Replit

Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure

Foster City, CA, Remote. Posted a month ago

The role

You will lead the Cloud Infrastructure team building and operating shared infrastructure as code, networking, storage, compute, and service mesh platforms. You will own the cloud-platform roadmap and build repeatable, self-service infrastructure for internal teams.

What you will do

  • Own the cloud-platform roadmap.
  • Lead the team's IaC, networking, storage, compute, and service mesh platforms.
  • Build maintained IaC interfaces for services, cells, connectivity, identities, and shared resources.
  • Enable internal customer teams to provision infrastructure without bespoke coordination.
  • Own platform availability, upgrades, isolation, recovery, and incident remediation.
  • Maintain clear SLOs, sustainable on-call coverage, and primary and backup owners for critical systems.
  • Review designs and production changes and debug difficult failure modes.
  • Use AI coding tools to prototype and automate.
  • Coach engineers, develop technical leaders, set clear expectations, manage performance, and hire.
  • Delegate meaningful ownership as the team grows.

Required qualifications

  • Demonstrated engineering management.
  • Led and developed engineers, made prioritization and performance decisions, hired thoughtfully, and delivered through a team.
  • Software-oriented infrastructure depth.
  • Built and operated cloud platforms or distributed systems.
  • Can reason across infrastructure code, Kubernetes, networking, service identity, and stateful dependencies.
  • Safe-change and production judgment.
  • Owned consequential migrations and incidents.
  • Can explain failure modes and rollback limits.
  • Platform-product and engineering judgment.
  • Understand internal customers, create interfaces other teams adopt, and make clear tradeoffs among reliability, developer autonomy, engineering effort, and workload efficiency.

Nice to have

  • Experience with multi-tenant, cellular, regional, or dedicated enterprise infrastructure.
  • Familiarity with GCP/GKE, Terraform or similar IaC systems, Cloudflare, Envoy/Istio, SPIFFE/SPIRE, and managed data services.
  • Experience with large-fleet rightsizing, infrastructure consolidation, or migrating CI compute without disrupting developer workflows.
  • A track record using AI tools to increase engineering output while preserving production safeguards.

Benefits

  • Competitive Salary & Equity
  • 401(k) Program with a 4% match (US Only)
  • Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
  • Short Term and Long Term Disability
  • Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave
  • Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays
  • Commuter Benefits (In-Office & US Only)
  • Monthly Wellness Stipend
  • Autonomous Work Environment
  • In Office Set-Up Reimbursement (In-Office Only)
  • Quarterly Team Gatherings
  • In Office Amenities (In-Office Only)

About the company

Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. It is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.

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