Platform & Infrastructure Engineering Lead

Genius AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

In-office lunch NYC and SF

Wellhub access

Professional development stipend

Annual $5k bonus for high performers

401k

Dependent Care FSA

Paid parental leave

Fertility and adoption benefits

Job summary

Genius AI is seeking a senior leader to own the Compute, Data, and DevEx platforms. You will set reliability standards, manage vendor spend, and build a self-service platform enabling engineers to ship with efficiency.

You will report to the VP of Engineering and work in-office in San Francisco, with 3-4 days per week on-site. Expect collaboration across infra, data, and product teams to drive scalable, reliable systems.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience with at least 4 years leading engineering teams at a high-growth tech company.
• Ability to design systems that absorb AI-enabled workflows and reduce manual toil, with measurable impact.
• Proven track record of driving reliability, scalable platforms, and cost management across cloud regions.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical roadmap for infrastructure and data platform, scaling to higher traffic while maintaining 99.95% uptime and managing cloud spend across AWS regions.
• Shape agentic production operations and build AI enablement layers to delegate routine tasks to agents.
• Define reliability engineering practices with SLIs/SLOs, incident response, and post-mortems.
• Raise developer experience via CI/CD standardization and self-service tooling for IaC without heavy platform involvement.
• Drive incident command during outages and implement systemic fixes.
• Own vendor strategy and budgets, negotiating contracts and migrating to better vendors when justified.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

Platform engineering

Team leadership

AI enablement

Decision making under uncertainty

Engineer coaching

Scale distributed systems

Business acumen

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

ArgoCD

Observability tooling

Job description

Genius AI is seeking a senior leader to own the Compute, Data, and DevEx platforms. You will set reliability standards, manage vendor spend, and build a self-service platform enabling engineers to ship with efficiency.

You will report to the VP of Engineering and work in-office in San Francisco, with 3-4 days per week on-site. Expect collaboration across infra, data, and product teams to drive scalable, reliable systems.