Valon
Head of Infrastructure
$275K–$325K
Remote +2 · Remote · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Location
- Remote
San Francisco
New York - Experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years leading multiple teams, engineering managers, or a substantial infrastructure organization.
About the job
Leads Valon’s Cloud Infrastructure and Developer Infrastructure organization, setting strategy and overseeing the systems that operate ValonOS and support engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Define infrastructure strategy and own roadmaps and investment decisions across cloud, data, and developer platforms.
- Lead and grow engineering managers, technical leaders, and individual contributors; establish standards for reliability, security, and operational excellence.
- Partner across the company to align infrastructure priorities with customer and business needs, while guiding key architecture decisions.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years leading multiple teams, engineering managers, or a substantial infrastructure organization.
- Experience owning a broad infrastructure portfolio and operating critical production systems at scale, with strong distributed systems expertise.
- Experience setting strategy across production infrastructure and developer experience, or ability to credibly lead leaders in both areas.
- Hands-on experience with cloud providers such as AWS or GCP, container orchestration, data stores, CI/CD, and observability.
Pay
$275K – $325K USD base salary
Tools
AWS, GCP, CI/CD
AI focus
Adopt AI-enabled developer tools with appropriate quality, security, and governance controls.
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