Senior Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Leader

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

Job summary

PayJoy in San Francisco seeks a Senior Engineering Manager for Cloud Infrastructure to lead the team responsible for cloud platform, developer tools, and scalable services. You will set strategic direction and ensure reliable, secure, cost-efficient infrastructure that accelerates product engineering.

You will partner with Engineering, Security, Compliance, Finance, and Ops leaders to prioritize investments, drive incident resilience, and mentor a growing team of managers and ICs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of software engineering, infrastructure, platform engineering, or related technical experience.
• 4+ years of engineering management experience.
• Proven experience building, operating, and scaling highly available cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, or developer infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and modern cloud architecture patterns.
• Strong background in DevOps practices, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD systems, automation, and platform engineering.
• Experience designing reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure for production environments.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, networking, storage, security, observability, and operational excellence principles.
• Experience balancing technical debt, infrastructure investment, risk reduction, and feature delivery to maximize long-term business value.
• Demonstrated success leading organization-wide technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams and stakeholders.
• Strong incident management and operational leadership experience, including escalation management, post-incident reviews, and systemic reliability improvements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and business leaders and communicate tradeoffs clearly.
• Proven ability to recruit, coach, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering managers, staff engineers, and senior individual contributors.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the long-term strategy and architecture for cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, CI/CD systems, and shared engineering services that improve developer productivity and platform reliability.
• Drive delivery of large-scale infrastructure initiatives while balancing reliability, scalability, security, operational excellence, customer impact, and cost optimization.
• Establish engineering processes, operating rhythms, service ownership models, and technical standards that improve execution, software quality, incident response, and organizational efficiency.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, Compliance, Finance, and Executive leadership to prioritize investments, manage technical risk, and align infrastructure capabilities with business objectives.
• Foster a culture of accountability, inclusion, technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Cloud leadership

Incident management

Cross-team collaboration

Software architecture

Distributed systems

Observability

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Kubernetes

Monitoring/Observability tools

Job description

PayJoy in San Francisco seeks a Senior Engineering Manager for Cloud Infrastructure to lead the team responsible for cloud platform, developer tools, and scalable services. You will set strategic direction and ensure reliable, secure, cost-efficient infrastructure that accelerates product engineering.

You will partner with Engineering, Security, Compliance, Finance, and Ops leaders to prioritize investments, drive incident resilience, and mentor a growing team of managers and ICs.