# Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure

**Company:** [Upside](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/upside)
**Location:** Austin, TX, Chicago, IL, New York, NY, Washington, DC
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $185k – $215k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** AWS, EC2, AWS Lambda, Rds, DynamoDB, IAM, Terraform, GitHub Actions, DevOps, SRE
**Posted:** 2026-06-25

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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