Platform Lead: Infra & DevOps for Scale & Delivery

Socket.dev; United States; On-site; USD 71,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

On-site gym access

Well-being app

Team events

Learning options and mentorship

Overseas workation

Job summary

Oxylabs is seeking a Senior Platform/DevOps Lead to guide our infra-focused platform team and drive dependable delivery. You will own engineering leadership, mentor engineers, manage capacity and dependencies, and align priorities with the Director of Infrastructure.

You will strengthen incident response, ownership, and escalation clarity while shaping our DevOps practices and tooling choices for scalable operations.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading an engineering team (hiring, coaching, performance, delivery ownership).
• Strong stakeholder management: can translate business needs into a clear plan and keep people aligned.
• Pragmatic, ownership-driven mindset: can make trade-offs, push standards, and improve reliability without slowing the team down.

Responsibilities

• Lead one of our existing Platform teams (infra/DevOps) and keep delivery consistent and predictable.
• Own people leadership - hire, mentor, and develop engineers while keeping the team healthy and performing.
• Manage capacity, risk, and dependencies: plan realistically, unblock the team quickly, and handle escalations early.
• Align scope and priorities with the Director of Infrastructure, keeping stakeholders aligned and avoiding churn.
• Strengthen predictable operations - make sure ownership, incident flow, and escalation paths are clear and well-practiced.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Stakeholder management

Ownership mindset

Tools

Ceph storage

Kafka

Job description

Oxylabs is seeking a Senior Platform/DevOps Lead to guide our infra-focused platform team and drive dependable delivery. You will own engineering leadership, mentor engineers, manage capacity and dependencies, and align priorities with the Director of Infrastructure.

You will strengthen incident response, ownership, and escalation clarity while shaping our DevOps practices and tooling choices for scalable operations.