# Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure

**Company:** [Brex](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/brex)
**Location:** Seattle, WA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $240k – $300k/yr
**Skills:** AWS, Kubernetes, Postgres, Terraform, EKS, Rds, Aurora, Vpc, Go, Kotlin
**Posted:** 2026-05-04

> Leads a senior team managing Brex's AWS cloud infrastructure, driving Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery initiatives with multi-region failover. Requires 3+ years managing engineering teams and deep hands-on AWS, Kubernetes, Postgres experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- **Lead and Grow**: Manage and support a senior team of 6 ICs, fostering a culture of high ownership, autonomy, and technical excellence.
- **Drive BCDR Strategy**: Oversee the execution of the multi-year BCDR initiative, ensuring multi-region infrastructure readiness and automated failover capabilities.
- **Technical Stewardship**: Maintain and scale Brex’s core cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes (EKS), RDS/Aurora/Postgres, networking (VPC), and AWS service integrations.
- **Cross-Functional Collaboration**: Partner with product and engineering teams across Brex to drive adoption of new infrastructure capabilities and ensure successful migrations.
- **Operational Excellence**: Improve team hygiene by establishing and improving best practices for work tracking (Linear), documentation, and incident response.
- **Resource Management**: Effectively allocate resources to balance critical project delivery with long-term infrastructure stability.

## Requirements

- **Leadership Experience**: 3+ years of experience directly managing software or infrastructure engineering teams.
- **Technical Depth**: Deep hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure foundations, specifically AWS, Kubernetes, and Postgres.
- **Architectural Insight**: Proven ability to design and implement complex infrastructure projects such as multi-region deployments or disaster recovery frameworks.
- **Collaborative Mindset**: Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions across multiple autonomous teams.
- **Analytical Problem Solving**: Ability to dive deep into technical issues while maintaining a high-level strategic view of organizational goals.
- **Engineering Background**: 5+ years of experience in software or systems engineering.

## Nice-to-Haves

- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, specifically Terraform.
- Background in managing cloud infrastructure cost optimization programs.
- Experience with our tech stack components: Go, Kotlin, Python, or Elixir.
- Passion for leveraging AI and LLM-assisted workflows to increase engineering velocity.

## Compensation

Expected salary range: $240,000 - $300,000. Starting base pay depends on location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. Equity and other compensation may be provided.

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