Overview

As Infrastructure Tech Lead at Deel, you shape the core platform that hundreds of engineers rely on daily. You’ll guide the technical direction, design scalable infrastructure, and stay hands-on with architecture and code. Your work enables rapid, global service provisioning, secure operations, and observable systems at scale. You’ll join a high-velocity, engineering-led team that values execution and cross-functional collaboration. This role offers the chance to influence how we build and operate the platform behind Deel’s global workforce.

Retribuzione / Benefits

- Stock grant opportunities
- Flexible working office membership
- Total rewards programs
- Inclusive, diverse workplace
- Competitive pay aligned with market
- Disability accommodations

Responsabilità

- Design and implement infrastructure patterns and primitives on Kubernetes to support a growing microservices ecosystem
- Shape roadmap and act as technical lead, balancing architecture, delivery, and developer experience
- Lead incident response, automate toil, and reduce noise with engineering solutions
- Automate service provisioning, database setups, and environment registrations for rapid deployments
- Drive edge routing, traffic management, and migrations of large-scale backend workloads
- Oversee secrets management and security posture,



including zero-downtime rotations
- Evolve the observability stack with OpenTelemetry and scalable logging
- Develop real-time platform capabilities (e.g., WebSocket workloads) and agentic infrastructure
- Collaborate with DevOps, DBA, InfoSec, and product engineering to align on goals
- Represent infra domain in architectural discussions and resolve multi-team challenges

Requisiti fondamentali

- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 5+ years focused on infrastructure (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps, CNCF landscape)
- Proficiency in Node.js/JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, or Python
- 2+ years as a technical lead with distributed, cross-timezone teams
- Experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures (Kafka, NATS)
- Kubernetes architecture and operational experience (operators/controllers, platform primitives)
- Relational databases experience (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and scaling within platforms
- Proven delivery track record from inception to shipping
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Bias for action and decision documentation

- Strong communication
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Decision-making under ambiguity
- Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)
- Helm and GitOps
- CNCF technologies

📌 Tech Lead, Infra (Infra Core) (Savona)
🏢 Deel
📍 Savona