# Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

**Company:** [Genius AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/genius-ai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $230k – $280k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Argo CD, Observability, Distributed Systems, Infrastructure As Code, CI/CD, Sli/Slo, Incident Response, Cloud Cost Management, Artificial Intelligence
**Posted:** 2026-08-17

> Leads Compute, Data, and Developer Experience teams, owning infrastructure strategy, reliability, developer enablement, vendor spend, and team growth. The role requires 8+ years of infrastructure or platform experience, 4+ years of engineering leadership, and deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, and observability.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the technical roadmap for infrastructure and the data platform, scaling to support substantially more traffic while targeting 99.95% uptime and controlling cloud spend across multiple AWS regions.
- Shape agentic production operations and build an AI enablement layer that delegates routine operational work to agents.
- Define the reliability engineering practice, including SLI and SLO frameworks, incident response, and post-mortems.
- Improve developer experience through CI platform standardization and self-service infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Lead incident command during critical outages and drive systemic fixes.
- Own vendor strategy and the infrastructure budget, including enterprise contract negotiations and vendor migrations.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience.
- 4+ years managing or leading engineering teams at a high-growth technology company.
- Experience fundamentally changing team operations through AI, including designing systems that absorb operational work.
- Ability to set technical direction with incomplete information, execute, and adjust based on data.
- Experience managing managers or tech leads and scaling teams while maintaining performance and culture.
- Deep hands-on expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, and modern observability tooling.
- Ability to debug complex distributed systems.
- Strong business acumen across cloud spend, developer velocity, and reliability.
- Track record of developing engineers.

## Compensation & Benefits
- Base salary: $230,000-$280,000, plus equity and benefits.
- Health and dental insurance effective on the first day of employment.
- Flexible paid time off.
- In-office lunch twice weekly for NYC and SF employees, plus late-night dinner stipends.
- Wellhub corporate wellness access.
- Annual professional development and continued learning stipend.
- $5,000 recharge bonus for high performers at five years.
- 401(k) contributions available from the first day of employment.
- Dependent Care FSA.
- Paid parental leave.
- Fertility and adoption benefits.

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