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UpsideUpsideAustin, TX

Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure

Lead Infrastructure team as a Tech Lead Manager, spending half time on hands-on technical work and half on people leadership. Own AWS platform roadmap including cell-based architecture and AI-assisted deployment tooling.

185k – 215k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOEEngineering Management

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Lead a senior team of infrastructure engineers, providing technical guidance, career support, and execution leadership
  • Own the technical roadmap for Infrastructure, including cell-based architecture initiative and AI-assisted deployment tooling
  • Ensure AWS environments are secure, cost-efficient, and production-ready with strong foundations in IAM, networking, secrets management, encryption, and compliance-aware controls
  • Drive developer experience improvements across CI/CD, observability, and platform tooling
  • Drive operational excellence across reliability, scalability, and performance including capacity planning, incident management, on-call health, and post-incident learning
  • Partner closely with Product Security, Analytics Engineering, and AI Enablement
  • Represent Infrastructure in cross-functional planning and technical forums

Requirements

  • 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
  • Strong command of Terraform for IaC and GitHub Actions or equivalent for deployment pipelines
  • Background in DevOps or site reliability engineering
  • Experience in environments with real security, compliance, or data sensitivity requirements
  • Comfort owning large-scale infrastructure programs that span multiple teams
  • Eagerness to integrate AI and automation into infrastructure workflows

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with cell-based architecture and multi-region deployments
  • Experience with AI-assisted deployment tooling

Compensation & Benefits

  • US base salary range: $185,000 - $215,000 + equity + benefits
  • 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 + annual week-long Winter Break
  • Flexible work environment
  • Lunch reimbursement for in-office employees
  • Employee Resource Groups
  • Learning and Development stipend

Skills

AWSEC2AWS LambdaRdsDynamoDBIAMTerraformGitHub ActionsDevOpsSRE
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