Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

Kikoff's infrastructure team builds the systems that enable engineering teams to move quickly without sacrificing reliability, security, or cost discipline. The team owns five connected areas: Observability, Developer Productivity, Compute Infrastructure, Networking and Storage, and Data Infrastructure.

As Engineering Manager, you will share leadership of Infrastructure and initially lead a focused group of engineers within the team. 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.

This is a player-coach role. You will stay close to the code, architecture, incidents, and people while senior ICs retain clear technical ownership in their domains. You should be comfortable reviewing code and designs, helping make architecture decisions, and contributing directly when useful. 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.