Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure

As a Senior Engineering Manager of Cloud Infrastructure at Mesh, you own and evolve the technical foundation that powers everything the company builds. This is a hands-on leadership role where you write Terraform, operate AKS clusters in production, and lead a team of infrastructure engineers. You bridge the gap between deep technical work and strategic leadership, showing up to incidents with diagnosis and driving meaningful improvements across the engineering organization.

What you'll do

• Own and evolve Azure cloud infrastructure with a focus on reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Drive infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform and ideally Terragrunt, helping the team move toward a code-first approach to everything you build and operate.
• Lead container operations on Kubernetes and help the team mature how you deploy and run services.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices that let engineers ship with confidence.
• Build out and maintain data infrastructure in the cloud: Fabric, databases, and warehouses.
• Own incident response from diagnosis through postmortem, and drive meaningful improvement after every significant event.
• Partner with security engineering to harden infrastructure and build toward compliance goals.
• Build AI-augmented observability to experiment and remediate issues faster.
• Lead, grow, and hire a team of infrastructure engineers, creating clarity, removing blockers, and building a culture of ownership.
• Collaborate closely with Backend, Product, and Security teams on architecture decisions and major launches.
• Set the standard for observability and reliability across the engineering organization.

What you bring

• 8+ years of engineering experience with meaningful time managing cloud infrastructure teams, operating well at both technical depth and leadership altitude simultaneously.
• Deep, hands-on cloud infrastructure experience. Azure is Mesh's primary cloud; direct Azure experience is a plus, but strong engineers on AWS or GCP excited to go deep on Azure are equally competitive.
• Hands-on DevOps experience end-to-end: CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Terragrunt preferred), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and deployment and release practices that let engineers ship with confidence.
• A serious security mindset: AuthN/AuthZ, network isolation, secrets management, zero-trust, and a track record hardening infrastructure in production at a company where the stakes were high.
• A record of driving developer productivity improvements that engineering teams actually noticed through internal platforms, toolchain automation, deployment speed, or developer experience initiatives.
• Active use of AI tools in your own work and structured adoption on your team, not just abstract encouragement but changed how work gets done.
• Experience leading distributed teams across time zones, keeping remote engineers aligned, accountable, and energized without unnecessary synchronous overhead.
• Comfort thriving in ambiguity, moving fast when the picture is incomplete, and adjusting quickly when priorities shift. You have done this at a startup or high-growth company.

Nice to have

• Payments or crypto domain knowledge.
• QA/testing infrastructure experience.

What we offer

• Base salary of $246,000-$282,000 USD, adjusted for geographic location outside New York or San Francisco, plus equity and benefits.
• Competitive equity that grows as you and the company grow.
• Comprehensive health coverage for you and your family.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Dedicated budget for courses, conferences, and certifications.
• Remote-friendly work with the flexibility to work from wherever you are most productive.
• Top-tier tools and equipment to do exceptional work.
• In-office expectations: at least 40% of the time (approximately two days per week) if based in San Francisco, New York, or Bangalore hubs. Certain roles may have additional in-office requirements.

About Mesh

Mesh enables consumers to pay and be paid with any asset by making crypto payments reliable, useful, and ubiquitous. The company combines a powerful orchestration engine with a seamless consumer app to unlock liquidity for the world. Backed by SBI, Money Forward, Paradigm, Dragonfly, Galaxy, and PayPal Ventures, Mesh is building the infrastructure for the next era of the global economy.