Otter.ai
Engineering Director, Infrastructure
$244K–$313K
Mountain View, CA · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of software development or engineering experience, including 4+ years of engineering management experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field.
About the job
Leads Otter.ai’s infrastructure organization and strategy, operating reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient systems that support its products and AI workloads.
What you'll do
- Own cloud, compute, networking, database, production, and AI inference infrastructure; set roadmaps, capacity plans, and investment priorities.
- Improve reliability, security, observability, incident response, disaster recovery, developer velocity, and infrastructure cost efficiency.
- Recruit and lead infrastructure teams, partnering with Product, Engineering, AI/ML, Security, and Finance.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of software development or engineering experience, including 4+ years of engineering management experience.
- Significant experience leading infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform teams responsible for production systems at scale.
- Experience operating highly available distributed systems, production reliability practices, and latency-sensitive, high-throughput AI inference workloads.
Nice to have
- GPU inference optimization experience.
- Familiarity with Python, Django, FastAPI, and WebSockets.
Pay
$244,000 to $313,000 USD per year (base salary)
Tools
AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, EC2, Terraform, MySQL, Python, Django, FastAPI
AI focus
Operate AI inference infrastructure and partner with AI/ML teams to improve inference performance, reliability, resource utilization, and cost; use AI-assisted engineering and operational tools to improve productivity and infrastructure management.
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