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Staff/Principal Infrastructure Engineer

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We’re looking for a player-coach to lead infrastructure at Unstructured. This role is perfect for a Principal Infrastructure Software Engineer ready to mentor or a hands-on Director who still loves to build. You’ll own our cloud infrastructure and internal platforms, mentor engineers, and set the direction for how we scale securely and efficiently. As a key technical leader, you will own organization-level infrastructure design and reliability strategies, large-scale infrastructure challenges. Your work will be foundational to scaling our systems, ensuring high availability, performance, and security across our stack.

Key Responsibilities:


Infrastructure Leadership: Own and drive the architecture and design of scalable, resilient infrastructure systems across the organization. Define and influence infrastructure strategy in alignment with product and business goals.

Strategic Projects:

Lead cross-functional, high-impact infrastructure initiatives involving compute, networking, storage, and orchestration. Provide deep technical guidance and mentorship across engineering, platform, and DevOps teams.

Systems Problem Solving:

Solve persistent and complex infrastructure problems at scale. Drive root cause analysis, mitigation strategies, and proactive risk reduction across systems.

Hands-On Engineering:

Contribute directly to the design, implementation, and optimization of core infrastructure. Improve CI/CD pipelines, observability, automation, and production readiness for mission-critical systems.

Mentorship & Enablement:

Mentor engineers and promote a culture of operational excellence, automation, and reliability. Act as a force multiplier by raising infrastructure engineering standards and best practices across teams.

Cross-Team Alignment:

Ensure consistent, simple, and scalable infrastructure designs that enable fast-moving product teams. Resolve escalations related to performance, uptime, or platform dependencies and prevent long-term architectural bottlenecks.

Organizational Impact:

Shape how we build, deploy, and operate our systems now and in the future. Make foundational decisions that impact developer experience, cloud strategy, and platform capabilities.

Qualifications:


-Experience: 10+ years of infrastructure or site reliability engineering experience with a track record of leading and delivering complex systems at scale.-Technical Expertise: Python, Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), IaC tools (e.g., Terraform), and system observability.-Leadership: Proven experience influencing technical strategy and architecture across multiple teams. Skilled at mentoring and building high-performing infrastructure or SRE teams.-Problem Solving: Exceptional systems-thinking and debugging skills; adept at analyzing complex distributed systems and designing scalable, fault-tolerant solutions.-Communication: Clear, concise communicator who can convey infrastructure concepts to both technical stakeholders and non-engineering partners.-Adaptability: Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-changing environments where infrastructure needs evolve rapidly alongside product requirements.

Why Join Us?


Impactful Work:


 Play a key role in shaping the future of our organization and its products.

Innovation:


 Work on challenging problems that require innovative solutions.

Growth:


 Opportunities to grow your career in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Collaboration:


 Join a team that values collaboration, mentorship, and continuous learning.Apply for this job

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Life at Unstructured Technologies

Transforming Natural Language Data From Raw to Machine Learning-Ready: Open source libraries and APIs to build custom preprocessing pipelines for labeling, training, or production machine learning pipelines.
Thrive Here & What We Value1. Dynamic Sales Team2. Flexible Working Hours and Remote Working Opportunities3. Professional Growth and Development in an Innovative Tech Company4. Emphasis on Innovation and Creativity5. Collaborative Work Environment6. Impactful Role in Shaping the Company's Direction and Driving Innovation in Unstructured Data Processing7. Remote First Company8. Competitive Salary and Performance-Based Incentives9. Comprehensive Benefits Package, Including Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance10. Vibrant and Inclusive Work Environment Where Your Ideas Matter

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