Principal Infrastructure Engineer

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.#J-18808-Ljbffr