Head of Infrastructure

Valon Tech

1d • $275,000 - $325,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Valon is seeking a Head of Infrastructure to lead both Cloud Infrastructure and Developer Infrastructure functions. This senior manager or Director-level role is responsible for the systems that run ValonOS and the platform enabling engineers to build and operate it. The position involves setting infrastructure strategy across Compute, Storage, data platforms, developer tooling, CI/CD, test infrastructure, observability, and engineering productivity. The leader will build and manage a growing organization, including managers and senior technical leaders, while maintaining technical involvement for sound architectural and investment decisions. The role requires balancing a production platform that is secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-conscious with a developer platform that facilitates rapid, high-quality software delivery. Collaboration with product, engineering, security, data, and operations leaders is key to developing a coherent roadmap and achieving measurable results. Given Valon's high volume of background jobs (over 100 million daily) and expected 10x growth, the infrastructure organization will be critical for maintaining reliability, accelerating innovation, and setting standards for regulated financial software.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years leading multiple teams, engineering managers, or a substantial infrastructure organization.
• Experience owning a broad infrastructure portfolio that includes cloud platforms, compute, storage, databases, SRE, developer infrastructure, or related domains.
• Strong technical depth in distributed systems and a track record of operating critical production systems at scale.
• Experience setting strategy across both production infrastructure and developer experience, or the ability to credibly lead leaders in both areas.
• Hands-on experience with cloud providers such as AWS or GCP, container orchestration, data stores, CI/CD, and observability.
• Excellent organizational judgment: you can sequence foundational investments, make pragmatic tradeoffs, and connect technical work to business outcomes.
• Demonstrated success hiring, developing, and retaining strong teams through periods of rapid growth and change.
• Clear, concise communication and the ability to build alignment across engineering, product, security, data, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate a multi-year infrastructure strategy spanning Cloud Infrastructure and Developer Infrastructure.
• Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing organization, including engineering managers, senior technical leaders, and individual contributors.
• Own the portfolio roadmap and investment decisions across Compute, Storage, data platforms, developer experience, CI/CD, test infrastructure, and observability.
• Set company-wide standards for reliability, security, service ownership, incident management, developer productivity, and operational excellence.
• Partner with executive and functional leaders to align infrastructure priorities with customer commitments, product strategy, and business goals.
• Build the planning, review, and operating mechanisms that make progress visible and tradeoffs explicit.
• Stay hands-on enough to guide architecture, challenge assumptions, and engage in the most important technical decisions and incidents.
• Recruit exceptional talent, develop leaders, and create a culture of high agency, high accountability, direct feedback, and collaboration.
• Represent infrastructure clearly to the broader company and make the organization a trusted partner to every engineering team.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with meaningful equity and a 401(k) plan.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Pre-tax commuter benefits for transportation, rideshare, and parking.
• Company-wide onboarding, career development, and regular review cycles with 360-degree feedback.
• Quarterly budgets for team activities, swag, dinners, and more.
• Flexible PTO, sick days, and 11 company holidays.
• 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed