Software Engineering Lead, Infrastructure

Kaizen Labs

full-time

Posted on: 10/20/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $180,000 - $220,000 per year

Senior

AWSCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesTerraform

About the role

Build and execute the infrastructure roadmap, defining priorities and driving adoption.
Own and consolidate our cloud footprint.
Manage infrastructure and observability tools (Datadog, Sentry, etc.) and expand their effectiveness.
Collaborate with product engineers to build scalable dev tooling and CI/CD pipelines.
Lead and mentor a small team while remaining a strong IC.
Ensure compliance-ready infrastructure for government and other highly regulated environments.
Make high-level architectural decisions to evolve our platform from early-stage infrastructure into enterprise-grade operations.

6+ years of infrastructure or DevOps engineering experience.
Proven experience building 0→1 cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP strongly preferred).
Proficiency with Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes (or equivalent cloud-native tools).
Experience in high-compliance environments (government, healthcare, finance, or public companies).
Strong background in observability and monitoring (Datadog, Sentry, or similar).
Comfortable leading projects and/or teams, or owning complex infrastructure initiatives.
A “builder” mentality: you’ve walked into messy infra setups and transformed them into scalable, reliable systems.

Benefits

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

infrastructure engineeringDevOps engineeringcloud infrastructureTerraformDockerKubernetesCI/CD pipelinesobservabilitymonitoring

leadershipmentoringcollaborationproject managementproblem-solving