Infrastructure Tech Lead – Infra Core

Deel

Infrastructure Tech Lead at Deel focused on providing technical direction for Infra Core team development. Building and scaling infrastructure solutions for the organization.

Posted 5/19/2026full-timeRemote • 🇪🇺 Anywhere in EuropeSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDistributed SystemsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesMySQLNode.jsPostgresPythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You will be the most senior technical voice on a team of four to five engineers, setting the technical direction while doing real, hands-on work in equal measure.
You will stay close to the architecture, code, and infrastructure while simultaneously shaping the roadmap and raising the team's bar.
Your primary focus is the application layer: how services are built, observed, and scaled across the organization.
You will be building the control plane, tooling, and infrastructure primitives that hundreds of Deel engineers depend on every day.
The shaping of what the team works on, prioritizing the roadmap, and determining how to tangibly improve developers' lives at Deel is 100% driven by you and the team.
You will design patterns and infrastructure for a rapidly growing Kubernetes ecosystem, shaping how hundreds of microservices are built, deployed, and efficiently scaled globally.
You are the ultimate escalation point during critical production incidents.
You will automate secure provisioning, database setups, and environment registrations so teams can deploy to Dev, Demo, Prod on the exact same day without Infra becoming a bottleneck.
You will tackle projects equivalent in scale and complexity to replacing entire ingress controller fleets or migrating massive backend traffic volumes to centralized API gateways without dropping requests.
You will architect zero-downtime secret rotation, eliminate legacy credential injection methods, and enforce strict boundaries between sensitive data and GitOps-driven configurations.
You will spearhead the evolution of our observability stack.
You will architect and deploy new platform capabilities, from enterprise-scale real-time WebSocket infrastructure to ensuring our platform natively and efficiently supports the massive influx of event-driven and AI-agentic workloads.
Work closely with DevOps, DBA, InfoSec, and product engineering teams to align on organizational goals.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 5+ years specifically focused on infrastructure (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps, CNCF landscape).
Expertise in writing production-grade code in Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, or Python.
2+ years of experience acting as a technical lead, mentoring engineers, and successfully driving projects with distributed, cross-functional teams across multiple time zones (this is a player-coach role, no direct HR management).
Proven experience designing high-performance, highly available distributed systems. You should have deep familiarity with message brokers (NATS, Kafka) and building event-driven architectures on top of them.
Experience designing and operating systems that extend Kubernetes—whether by building operators and controllers, integrating and customizing third-party tools, or architecting custom platform primitives on top of Kubernetes APIs.
Solid operational experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL), particularly around how they integrate and scale within a modern platform.
You have taken complex infrastructure projects from inception to delivery—writing the roadmap, aligning stakeholders, hitting milestones, and successfully shipping.
Strong written and verbal communication skills. You can articulate complex architectural tradeoffs clearly to both product engineers and leadership.
You make the tough calls, document your decisions, and never let perfect become the enemy of good.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access

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Hard Skills & Tools

Node.jsJavaScriptTypeScriptGoPythonKubernetesHelmGitOpsPostgreSQLMySQL

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentoringcommunicationproject managementdecision makingcollaborationproblem solvingroadmap developmentstakeholder alignmentdocumentation