Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

What you’ll do

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Build and drive day-to-day processes that lead to a highly efficient team of high performing engineers

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Build and deliver incrementally with a multi-quarter roadmap that drives operational excellence, scalability and reliability.

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Hire, coach, and mentor individuals, fostering a strong cross-functional organization. Your leadership will be key in developing the team's skills and capabilities.

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Provide technical expertise and leadership across cloud infrastructure, developer operations and experience, security, and compliance (including SOC 2). Influence best practices for software engineers on your team and ensure the operational excellence of high-stake services. This includes regular reviews and updates to meet evolving requirements and security standards.

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Collaborate with internal engineering teams, customers and company leaders to enable sustainable, reliable growth.

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Contribute to the engineering leadership of the entire organization to continually align the org with Quandri’s guiding principles.

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Provide clarity in an ambiguous environment, both for your team and for your peers and leaders.

Experience

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Over 4 years of engineering team management experience.

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More than 8 years of professional engineering experience.

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At least 5 years of experience delivering mission critical software

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In-depth knowledge of AWS, CI/CD with Github Actions, kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, database management, service meshes, security operations, SOC 2 compliance, IAM, test environments, and SRE.

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Proven experience with B2B enterprise software.

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Proficient in software development best practices, with a history of deploying and operating software at scale.

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Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

Bonus points if you have

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Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or related IT discipline; or equivalent experience.

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Experience in working with startups

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A candidate who exhibits exceptional proficiency in Python. The ideal applicant should have a strong track record of developing complex solutions using Python and demonstrate a deep understanding of its capabilities and best practices. An ability to write clean, efficient, and well-documented code in Python is highly desirable.

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Experience in communicating with senior leadership to manage infrastructure costs, enable shared capabilities and manage security risks.

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Experience implementing AI-driven dev environments

Our guiding principles

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Customers at the core. We put the customer at the centre of all we do. At a basic level, we believe business success comes down to talking to customers and building something they want. We don’t listen to customers and just take what they say blindly, but we think critically about it and build what they need. Customers are the core of everything we do, and our business exists to serve them. We prioritize their needs over all else within the company.

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Move with urgency. Organizations tend to slow down as they become larger. Small startups have the advantage of speed. We require urgency in all things - from sending an email to code changes - this enables us to stay agile and maintain our startup edge.

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Be curious. We understand the world by being curious and asking why. We aren’t satisfied with surface level understanding, and seek a deeper understanding of why things are the way they are. Don’t take someone’s word for it or the answer “because that’s how we do it.” Understand why and dig deep.

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Excellence in execution. We know that what separates good from great is a high level of execution. We commit ourselves to excellence in everything that we do, from delivering an amazing product to writing a great email.

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Act like an owner. We’re all owners of the business and act like it. We follow through on commitments, own our results and think long-term.

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Fight for simplicity. Systems evolve to become more complex over time. We know there is sophistication in simplicity; as such, we intentionally fight for streamlined solutions and are committed to the uncomplicated.

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AI-first. We believe AI is a fundamental shift in how work gets done, not just a tool we occasionally reach for. At Quandri, we lead with AI, in how we build our product, how we run our operations, and how we think about every process and workflow. This isn't about replacing people; it's about unlocking them to do higher-value work.

Compensation and Benefits

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• The range for base pay is $170,000 - $210,000 which is dependent on level of experience
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• Employee stock options, granted based off experience level upon hire and subject to a standard vesting schedule
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• Employee stock options based on experience level
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• Comprehensive health benefits, including $500 Lifestyle Spending Account
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• Four weeks of paid vacation per year
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• Work anywhere in the world for 60 calendar days of the year
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• Parental leave top-ups: 6 months for birthing parents, 8 weeks for non-birthing parents (up to $100,000 annual salary)