Director of Platform & Infrastructure

Summary

Join Vesta, a next-generation system of record transforming the mortgage market, and become our Backend Platform Leader. You will work closely with the CTO to define Vesta's long-term technical strategy, focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance. This role involves managing and growing a team of platform and infrastructure engineers, defining and executing platform roadmaps, and establishing best practices. You will also be responsible for maintaining a high engineering security posture and managing the Vesta Public API. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience with distributed systems, relational databases, and managing engineering teams, along with expertise in various technologies like C#/.NET, Kubernetes, and AWS. This is a remote-first position with a physical hub in the Bay Area.

Requirements

• 5+ years working with distributed systems and relational databases at scale, with some portion directly optimizing for performance and scalability
• 3+ years managing and growing platform or infrastructure engineering teams
• Experience building B2B enterprise software
• C# / .NET platform / EF Core
• Kubernetes
• PostgreSQL — especially if the cluster was sharded
• Kafka
• OpenSearch / ElasticSearch
• Redis / Valkey
• AWS

Responsibilities

• Managing, coaching, and growing a team of platform and infrastructure engineers
• Define and execute on a platform roadmap for maintaining the scalability and reliability needs of Vesta
• Define and evangelize best practices and technical standards to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of other product engineering teams
• Lead forecasting and budgeting for ensuring proper capacity planning to support the business’ needs
• Own the security and compliance posture for all platform and infrastructure services, including audits, risk assessments, and regulatory requirements (e.g. SOC 2)
• Manage the development and maintenance of the Vesta Public API
• Being an advocate for engineering excellence

Benefits

• Robust medical, vision, & dental coverage (~100% of employee premiums covered)
• FSA plan offering
• 401(K) plan offering
• Meaningful parental leave - 16 weeks fully paid for all new parents, birthing & non-birthing parents (applies to adoptions as well!)
• Remote-first culture with a physical hub in the bay area!
• Generous Work From Anywhere & Wellness Benefits
• Monthly cell & wifi stipend
• Monthly Doordash benefits
• Open & encouraged flexible time off
• Company offsites to get to know the team!