Infrastructure Engineering Team Lead

About the Role:

As an Infrastructure Engineering Team Lead at Medallion, you will be responsible for fostering the career growth for your direct reports, shaping our product roadmap, and driving the technical direction of your team. You will work with leaders across the company and collaborate with talented product managers, operation managers and designers.

You'll play a critical role in building and maintaining the foundational systems that power our engineering organization. You’ll work across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, security, and internal developer tooling to improve reliability, scalability, and developer velocity. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges and enabling others to ship high-quality software faster and safer.

This role reports to the Senior Director of Engineering and base compensation may land between $185,000- $240,000 depending on qualifications and experience. In addition to base salary, Medallion offers equity, bonus, and benefits as part of the total compensation package. Many factors are considered when determining pay including: market data, geographic location, skills, qualifications, experience, and level.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 3-4 engineers responsible for DevOps, infrastructure, dev tools and security
• Work with with cross-functional leads to develop and execute a roadmap for your team
• Help your direct reports grow their careers via technical mentorship, one on ones, and reviews 
• Facilitate an independent, empowered, and high-performing team culture
• Help grow the entire engineering org by interviewing and making hiring decisions
• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure with a focus on reliability, security, and performance
• Define and manage infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform to ensure consistent and auditable environments
• Develop, improve, and support CI/CD pipelines to accelerate development cycles and ensure high code quality
• Implement and maintain observability tools for monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics across distributed systems
• Lead security and compliance efforts to ensure infrastructure meets organizational and regulatory requirements
• Build and maintain internal developer tooling to streamline workflows, improve productivity, and support operational excellence
• Integrate with third-party data services and APIs to enable robust, scalable data flows and platform capabilities

Requirements:

• 6+ years of engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience in a leadership role at a start-up
• Passion for building and leading diverse and inclusive engineering teams
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
• Bias towards action and a proven track record of getting things done
• Active interest and proven experience in developing process, culture, and morale 
• Expertise of Cloud Infrastructure, databases, and infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform)
• Experience setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Strong track record with observability, monitoring, alerting
• Security/compliance experience
• Dev tooling experience
• Opinions about/experience with public API
• Experience with 3rd party data integrations

You might also have:

• Vendor management experience, cost optimization
• Extensive experience building and maintaining asynchronous processing and queuing systems (e.g. Celery, Temporal)