Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure

Upside

Engineering Manager leading Infrastructure team for Upside's cloud platform. Overseeing technical projects and mentoring senior engineers in AWS environments.

Posted 6/25/2026full-timeAustin • District of Columbia, Illinois, New York, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $185,000 - $215,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDynamoDBEC2Terraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead a senior team of infrastructure engineers, providing technical guidance, career support, and the execution leadership needed to ship high-impact platform work reliably and on time.
Own the technical roadmap for Infrastructure, including two major programs launching in 2026.
Ensure Upside's AWS environments are secure, cost-efficient, and production-ready.
Drive developer experience improvements across CI/CD, observability, and platform tooling.
Drive operational excellence across reliability, scalability, and performance.
Partner closely with Product Security, Analytics Engineering, and AI Enablement to ensure infrastructure decisions support reliable experimentation, scalable data systems, and safe AI adoption across R&D.
Represent Infrastructure in cross-functional planning and technical forums.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5–7 years of hands-on AWS experience with deep fluency in compute (EC2, Lambda), databases (RDS, DynamoDB), IAM, networking, and secrets management.
2–3 years managing infrastructure, platform, or SRE engineers; ideally a senior team where technical credibility mattered as much as people skills.
Strong command of Terraform for IaC and GitHub Actions or equivalent for deployment pipelines.
Background in DevOps or site reliability engineering; you understand what it means to operate systems at scale and build cultures of operational excellence.
Experience in environments with real security, compliance, or data sensitivity requirements; fintech, regulated industries, or companies handling sensitive consumer or financial data.
Comfort owning large-scale infrastructure programs that span multiple teams and require coordination across R&D, not just execution within your own team.
Eagerness to integrate AI and automation into infrastructure workflows; not as a future interest, but as something you're actively thinking about now.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on Day 1
Equity (ISOs)
401(k) program
Family planning programs + paid parental leave
Physical fitness and wellness memberships
Emotional and mental health support programs
Unlimited PTO + 10 paid federal holidays + our annual, week-long Winter Break
Flexible work environment
Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees
Employee Resource Groups
Learning and Development stipend
Transparent culture
Amazing mission!

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWSEC2LambdaRDSDynamoDBIAMnetworkingTerraformGitHub ActionsDevOps

Soft Skills

technical guidancecareer supportexecution leadershippeople skillsoperational excellencecross-functional collaborationcommunication