Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Brisk Teaching

Lead Infrastructure Engineer at Brisk Teaching, managing core infrastructure and developer experience. Overseeing reliability and scalability while mentoring a team of engineers.

Posted 6/26/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $220,000 - $245,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudEC2

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the roadmap and partner with our team on technical direction for Brisk's platform — core infrastructure, CI/CD, developer tooling, and shared services.
Mentor, and grow a small team of platform/infrastructure engineers (or grow into managing one, if you join as an IC).
Stay hands-on: design, build, and maintain the AWS-based infrastructure that powers our products.
Drive reliability and scalability so performance stays seamless as our user base expands.
Lead observability, monitoring, incident response, and on-call practices.
Partner with product engineers to keep development workflows smooth and production stable.
Make the architectural calls that balance rapid product development with long-term reliability and security.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years in software engineering with a strong focus on infrastructure.
People management experience, or a track record as a tech lead/mentor with a clear desire to people manage.
Experience designing scalable, cloud-native architectures on AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, etc.).
Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and monitoring tools.
A problem-solving mentality — comfortable moving between infra, backend, and occasional product work.
Strong written and oral communication, a proactive mindset, and the ability to operate independently in ambiguity.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringinfrastructure designcloud-native architectureAWSCI/CDdeployment automationmonitoring toolsscalabilityreliability engineeringincident response

Soft Skills

people managementmentoringproblem-solvingcommunicationproactive mindsetindependenceleadershipteam collaborationadaptabilitydecision making