What you'll be doing
This is a player-coach role. You'll lead and grow the team while staying close to the work, and you'll own the technical and strategic direction for how Alloy runs in production.
Lead, coach, and develop a team of seven infrastructure and site reliability engineers through 1:1s, career conversations, design reviews, and pairing. Hire and onboard the engineers who join it.
Write and review production code and Terraform, lead design discussions, and take on scoped technical projects without becoming the team's bottleneck.
Own the roadmap and delivery for Kubernetes, databases, networking, private connectivity for enterprise clients, CI/CD, and cloud accounts, built to meet audit controls and scale globally.
Drive the shift from manual operations to automated and AI-assisted operations, from provisioning, upgrades, and migrations to self-service tooling and AI agents for incident triage and routine infrastructure work.
Set the bar for reliability and resilience across SLOs, disaster recovery, multi-region failover, and capacity. Join the on-call rotation and lead incident response with a focus on preventing the next one.
Make the architecture calls across infrastructure, reliability, and security, including build-vs-buy and cost tradeoffs.
Protect the team's focus and keep stakeholders aligned. Manage competing priorities, remove blockers, surface risks early, and say no when it matters.
Who we’re looking for
Must-haves
10+ years in infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or SRE roles, including at least 3 years leading an infrastructure, platform, or SRE team.
Current hands-on skills. You still design, build, and ship infrastructure yourself, with strong Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code experience and proficiency in Python, Go, or another language.
Expert-level AWS knowledge (a professional or specialty certification, or equivalent experience) and production Kubernetes experience, including managing clusters and building the systems that deploy applications onto them.
A track record of running on-call rotations, leading incident response, and fixing what incidents reveal.
Experience hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineers through feedback, pairing, and delegation.
Based in New York City and able to work from our Union Square office three days a week.
Nice-to-haves
Hands-on use of AI tooling in engineering and operations, such as coding agents, agent harnesses, or AI-assisted incident response, with good judgment about where automation is safe in production.
Familiarity with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI, ideally from a high-growth company with strict security requirements.
Experience troubleshooting distributed systems at scale with Datadog, CloudWatch, ELK, or similar observability tools.
Alloy is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Below is the anticipated starting base compensation range for this role; however, pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, in-demand skills, relevant experience, and/or geography. In addition to a competitive base salary, this position is also eligible for equity awards in the form of stock options (ISOs) as well as a competitive total benefits package. Your recruiter will be happy to walk you through the details and what compensation could look like for you specifically!
This position has a base salary range of $222,000 to $280,000.
Benefits and Perks
We invest in your health, your financial future, and your growth. Here's what you can expect:
Medical, dental, and vision coverage from the first of the month after you join, including $0 employee-only premium options, plus FSA options and an Alloy-funded HSA with our high-deductible plan
Healia: if your spouse or partner has health insurance through their employer, Alloy may cover up to 100% of your family's costs on their plan
Alloy-paid One Medical membership, Spring Health therapy and coaching, Superpower advanced lab testing, and ClassPass credits
Stock options for every full-time employee
401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of pay, vested immediately, plus a mega backdoor Roth option
Free, unlimited 1:1 financial planning through Addition Wealth
Unlimited PTO plus company holidays
16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for eligible birthing, non-birthing, adoptive, and foster parents
Annual learning and development stipend, plus a home office stipend to set up your workspace
Hybrid work environment: most team members work from our HQ in Union Square, Manhattan, Tuesday through Thursday, with in-office expectations that vary by role. Catered lunches from a variety of local restaurants and frequent employee-organized cultural events bring energy to the office. On Mondays and Fridays, many employees work remotely, while some take advantage of the quieter office.
How to apply
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