Staff Infrastructure Engineer (Production Optimization)

Maxinsights; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision care

Dental coverage

401(k)

Paid holidays

PTO

Sick leave

Job summary

Maxinsights is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to optimize end-to-end production workflows from a business perspective. You will identify bottlenecks, drive cross-team changes, and improve delivery efficiency.

You will work with product, data, research, and operations teams to implement practical, scalable infrastructure improvements and establish measurable gains in lead time and cost.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering and architecture fundamentals.
• Exceptional cross-team communication and leadership; build consensus without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Map the production workflow from business demand through data processing to delivery; identify delays and gaps.
• Prioritize improvements by impact, effort, and dependencies; align teams on outcomes and milestones.
• Lead changes across infrastructure, services, tooling, and practices with product, data, and operations teams.
• Establish baselines for delivery lead time, throughput, quality, and unit cost; turn gains into reusable capabilities.

Skills

Cross-team leadership

Communication

Product sense

Business judgment

Ambiguity navigation

Data workflow

Job description

Job Description:

Job Overview

We are looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to improve the end-to-end production workflow from a business perspective. You will identify the bottlenecks that slow delivery, increase cost, or hurt quality, and lead cross-team engineering changes to resolve them.

What You Will Own

• Map the production workflow from business demand through data processing to delivery; use operational data and frontline feedback to identify delays, rework, resource constraints, and gaps in ownership.

• Prioritize improvements by business impact, effort, and dependencies; align teams on outcomes, responsibilities, and delivery milestones.

• Lead changes across infrastructure, services, tooling, and working practices, partnering with product, data, research, and operations teams through implementation and adoption.

• Establish baselines for delivery lead time, throughput, quality, and unit cost; verify end-to-end gains and turn successful changes into reusable capabilities.

What We Look For

• Strong software engineering and architecture skills, with experience owning production systems and driving improvements across multiple services or teams.

• Exceptional cross-team communication and leadership: you can reconcile conflicting goals, clarify ownership, build consensus without direct authority, and keep joint work moving through completion.

• Strong product sense and business judgment: you understand how technical constraints affect delivery and can identify the problem worth solving first.

• Ability to navigate ambiguity, combine quantitative evidence with user feedback, and distinguish symptoms from root causes across technical and organizational boundaries.

• Hands-on ability to design and implement practical solutions, with clear technical taste and attention to adoption. Experience improving complex data production workflows or leading cross-team platform changes is a plus.

What We Would Like to See When You Apply

• We encourage a resume beyond a traditional career timeline. Describe a production workflow improvement you led: the business pain point, how you found the bottleneck, how you aligned teams, what changed, and the measurable outcome.

• Important: Your resume MUST include the exact word “Maxinsights”. Applications without it will be automatically filtered out by our internal agent.

Default Benefits:

• Health insurance

• Vision care

• Dental coverage

• 401(k)

• Paid holidays

• PTO (Paid Time Off)

• Sick leave