Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

Genius AI•San Francisco, CA

1d•$230,000 - $280,000•Onsite

About The Position

Genius AI is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure to lead its Compute, Data, and DevEx teams. This role owns the platform that powers everything Genius AI ships, including setting reliability standards, managing vendor spend, and building self-service infrastructure that enables product engineers to ship. The manager will define the platform’s direction and grow the team responsible for it. The role owns the infrastructure and data-platform technical roadmap, scaling systems to support substantially more traffic while maintaining a 99.95% uptime target and controlling cloud costs across multiple AWS regions. It will advance agentic production operations, establish reliability engineering practices with product engineering, improve developer experience through standardized CI and self-service infrastructure tooling, lead incident response, and guide vendor strategy and infrastructure budgets. The role reports to the VP of Engineering. The successful candidate must be commutable to the San Francisco office and work in an in-person environment, with employees generally in the office 3–4 days per week.

Requirements

At least 8 years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience.
At least 4 years managing or leading engineering teams at a high-growth technology company.
Demonstrated experience fundamentally changing how a team operates through AI, including being able to describe the system designed, work it absorbed, and work engineers stopped doing.
Ability to set technical direction with incomplete information, ship, and adjust based on data.
Experience managing managers or tech leads and scaling a team through significant growth while maintaining performance standards and culture.
Deep hands-on expertise across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, and modern observability tooling, including the ability to debug complex distributed systems.
Strong business acumen, treating cloud spend, developer velocity, and reliability as business-enabling levers.
Track record of developing engineers and specific examples of their subsequent accomplishments.

Responsibilities

Lead the Compute, Data, and DevEx teams and define the direction of the infrastructure platform.
Own the technical roadmap for infrastructure and the data platform, scaling capacity to support an order of magnitude more traffic while maintaining a 99.95% uptime target and controlling cloud spend across multiple AWS regions.
Shape agentic production operations by building an AI enablement layer that lets engineers delegate routine operational work to agents.
Define reliability engineering practices with product engineering, including SLI and SLO frameworks, incident response, and post-mortems.
Improve developer experience through CI platform standardization and self-service tooling that lets teams manage infrastructure as code without a platform engineer in the loop.
Lead incident command during critical outages and turn incidents into systemic fixes.
Own vendor strategy and infrastructure budgets, negotiate enterprise contracts, and lead vendor migrations when justified by cost or capability.
Grow and evolve the team responsible for the platform.

Benefits

Competitive health and dental insurance options effective on the first day of employment.
Flexible PTO.
In-office lunch twice per week for NYC and San Francisco employees, plus late-night dinner stipends.
Access to Wellhub, a corporate wellness platform with discounted gym memberships, fitness classes, and mental health resources.
Annual professional development and continued-learning stipend.
A $5,000 bonus for high performers at five years, to use however they choose.
401(k) contributions available starting on the first day of employment.
Dependent Care FSA.
Paid parental leave.
Fertility and adoption benefits through Carrot and Kindbody.