Director, Cloud Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Set the infrastructure strategy for Sanity’s next stage of scale, with a roadmap across cloud infrastructure, reliability, deployment, observability, security, cost, and developer experience.
• Lead teams responsible for GCP projects and clusters, Kubernetes, networking, service discovery, routing, gateways, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability.
• Define ownership between Platform and SRE, enabling product teams to run services effectively with strong tooling, standards, and incident support.
• Raise reliability standards across production systems, including dashboards, alert severity, paging, service ownership, on-call readiness, and incident response.
• Establish clear deployment paths, production-readiness checks, safe rollouts, and automation.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, Support, Sales, and Customer Success on uptime, latency, scale, compliance, trust, and cost.
• Own cloud cost discipline and make infrastructure tradeoffs visible.
• Shape longer-term architecture for multi-region scale, disaster recovery, data residency, and customer trust requirements.
• Hire, coach, and develop infrastructure leaders and engineers.

Requirements

• Experience leading Infrastructure, Platform, SRE, Cloud, or Developer Platform teams in a scaling SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, API, data, or developer-tools company.
• Experience operating high-volume, multi-region production systems with strict uptime expectations, large cloud bills, customer-facing incidents, and trust requirements.
• Experience building or running production platforms with Kubernetes, GCP or AWS, Terraform or similar infrastructure as code, service discovery, networking, API gateways, CDNs, observability, CI/CD, and incident response.
• Technical depth to debate architecture with senior infrastructure engineers and make pragmatic decisions.
• Experience separating central platform ownership from product-team service ownership.
• Experience improving on-call and reliability through systems, standards, and feedback loops.
• Ability to turn complex infrastructure work into an actionable strategy and drive execution.
• Strong communication skills with executives, product leaders, engineers, and customer-facing teams.
• Experience managing managers or senior technical leads.

Benefits and Compensation

• Real infrastructure scale and a clear mandate to change how it works.
• Senior seat in R&D with close partnership across Product, Engineering, Security, and customer-facing teams.
• Skilled, supportive team and flexible, trust-based work environment.
• Global, culturally diverse colleagues and customers.
• Comprehensive health plans and perks.
• Work-life balance that accommodates individual and family needs.
• Competitive stock options and location-based salary.