Director of Infrastructure
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Job Summary
Our client a Silicon Valley-based industry leader in retail AI solutions is now looking for an experienced Director of Infrastructure to join its expanding team.
Location: Poland Europe
Type: Remote Full-time
Start date: ASAP
About Company:
The company is the industry leader in retail AI solutions a Silicon Valley-based startup headquartered in San Francisco with operations in Canada the UK multiple EU countries and a tech hub in Poland.
A Deep Learning-first organization their mission is to automate and optimize brick-and-mortar retail through deep learning computer vision. Their technology has been deployed at scale with some of the worlds top retailers processing hundreds of millions of images per day across tens of thousands of stores globally.
Recently named Confluents inaugural Data Streaming Startup of the Year theyve earned recognition for taking on the most demanding engineering challenges at the core of their business.
They are looking for smart creative and passionate people who want to help build a great and enduring company.
About Role:
The core challenge is scale. The company processes millions of images per day across thousands of retail locations globally and that number is growing fast. Their infrastructure needs to be reliable cost-efficient and capable of handling an order-of-magnitude increase in load without a proportional increase in cost or complexity. The right person for this role will be the one who makes that happen.
Responsibilities:
- Own the design operation and continuous improvement of companys core infrastructure - cloud data pipelines deployments and observability.
- Drive meaningful reductions in COGS and latency without sacrificing reliability or developer velocity.
- Architect and maintain scalable data-heavy backend infrastructure built on Python FastAPI Kafka Docker and cloud platforms.
- Build and operate deployment pipelines - blue/green and canary deployments CI/CD tooling and release processes that support zero-downtime launches at scale.
- Design and implement monitoring and alerting systems that provide genuine visibility into system health across geographies and environments.
- Create tooling that gives engineers and stakeholders transparent easy access to data stored across varying geographic locations and formats.
- Collaborate closely with backend deep learning and embedded engineering teams to ensure infrastructure evolves with product and model requirements.
- Establish and enforce infrastructure best practices across the engineering organization.
- Hire and develop a high-impact infrastructure team as the company scales.
Requirements:
- Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
- 8 years of experience in infrastructure platform or distributed systems engineering.
- 3 years in a technical leadership role with experience managing or mentoring engineers.
- Deep hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS GCP or Azure) at production scale.
- Strong experience with Python and comfort working across the backend stack.
- Extensive experience with Kafka or comparable data streaming platforms.
- Solid experience with Docker Kubernetes and container orchestration in production.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD practices and deployment strategies (blue/green canary feature flags).
- Experience building observability systems - metrics logging distributed tracing
- Proven track record of driving down infrastructure costs while maintaining or improving system reliability.
- Experience with data-intensive applications and microservices at scale.
- Startup mentality - you take ownership and prioritize.
- Flexibility to coordinate across time zones with our global team.
- Fluent in English (Upper-Intermediate or above). Polish is a plus but not required
Why Join:
- Strong Values and Mission - Is a tightly-knit team with an ambitious mission and a strong set of core values which define our approach to business and have successfully guided us since inception.
- Exceptional Team - They are a team of hard-working fun-loving professionals from some of the most eminent universities research labs and tech companies of our time. We pride ourselves on recruiting exceptional individuals to help us redefine the state-of-the-art.
- Outstanding Partners - The company works with the largest retailers in the world and has a world-class roster of investors advisors and partners to support & advise us in our endeavors.
The company offers:
- Competitive Salary & Attractive Stock
- Paid Time Off
- Team Retreats
- Education grants
Key Skills
- Crisis Management
- Marketing
- Public Relations
- Fundraising
- Media Relations
- Constant Contact
- Strategic Planning
- Social Media Management
- Team Management
- Public Speaking
- Wordpress
- Writing Skills
