Director of Infrastructure

Help define the future of hardware development by building a collaboration platform for circuit designs, enabling the next generation of smart vehicles, IoT devices, rockets, medical devices, robotics, and much more. At AllSpice, we're building the agile development environment for hardware designers, including a Git-friendly translation layer and automated CI/CD framework for native circuit designs, think GitHub/GitLab + Copilot for electronics. Read more about our latest Series A announcement here https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/23/allspices-platform-is-the-github-for-electrical-engineering-teams/! As Director of Infrastructure, you will own AllSpice's infrastructure strategy, security posture, and compliance programs while building and leading a small, high-impact team. This is a hands-on leadership role: roughly 60% management and strategic work, 40% individual contribution, reporting to the CTO. With the team at 1–2 people for the next 12 months, you need to be equally comfortable drafting a Terraform module and presenting a security review to an enterprise customer's CISO. If you are passionate about building secure, scalable infrastructure and want executive-level ownership at a fast-growing startup, this role is for you. WHAT YOU'LL DO This is a high-impact role that comes with significant autonomy and requires a self-driven, strategic, and collaborative leader. You will own our infrastructure, security, and compliance programs end-to-end. STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP AND SECURITY OWNERSHIP - Own AllSpice's security posture: policies, incident response, disaster recovery, and ongoing risk assessment - Maintain SOC 2 compliance, penetration testing, and audit processes; evaluate additional security certifications as needed - Make architectural decisions on infrastructure direction, including cloud strategy, cost optimization, high availability, and scaling - Work with legal counsel on security and data-protection matters, including DPAs, breach notification obligations, and regulatory requirements CUSTOMER AND GO-TO-MARKET COORDINATION - Partner with customer success and sales to support enterprise deployments, IT security reviews, and SSO/OIDC integrations - Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customer InfoSec questionnaires and procurement processes - Support self-hosted and GovCloud deployments for customers with ITAR, EAR, or CUI requirements PEOPLE MANAGEMENT AND TEAM BUILDING - Hire, mentor, and manage infrastructure engineers as the team grows - Set team goals, define processes, and establish on-call rotations - Participate in the on-call rotation and lead incident response when needed - Create growth paths for ICs and foster a culture of operational excellence HANDS-ON INFRASTRUCTURE - Architect and maintain production AWS environments using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code - Automate deployments, backups, and disaster recovery across cloud and self-hosted configurations - Monitor and improve performance, availability, and cost efficiency of production systems - Work closely with application developers to deploy infrastructure solutions to product problems EXAMPLE PROJECTS - Scale infrastructure for zero-downtime deployments across multi-region AWS accounts - Plan and evaluate horizontal scaling strategies for compute runtime to support growing workloads and concurrent users - Drive SOC 2 Type II renewals and maintain ongoing compliance cadence - Stress-test backup and disaster recovery procedures and publish runbooks - Identify opportunities to reduce cloud spend while improving performance - Coordinate tabletop exercises and incident response drills with the Security Incident Response Team - Lead an enterprise customer through a self-hosted deployment, including architecture review, SSO integration, and security sign-off OUR STACK - Terraform & Docker Swarm deployed to AWS for production infrastructure - Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus for observability - GitHub Actions for CI/CD - Playwright for e2e