Director, Engineering - Infrastructure
Federato
WorldwideremotePosted 29 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- $250,000 - $275,000 a year
- 8+ years of engineering experience required
- Stock options included in compensation package
Role overview
Federato is on a mission to defend the right to efficient, equitable insurance for all, enabling insurers to provide affordable coverage for modern challenges like climate crisis and cyber-attacks. As the only AI-native platform spanning the full policy lifecycle, Federato integrates insurers' unique goals, strategies, and rules into workflows, empowering underwriters to make better decisions faster. The Infrastructure team powers this platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and cost-efficiency. The Director of Infrastructure will lead the Infrastructure/SRE and Security functions, shape long-term technical strategy, and foster a high-performing engineering culture while partnering with Engineering, Product, and Customer teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow the Infrastructure organization, overseeing both the SRE/Infrastructure and Security teams while fostering a high-performing engineering culture.
- Partner with senior technical leaders to evolve the cloud infrastructure, improving platform reliability, scalability, developer productivity, and operational efficiency.
- Drive the team's roadmap and execution, proactively identifying opportunities to mature processes, improve delivery, and reduce operational risk.
- Represent the Infrastructure organization with executive leadership and customers, serving as a trusted technical leader internally and externally.
- Remain technically engaged by reviewing architecture, providing technical guidance, and occasionally contributing code when appropriate.
Requirements
- 8+ years of engineering experience with at least 5 years leading high-performing infrastructure, platform, SRE, or DevOps engineering teams.
- Experience managing senior and Staff-level engineers while creating an environment where experienced technical leaders can thrive.
- Strong background building and operating cloud infrastructure for B2B enterprise SaaS products, ideally within high-growth startup environments.
- Able to balance strategic leadership with technical credibility, including participating in architectural reviews and technical discussions.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills with experience partnering across engineering, executive leadership, and customer-facing teams.
Nice to have
- Experience leading both Infrastructure and Security organizations.
- Experience scaling engineering teams through periods of rapid company growth.
- Proven success driving cloud cost optimization initiatives while improving platform reliability and performance.
- Experience building operational excellence through improved engineering processes, incident management, and reliability practices.
Benefits
- Total compensation package includes stock options, benefits, and additional perks.
Additional details
- Federato is the only AI-native platform that spans the full policy lifecycle and changes the way insurance work gets done.
- Better decisioning is built-in, not bolted on: insurers' unique portfolio goals, strategies, rules, and appetite are part of the workflow so underwriters win the right deals, faster.
- From the moment a submission hits an underwriter’s inbox, AI is put to work, triaging submissions with a focus on high-appetite business, delivering real-time feedback on the portfolio, and consolidating workflows into a single proven system.
- Federato drives better business outcomes.
- Our vision is understood and well funded by those behind Salesforce, Veeva, Zoom, Box, etc.
- Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate location, experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.
- Here at Federato, your capabilities are important, but culture fit is essential. We move fast, are eager to listen to our users, take a first principles approach to solving problems, and value learning and the ability to change our minds. Most importantly, we're here to have fun. Our ability to make a difference starts with our people. We would love to work with you!
- We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.
- We will provide reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation at
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