brisk's platform, including core infrastructure and developer tooling.
• Mentor and grow a small platform/infrastructure engineering team.
• Stay hands-on: design, build, and maintain AWS-based infrastructure powering Brisk products.
• Drive reliability and scalability as user base grows.
• Lead observability, monitoring, incident response, and on-call practices.
• Partner with product engineers to keep development workflows smooth and production stable.
• Make architectural calls balancing rapid product development with long-term reliability and security.

Skills

Platform leadership

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Mentoring/People management

Communication

Job description

Brisk Teaching is seeking a leader to own and grow Brisk's Platform team — the group responsible for the core infrastructure, shared services, and developer experience that everything else at Brisk is built on.

In a player-coach role, you will mentor engineers, drive the AWS-based infrastructure, and ensure reliability and security as Brisk scales. You will collaborate with product, design, and leadership from day one.