Platform & Infra Engineering Leader for Scale & Reliability

The Wrap; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Ashby seeks an experienced Engineering leader for Platform & Infrastructure to drive performance, reliability, and scale. You will report to the CTO and build a high-impact team spanning the Americas West Coast to Europe, aligning with Product Engineering for fast, reliable delivery.

You’ll define a 6‑month roadmap, hire leaders, and optimize monitoring, incident response, and vendor pricing. This role requires strong communication and senior engineering leadership experience to guide complex

Qualifications

• You’ve led at a company through high growth, guiding architecture and people decisions under pressure.
• You have built hiring processes and led interview loops and hiring strategy.
• You collaborate across Product Engineering, Product, Sales or Support to drive initiatives.
• You are knowledgeable about platform and infrastructure technologies, networking, and hardware.
• You communicate clearly in writing with Infrastructure Engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a long-term vision and 6-month roadmap for Platform & Infrastructure.
• Grow the Platform & Infrastructure team, including headcount planning and hiring managers.
• Shape relationships with Product Engineering to enable rapid, reliable product delivery.
• Assess and improve monitoring and incident management, including uptime measurement and incident coordination.
• Maintain vendor relationships and negotiate pricing for hosting and observability tools (AWS, ClickHouse, Datadog, Braintrust).

Skills

Platform leadership

Hiring & coaching

Cross-functional

Incident management

Written communication

Tools

AWS

Datadog

ClickHouse

Job description

Ashby seeks an experienced Engineering leader for Platform & Infrastructure to drive performance, reliability, and scale. You will report to the CTO and build a high-impact team spanning the Americas West Coast to Europe, aligning with Product Engineering for fast, reliable delivery.

You’ll define a 6‑month roadmap, hire leaders, and optimize monitoring, incident response, and vendor pricing. This role requires strong communication and senior engineering leadership experience to guide complex