Kikoff
Engineering Manager, Infrastructure
San Francisco · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$307k-$352kDetected 63 days ago
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About the role
- You will stay close to the code, architecture, incidents, and people while senior ICs retain clear technical ownership in their domains.
- Strong ICs should respect your technical judgment because you understand the work, not because you report on it.
- This does not mean being the primary engineer across all five areas.
Responsibilities
- With record revenue growth in 2025 and a unicorn valuation, we've built a suite of products that help millions of people build credit, access liquidity, and save money.
- Join us if you want to build something meaningful and help millions of people move forward financially.
- We value extreme ownership, clear communication, a strong sense of craftsmanship, and the desire to create lasting work and work relationships.
- You will support their growth, help turn ambiguous problems into durable systems, and run infrastructure as a product for Kikoff engineers.
- The team works across five connected areas, but you will not be expected to manage every engineer or personally own every domain on day one.
- You will partner with senior ICs and Infrastructure leadership, taking on broader scope as the team grows.
- AI is increasing the amount of code and change moving through our systems. You will help build a platform that can absorb that growth without creating more incidents, unsustainable cost, or a team that depends on heroics.
- You will help build a platform that can absorb that growth without creating more incidents, unsustainable cost, or a team that depends on heroics.
- Lead, coach, and develop a focused group of experienced infrastructure engineers, expanding your scope over time.
Nice to have
- Depth in one or more of observability, cloud compute, networking, storage, data infrastructure, developer tooling, or security.
- Experience running internal platforms as a product in fintech or another regulated environment, including measuring adoption and customer outcomes through a period of rapid growth.
- We do not cut corners when they matter, and we do not over-engineer when they do not.
- We make tradeoffs deliberately.
- A mature team knows the difference between a risk worth taking and one that is not.
- We look at the data, understand the mechanics behind it, and use that evidence to make better decisions.
- We know the company has benefited from timing, circumstance, and the right people showing up.
- A note on applying: We know great candidates sometimes hold back if they don't meet every qualification listed.
Compensation
- $307,000 - $352,000 USD
Company info
- Hire engineers who can work across domains, take ownership of production outcomes, and earn the trust of their peers.
- Stay close enough to the work to coach from evidence. Review code and designs, challenge weak decisions, make architecture calls, and unblock the team directly when needed.
- Partner with senior ICs who own technical direction and execution within their domains. Within your initial scope, establish clear ownership, backup coverage, growth paths, and a sustainable on-call model.
- Help connect technical direction across observability, developer productivity, compute, networking, storage, and data infrastructure.
- Uphold high engineering standards for reliability, testing, safe deployments, security, and maintainability.
- Make clear tradeoffs between speed, reliability, cost, and long-term operating complexity.
- Lead through incidents and unfamiliar failure modes, then make sure the system is better after service is restored.
- Understand what Kikoff engineers need and turn that into a focused roadmap with clear priorities.
- Build paved paths and self-service systems that teams choose because they are faster and safer than one-off solutions.
- Unblock teams using the fastest responsible path, then turn recurring friction into automation or a durable platform capability.
- Measure outcomes for internal customers, including delivery speed, reliability, cost, toil, and on-call load.
- Make sure critical services have an owner, a backup, an SLO, actionable alerts, a dashboard, a runbook, capacity expectations, and a tested recovery path.
- Use service health, incidents, delivery data, cost, and customer feedback to decide what the team works on next.
Equal opportunity
- Kikoff Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
- We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
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