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Head of Infrastructure

Valon· Engineering
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Remote$275k - $325kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior leadership role responsible for Valon’s Cloud Infrastructure and Developer Infrastructure, defining multi-year strategy, building and leading a high-performance infrastructure organization, and ensuring secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-conscious platform enablement for ValonOS and developer tooling.

Responsibilities

  • Define and communicate a multi-year infrastructure strategy spanning Cloud Infrastructure and Developer Infrastructure.
  • Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing organization, including engineering managers, senior technical leaders, and individual contributors.
  • Own the portfolio roadmap and investment decisions across Compute, Storage, data platforms, developer experience, CI/CD, test infrastructure, and observability.
  • Set company-wide standards for reliability, security, service ownership, incident management, developer productivity, and operational excellence.
  • Partner with executive and functional leaders to align infrastructure priorities with customer commitments, product strategy, and business goals.
  • Build the planning, review, and operating mechanisms that make progress visible and tradeoffs explicit.
  • Stay hands-on enough to guide architecture, challenge assumptions, and engage in the most important technical decisions and incidents.
  • Recruit exceptional talent, develop leaders, and create a culture of high agency, high accountability, direct feedback, and collaboration.
  • Represent infrastructure clearly to the broader company and make the organization a trusted partner to every engineering team.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years leading multiple teams, engineering managers, or a substantial infrastructure organization.
  • Experience owning a broad infrastructure portfolio that includes cloud platforms, compute, storage, databases, SRE, developer infrastructure, or related domains.
  • Strong technical depth in distributed systems and a track record of operating critical production systems at scale.
  • Experience setting strategy across both production infrastructure and developer experience, or the ability to credibly lead leaders in both areas.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud providers such as AWS or GCP, container orchestration, data stores, CI/CD, and observability.
  • Excellent organizational judgment: ability to sequence foundational investments, make pragmatic tradeoffs, and connect technical work to business outcomes.
  • Demonstrated success hiring, developing, and retaining strong teams through periods of rapid growth and change.
  • Clear, concise communication and the ability to build alignment across engineering, product, security, data, and operations.

Skills

Required:Infrastructure leadershipCloud platforms (AWS or GCP)Distributed systemsDevOps / CI/CDSecurity and reliability

Benefits

  • Compensation: competitive salary with a meaningful stake in the company via equity, and 401(k) plan.
  • Health & well-being: comprehensive medical, dental, & vision benefits.
  • Free Food: daily lunch and dinner through Forkable for in-office team members.
  • Commuter benefits: pre-tax deductions for public transit, rideshares, and parking.
  • Grow together: orientation for onboarding and learning & development opportunities including regular review cycles with 360-degree feedback.
  • Play together: quarterly budgets for team and company outings.
  • Generous time off: flexible paid time off with no annual limit, sick days, and 11 company holidays.
  • Baby bonding time: 12 weeks of fully paid leave for birthing and non-birthing parents.
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Valon

The AI-native operating system for mortgage servicing. Building a better foundation for the American Dream.

Mortgage servicingAI-native operating systemRegulated financeRegulated workflowsPlatformValonOS
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