Tech Lead, Infra (Infra Core)

Overview

As Infrastructure Tech Lead at Deel, you shape the core platform that hundreds of engineers rely on daily. You’ll guide the technical direction, design scalable infrastructure, and stay hands-on with architecture and code. Your work enables rapid, global service provisioning, secure operations, and observable systems at scale. You’ll join a high-velocity, engineering-led team that values execution and cross-functional collaboration. This role offers the chance to influence how we build and operate the platform behind Deel’s global workforce.

Retribuzione / Benefits Stock grant opportunities

Flexible working office membership

Total rewards programs

Inclusive, diverse workplace

Competitive pay aligned with market

Disability accommodations

Responsabilità Design and implement infrastructure patterns and primitives on Kubernetes to support a growing microservices ecosystem

Shape roadmap and act as technical lead, balancing architecture, delivery, and developer experience

Lead incident response, automate toil, and reduce noise with engineering solutions

Automate service provisioning, database setups, and environment registrations for rapid deployments

Drive edge routing, traffic management, and migrations of large-scale backend workloads

Oversee secrets management and security posture, including zero-downtime rotations

Evolve the observability stack with OpenTelemetry and scalable logging

Develop real-time platform capabilities (e.g., WebSocket workloads) and agentic infrastructure

Collaborate with DevOps, DBA, InfoSec, and product engineering to align on goals

Represent infra domain in architectural discussions and resolve multi-team challenges

Requisiti fondamentali 10+ years of professional software engineering experience

5+ years focused on infrastructure (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps, CNCF landscape)

Proficiency in Node.js/JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, or Python

2+ years as a technical lead with distributed, cross-timezone teams

Experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures (Kafka, NATS)

Kubernetes architecture and operational experience (operators/controllers, platform primitives)

Relational databases experience (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and scaling within platforms

Proven delivery track record from inception to shipping

Excellent written and oral communication skills

Bias for action and decision documentation

Strong communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Decision-making under ambiguity

Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)

Helm and GitOps

CNCF technologies