Director of Infrastructure
Help define the future of hardware development by building a collaboration platform for circuit designs, enabling the next generation of smart vehicles, IoT devices, rockets, medical devices, robotics, and much more.
At AllSpice, we're building the agile development environment for hardware designers, including a Git-friendly translation layer and automated CI/CD framework for native circuit designs, think GitHub/GitLab + Copilot for electronics.
Read more about our latest Series A announcement here!
As Director of Infrastructure, you will own AllSpice's infrastructure, security, and compliance programs end-to-end while building and leading a small, high-impact team. This is a hands-on leadership role: roughly 60% management and strategic work, 40% individual contribution, reporting to the CTO. With the team at 1-2 people for the next 12 months, there are no layers between you and production - you'll write the Terraform, lead the incident call, and walk an enterprise customer's CISO through our security posture, sometimes all in the same week.
If you want executive-level ownership at a fast-growing startup - and you still love shipping infrastructure yourself - this role is for you.
What you'll do
This is a high-impact role that comes with significant autonomy and requires a self-driven, strategic, and collaborative builder. You will own our infrastructure, security, and compliance programs end-to-end.
Hands-on infrastructure and scaling
Architect, build, and operate our production AWS environments using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code - you'll ship your own changes
Make the architectural calls on cloud strategy, high availability, scaling, and cost optimization as our workloads and customer base grow
Automate deployments, backups, and disaster recovery across AllSpice Cloud, single-tenant, and self-hosted configurations
Monitor and improve the performance, availability, and cost efficiency of production systems across all hosting models
Work closely with application developers to deploy infrastructure solutions to product problems
Customer-facing engineering
Lead enterprise deployments end-to-end across our three hosting models - AllSpice Cloud, single-tenant instances, and self-hosted - including architecture reviews, SSO/OIDC integrations, and security sign-off
Own the process for spinning up application instances for customer evaluations - streamline it now, automate it over time
Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customer InfoSec questionnaires, IT security reviews, and procurement processes
Support self-hosted and GovCloud deployments for customers with ITAR, EAR, or CUI requirements
Partner with customer success and sales to turn infrastructure into a reason enterprises buy
Security and compliance ownership
Own AllSpice's security posture: policies, incident response, disaster recovery, and ongoing risk assessment
Maintain SOC 2 compliance, penetration testing, and audit processes; evaluate additional certifications as we grow
Work with legal counsel on security and data-protection matters, including DPAs, breach notification obligations, and regulatory requirements
People management and team building
Hire, mentor, and manage infrastructure engineers as the team grows
Set team goals, define processes, and establish on-call rotations - and take your own turn in the rotation, leading incident response when needed
Create growth paths for ICs and foster a culture of operational excellence
Example projects
Automate provisioning of evaluation instances so a prospective customer can be testing AllSpice in hours, not days
Scale infrastructure for zero-downtime deployments across multi-region AWS accounts
Plan and evaluate horizontal scaling strategies for compute runtime to support growing workloads and concurrent users
Lead an enterprise customer through a self-hosted deployment, including architecture review, SSO integration, and security sign-off
Identify opportunities to reduce cloud spend while improving performance
Stress-test backup and disaster recovery procedures and publish runbooks
Drive SOC 2 Type II renewals and maintain ongoing compliance cadence
Coordinate tabletop exercises and incident response drills with the Security Incident Response Team
Our stack
Terraform & Docker Swarm deployed to AWS for production infrastructure
Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus for observability
GitHub Actions for CI/CD
Playwright for e2e testing
Gitea application fork
Go [server-side]
PostgreSQL
Expectations
Our ideal candidate has:
8+ years of cloud infrastructure and/or security engineering experience, with recent hands-on production work - you've written Terraform and debugged a live incident in the past year, not the past decade
Experience owning infrastructure at a startup or on a small team, where you built systems yourself rather than directing a platform org
Fluency in the operational differences between multi-tenant SaaS, single-tenant, and self-hosted deployments - and how each changes the approach to support, monitoring, and implementation
2+ years of people management experience (hiring, mentoring, performance management)
Deep hands-on expertise with AWS services (IAM, GuardDuty, VPC, Lambda, etc.), Linux administration, and Docker
Demonstrated ownership of security policy, compliance programs (SOC 2, ISO 27001), and incident response
Confidence in front of customers - you can run an InfoSec review, present to a CISO, and guide an enterprise onboarding
Strong project management skills with ability to lead cross-functional initiatives from engineers to customers
Comfort with ambiguity and a high degree of autonomy
Must be a U.S. Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident (Green Card holder)
Relevant skills
You don't need to check every box, but the more of these you bring, the better:
Infrastructure and operations
Terraform and infrastructure-as-code at scale
AWS services (IAM, GuardDuty, Elasticsearch, ElastiCache, Lambda) and experience with other cloud providers (GCP, Azure)
Docker and Kubernetes
Bash and Python scripting
nginx and reverse-proxy services
PostgreSQL administration
Automated provisioning and orchestration of per-customer environments
Security and compliance
SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other security certification frameworks
ITAR/EAR/CUI compliance and GovCloud deployments
SSO, OIDC, LDAP, and enterprise authentication
Vulnerability scanning, penetration testing coordination, and vendor security reviews
Leadership
Hiring, mentoring, and building infrastructure teams from the ground up
Working with legal counsel on data protection, DPAs, and regulatory matters
Customer-facing technical communication (InfoSec reviews, enterprise onboarding)
Project management using tools such as Jira, Notion, or similar
Benefits
Opportunity to make a large impact at an executive level
Supportive and smart colleagues
Flexible work
Competitive salary and equity
Health, dental, and vision benefits
Generous PTO
Home office stipend
Relocation package