Highspot · 1 day ago
Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Engineering Excellence
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$189K/yr - $258K/yr
15+ years expHighspot is pioneering the category that is fundamentally changing the way companies increase sales productivity. The company is seeking an experienced engineer to lead the design, development, and evolution of their cloud-based infrastructure and developer platform, focusing on enabling product teams through well-designed, scalable, and secure platform capabilities.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Enterprise SoftwareSales AutomationSales EnablementSoftware
Responsibilities
Design and build scalable platform capabilities that empower engineering teams to ship features reliably, securely, and quickly
Create and maintain developer-facing tools and paved paths (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes platforms, observability stacks, secrets management)
Implement Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps patterns to promote consistency, automation, and compliance across environments
Collaborate with product, security, and compliance stakeholders to build platform services that meet SLAs and governance standards
Drive efforts to standardize and simplify infrastructure across cloud environments (AWS, Azure), enabling secure multi-cloud operation
Lead incident response, reliability engineering, and observability improvements that ensure platform uptime and performance
Act as a technical mentor and thought leader, guiding teams on infrastructure architecture, platform adoption, and best practices
Define and execute on a strategic roadmap to evolve the internal platform in line with company growth and technology direction
Qualification
Required
15+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering, with at least 5 years focused on platform engineering or cloud infrastructure at scale
Proven success designing and operating internal developer platforms in AWS environments
Expert-level experience with Kubernetes, including provisioning, cluster lifecycle management, workload orchestration, and multi-tenant design
Strong expertise in Terraform, GitOps tools (e.g., ArgoCD), and CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Spinnaker)
Deep understanding of cloud networking, IAM, service meshes, and container orchestration at scale
Familiar with the CNCF landscape and how to leverage open-source tools to solve platform problems
Passion for developer experience. You think about tooling, abstraction, reliability, and feedback loops as core parts of platform success
Track record of technical leadership, mentoring, and influencing engineering culture at a large scale
Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
Preferred
Experience designing and operating Developer Platforms or building platform-as-a-service abstractions
Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments and associated design trade-offs
Strong cost optimization and cloud governance expertise
Benefits
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life benefits
Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
401(k) Matching with immediate vesting on employer match
Flexible PTO
8 paid holidays and 5 paid days for Annual Holiday Week
Quarterly Recharge Fridays (paid days off for mental health recharge)
18 weeks paid parental leave
Access to Coaches and Therapists through Modern Health
2 volunteer days per year
Commuting benefits
Company
Highspot
Highspot is a sales enablement platform that helps companies worldwide improve the performance of their sales teams.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$644.85MKey Investors
Tiger Global ManagementICONIQ GrowthOpenView
2022-07-01Secondary Market
2022-01-13Series F· $248M
2021-02-22Series E· $200M
Leadership Team
Robert Wahbe
CEO
David Wortendyke
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
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