Engineering Director, Infrastructure (AI)

Location: Mountain View, California; hybrid

Salary: $244,000–$313,000 USD per year

Company

hirify.global develops artificial intelligence products for meeting transcription, summarization, collaboration, and actionable conversation data.

What you will do

• Own the architecture and operation of cloud, compute, networking, databases, production systems, and AI inference infrastructure.
• Translate product and business plans into infrastructure roadmaps, capacity requirements, staffing plans, and investment decisions.
• Establish reliability, observability, security, compliance, incident management, disaster recovery, and business continuity practices.
• Improve developer velocity through automation, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and self-service tooling.
• Partner with AI/ML, Product, Security, Engineering, and Finance on inference performance, infrastructure costs, capacity, and risk.
• Recruit, develop, and lead a high-performing infrastructure engineering organization as a technically hands-on leader.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software development or engineering experience, including 4+ years of engineering management experience.
• Significant experience leading infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform teams operating production systems at scale.
• Experience designing and operating highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems and multi-region architectures.
• Strong knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, EC2, networking, storage, IAM, monitoring, Terraform, and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Deep experience with MySQL operations, asynchronous architectures, observability, incident response, disaster recovery, and zero-downtime migrations.
• Experience operating latency-sensitive, high-throughput AI inference workloads and scaling infrastructure for enterprise customers with demanding security and compliance requirements.

Nice to have

• GPU inference optimization experience.
• Familiarity with Python, Django, FastAPI, and WebSockets.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on, high-impact leadership scope with direct influence on infrastructure strategy and operations.
• Cross-functional collaboration across Product, Product Engineering, AI/ML, Security, and Finance.
• Focus on building reliable, scalable, secure, developer-friendly, and cost-efficient systems.
• Equal opportunity workplace committed to diversity and inclusion.