PayJoy
Sr Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA · Senior
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About the role
- PayJoy is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and we welcome and encourage people of all backgrounds.
- PayJoy Principles Finance for the next billion * Ownership * Break Through Walls * Live Communication * Transparency & Directness * Focus on Scale * Work-Life Balance * Embrace Diversity * Speed * Active Listening
Responsibilities
- Drive delivery of large-scale infrastructure initiatives while balancing reliability, scalability, security, operational excellence, customer impact, and cost optimization.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, Compliance, Finance, and Executive leadership to prioritize investments, manage technical risk, and align infrastructure capabilities with business objectives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 12+ years of software engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or related technical experience.
- 4+ years of engineering management experience
- Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and modern cloud architecture patterns.
- Experience designing reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure for production environments.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, networking, storage, security, observability, and operational excellence principles.
- Experience balancing technical debt, infrastructure investment, risk reduction, and feature delivery to maximize long-term business value.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and business leaders and communicate tradeoffs clearly.
- Proven ability to recruit, coach, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering managers, staff engineers, and senior individual contributors.
- Proven experience building, operating, and scaling highly available cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, or developer infrastructure.
- Strong background in DevOps practices, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD systems, automation, and platform engineering.
- Demonstrated success leading organization-wide technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams and stakeholders.
- Strong incident management and operational leadership experience, including escalation management, post-incident reviews, and systemic reliability improvements.
- PayJoy is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and we welcome and encourage people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. PayJoy Principles Finance for the next billion * Ownership * Break Through Walls * Live Communication * Transparency & Directness * Focus on Scale * Work-Life Balance * Embrace Diversity * Speed * Active Listening
Compensation
- $272k-$290k
Company info
- About PayJoy PayJoy, a Public Benefit Corporation, is a mission-first credit provider dedicated to helping under-served customers in emerging markets to achieve financial stability and success.
- Our patented technology for secured credit provides an on-ramp for new customers to enter the credit system.
- Through PayJoy's point-of-sale financing and card offerings, customers gain access to a modern quality of life.
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