Sr Engineering Manager Infrastructure Hybrid; San Francisco

About OPAQUE OPAQUE is the Confidential AI company. Born from UC Berkeley’s RISELab, we solve the core challenge blocking AI adoption at scale: security concerns about data leaks or compliance violations. OPAQUE provides verifiable privacy and governance for AI so organizations can safely run models, agents, and workflows on their most sensitive data. Its Confidential AI platform delivers verifiable runtime governance backed by cryptographic proof that data, models, and agent actions remain private, governed, and compliant with approved policies throughout every AI workflow.

This extends traditional data governance tools with real runtime verification, enabling teams to responsibly deploy AI using their most valuable proprietary data, and move from pilot to production 4-5X faster. Customers and partners include Service Now, Anthropic, Encore Capital, Accenture, and leaders across high tech, financial services, insurance, and healthcare.

We are seeking an exceptionally technical and hands‑on Sr Engineering Manager to lead our Infrastructure Foundation team. This role is ideal for a senior engineer who has scaled systems in production, built resilient infrastructure platforms, and has a proven track record of managing and mentoring engineers. You will drive strategy, architecture, and execution for our infrastructure and developer tooling, ensuring our systems are reliable, secure, and efficient  role is highly technical and requires hands‑on experience in Azure, GCP or AWS and has fundamental requirements in understanding networking architectures, Kubernetes, Docker, agile, automated testing for infrastructure and team leadership.

You will lead a team of devops and platform engineers focused on kubernetes, confidential compute, cloud and building infrastructure as code platform as a primary responsibility.

• Leadership & Management
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of infrastructure, Dev Ops engineers focused on platform components based on Kubernetes
• Balance technical leadership with people management: conduct 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development planning.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with Product Growth teams, leadership, and Engineering teams to ensure alignment on foundation priorities in a dynamically changing startup environment.
• Infrastructure & Operations
• Own the design, implementation, and maintenance of cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure) and build for scale, resilience and security
• Ensure scalability, availability, and performance of systems across distributed, mission‑critical environments for production, development and sandbox environments
• Drive automation initiatives to eliminate toil and improve efficiency in infrastructure and developer workflows.
• Oversee on‑call operations, incident response, and root cause analysis, improving mean time to recovery (MTTR) and drive to key KPIs (DORA or similar)
• Manage cloud costs and drive architectures to manage and maintain cloud costs
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to accelerate development velocity while ensuring security and compliance.
• Develop and enforce Infrastructure‑as‑Code practices (Terraform, Pulumi, Cloud Formation, Helm and Azure marketplace automation and deployments).
• Drive observability: logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing, and alerting best practices.
• Understanding of security considerations in AWS, Azure, GCP and partner with Security to harden infrastructure and implement compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO
  27001, HIPAA, etc.).
• Technical Strategy & Execution
• Define long‑term infrastructure strategy for scalability and cost optimization.
• Introduce and evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and methodologies to continuously improve infra systems.
• Lead large‑scale migration projects (e.g., monolith to microservices, IaC, Kubernetes secure image production and networking architectures).

• Experience
  • 10+ years of experience in Enterprise level SaaS, Infrastructure, or Dev Ops roles, with at least 7+ years leading technical teams in a hands‑on capacity
  • Proven track record managing infrastructure at scale (multi‑region, high‑traffic, high‑availability systems).
  • Deep hands‑on expertise in cloud platforms…