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OPAQUE Systems · 10 hours ago

Sr Engineering Manager Infrastructure

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
senioritySenior Level, Lead/Staff
date10+ years exp
OPAQUE Systems is the Confidential AI company focused on solving security concerns blocking AI adoption at scale. The Sr Engineering Manager Infrastructure will lead the Infrastructure Foundation team, driving strategy and execution for infrastructure and developer tooling while ensuring systems are reliable, secure, and efficient at scale.
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Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of infrastructure, DevOps 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
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, CloudFormation, Helm and Azure marketplace automation and deployments)
Drive observability: logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing, and alerting best practices
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)

Qualification

Cloud platforms AWSCloud platforms GCPCloud platforms AzureKubernetesInfrastructure-as-CodeCI/CD pipelinesContainerizationMonitoring/observability stacksDistributed systemsCoding PythonCoding GoAgile methodologiesRecruitingHiringCompliance frameworksTeam leadership

Required

10+ years of experience in Enterprise level SaaS, Infrastructure, or DevOps 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 (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Kubernetes, containerization, and orchestration with deep understanding on how they work technically
Strong background in CI, Github actions, automation frameworks, and developer productivity tooling
Strong understanding of distributed systems in production based on Kubernetes deployments
Deep cloud experience in GCP, Azure or AWS (GCP preferred)
Deep technical expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g Terraform, Helm or similar) cloud services
Strong coding ability in Python, Go or similar
Expertise with monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, OpenTelemetry)
Knowledge of databases (SQL/NoSQL), caching systems, and data pipelines from an infra perspective
Familiar with compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO, HIPAA, PCI)
Demonstrated ability to lead by example and remain hands-on while guiding a team
Skilled at balancing business goals with technical excellence
Solid experience with JIRA and agile targeted towards infrastructure/foundation teams
Experience recruiting, hiring, and retaining world-class engineers
Must be Able to: Come into the San Francisco office 2-3 days per week

Preferred

Prior experience in startups or hyper-growth environments and confidential computing platforms a huge plus
Background in security and GenAI products, workflow related products and infrastructures supporting these products
Contributions to open-source infra/devops projects
Experience with multi-cloud strategies or hybrid cloud environments including client side deployments

Company

OPAQUE Systems

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Opaque is a startup that helps organizations analyze encrypted data in the cloud.
dateFounded in 2021
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://opaque.co/

H1B Sponsorship

OPAQUE Systems has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2024 (2)
2023 (1)
2022 (2)
2021 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$31.5M
Key Investors
Accenture VenturesWalden CatalystIntel Capital,Race Capital
2025-03-13Series Unknown
2022-06-28Series A· $22M
2021-07-07Seed· $9.5M

Leadership Team

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Raluca Ada Popa
Co-Founder & Board Director
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Rishabh Poddar
CTO & Co-Founder
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Recent News

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OPAQUE Introduces OPAQUE Studio for Building Confidential AI Agents with Verifiable Guarantees
2025-10-30
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OPAQUE Systems Joins AGNTCY to Advance Secure, Confidential AI Collaboration
2025-06-18
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OPAQUE Unveils Confidential Agents with Turnkey RAG Workflows, Reinventing Trust and Security in AI
2025-06-18
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