Senior Systems Engineering Lead (Infrastructure)

Connvertex Technologies • New York City, NY

7d • Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for a Staff Engineer to help set the technical direction for our core infrastructure, which is critical for the product. This role operates at the organization level, owning the architecture, solving complex systems problems, and driving initiatives that shape how the organization grows, performs, and remains reliable. You will be one of the key technical authorities and a force multiplier. You'll raise engineering standards across the team, mentor senior talent, and own production outcomes. This is a high-impact, hands-on technical leader role. Client helps companies improve their experience with GitHub Actions by enabling them to run their GitHub Actions substantially faster and more cheaply, and by providing rich analytics about their workflows.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and scaling low-level distributed systems.
• Delivered meaningful, zero-to-one infrastructure at a prestigious organization.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, early-stage startup environment.
• Track record of materially impacting the trajectory of engineering teams and infrastructure at scale.
• Deep familiarity with virtualization technologies such as Firecracker, QEMU, or Cloud Hypervisor, and an understanding of the trade-offs between them.
• Experience with distributed storage systems (e.g., Ceph) and a strong grasp of low-level file system performance, I/O tuning, and storage reliability at scale.
• Comfort working at the kernel and filesystem level: experience with eBPF, cgroups, namespaces, or similar Linux primitives.
• Track record of leading through influence and shaping technical direction while operating as an individual contributor.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex systems-level concepts to engineers, leadership, and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Found or been early at a startup that grew into a recognized leader.
• Publications, patents, or conference talks to your name.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the architectural direction for critical infrastructure platforms.
• Translate business and product strategy into long-term technical roadmaps and execution plans.
• Accountable for production outcomes, including reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
• Mentor senior engineers and act as a force multiplier.
• Operate effectively in ambiguous problem spaces where both the problem and the solution need to be defined.

What This Job Offers

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