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AtticusAtticusLos Angeles, CA

Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Lead Infrastructure Engineer shapes Atticus's infrastructure roadmap, builds security/reliability foundations, and empowers product teams with self-service tools. Requires 5+ years infra/SRE experience, GCP/Terraform expertise, and broad technical knowledge across networking, observability, and CI/CD.

170k – 220k/yr
Remote5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Shape infrastructure roadmap and drive progress toward it
  • Build security and operational foundations for sustainable growth
  • Improve reliability: reduce MTTR, establish SLOs, manage outages
  • Empower product teams by building platforms and tools for end-to-end system ownership

Qualifications

Required:

  • 5+ years in infrastructure / SRE / platform engineering roles, with breadth across infra disciplines
  • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals with a builder's mindset
  • Technical breadth: networking, security, observability, CI/CD, database operations, containerization
  • Experience with consumer-facing, revenue-critical systems

Bonus / Nice-to-Have:

  • Led infrastructure evolution at a growing startup on a small team

Compensation

  • Base salary: $170,000 - $220,000
  • Equity and generous benefits (medical/dental 100% covered, 15 vacation days, 401(k), etc.)

Skills

GCPTerraformPulumiCI/CDKubernetesNetworkingObservabilitySecurityDatabases

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