Platform & Infrastructure Engineering Leader

Royper Royco LLC; United States; Remote; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Competitive salary and equity

Education budget

Top health insurance (US)

Job summary

Ashby is seeking an Engineering leader for Platform & Infrastructure to own the long-term vision and a 6-month roadmap. You will grow the team, hire managers, and align with Product Engineering to maintain high performance and reliability.

You’ll optimize monitoring, incident management, and vendor relationships while building scalable systems across the Americas and Europe. This role emphasizes leadership, deep technical knowledge of platforms, and excellent written communication.

Qualifications

• Led a company through high-growth periods with decisions under pressure.
• Designed interviews, interview loops, and hiring strategy.
• Collaborated with Product Eng, Product, Sales, or Support to drive company initiatives.
• Knowledge of platform/infrastructure tech, networking, and hardware implications.
• Excellent written communication with Infra 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, hire ICs and managers, and plan headcount.
• Foster a strong relationship with Product Engineering to enable fast, reliable delivery.
• Assess and improve monitoring and incident management processes; improve uptime measurement and incident coordination.
• Manage vendor relationships and pricing for hosting and observability tools (AWS, ClickHouse, Datadog, Braintrust).
• Have managed managers and plan to hire a manager within 6 months.
• If applicable, lead DevEx by forming a dedicated team or reporting into Product Eng.

Skills

Engineering Leadership

Hiring & Interviewing

Cross-functional Collaboration

Platform & Infra Technologies

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Ashby is seeking an Engineering leader for Platform & Infrastructure to own the long-term vision and a 6-month roadmap. You will grow the team, hire managers, and align with Product Engineering to maintain high performance and reliability.

You’ll optimize monitoring, incident management, and vendor relationships while building scalable systems across the Americas and Europe. This role emphasizes leadership, deep technical knowledge of platforms, and excellent written communication.