# Director of Engineering - infrastructure & Operations

Hiring organization: [Motive](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/motive)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/12f7beac-ba96-4a27-8f82-aa2b0430039f

Listed on Motive's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Management
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Salary: 229000 – 285000 USD per year

## Summary

This role leads the infrastructure and operations engineering organization at a fleet management software company, managing teams across SRE, data platforms, and database engineering. It suits an experienced engineering leader comfortable with cloud architecture, AI integration, and driving reliability initiatives across mission-critical systems.

_Our summary, not Motive's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analytics, Incident Management, OpenAI

## Required

- 12+ years in software or infrastructure engineering
- 5+ years leading infrastructure, SRE, or operations organizations including managing managers
- Strong systems architecture sense
- Computer Science degree or equivalent
- Cross-functional collaboration and ownership
- Deep AWS experience at scale including VPC, IAM, multi-account, core services, observability, and cost optimization
- High AI fluency with ability to evaluate and integrate LLM/AI platforms
- Vendor and partner interface experience with cost governance
- Database and data platform understanding covering OLTP and analytics
- Experience running high-reliability platforms with SLOs, incident management, and postmortems
- Track record driving engineering excellence programs
- Clear communication skills and ability to manage executive-level escalations
- Infrastructure as a product experience with roadmaps and stakeholder communication

## Nice to have

- B2B SaaS or high-reliability domain background such as payments, logistics, or safety
- Leadership of global distributed teams across time zones

Apply on Motive's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gomotive/jobs/8638784002