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Engineering Manager, Infrastructure
$186K–$232K
New York, NY +4 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY
Boston, MA
San Francisco, CA
116 Huntington Ave., Back Bay, Boston, MA, 02116
16 E 34th St., New York City, NY, 10016 - Experience
- 7+ years total across hands-on infrastructure/SRE work and people management; 3+ years directly managing Site Reliability, Infrastructure, or DevOps engineers.
About the job
Leads the infrastructure and site reliability engineering team, setting technical direction and operating practices to provide secure, reliable systems and support fast software delivery, including AI-assisted and agent-authored development.
What you'll do
- Hire, coach, and manage infrastructure and SRE engineers, including performance, staffing, and team development.
- Set infrastructure and SRE roadmaps and oversee cloud services, IaC, container images, CI/CD, reliability, security, and developer experience.
- Own operational practices including support rotations, incident response, budgeting, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of combined hands-on infrastructure/SRE work and people management, including 3+ years directly managing Site Reliability, Infrastructure, or DevOps engineers.
- Experience managing workloads in AWS and Snowflake.
- Working knowledge of Docker, GitHub, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform/OpenTofu, and virtual networking.
- Experience coordinating technical projects and programs, including resource budgeting, estimates, tracking, and reporting.
Nice to have
- Experience with Azure, GCP, and/or Vercel.
- Experience supporting regulated or validated workloads; digital forensics is also a plus.
Pay
$185,500 - $232,000 (USD, total compensation)
Tools
AWS, Snowflake, Azure, GCP, Vercel, Docker, GitHub, Kubernetes
AI focus
Develop operational systems, access patterns, guardrails, delivery workflows, and observability for AI-assisted and agent-authored software; guide responsible AI use in infrastructure development, incident investigation, diagnostics, and operational improvement.
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