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# Infrastructure Engineering Manager

- **Company:** ZIPS
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $250,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon S3, Software as a Service, Relational Databases, Disaster Recovery, Distributed Data Store, Amazon DynamoDB, Operational Databases, Software Engineering, Amazon ElastiCache, Caching, Data Layers, Information Technology
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/engineering-manager-online-storage-sf-theziphq-8759568

## About the Role

* 6+ years of software engineering experience.
 * 2+ years of experience managing teams of 6 or more engineers.
 * Hands-on experience building or operating production data infrastructure at scale: relational databases, caching, distributed storage, or search.
 * Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical field.

Nice to have

 * Experience in SaaS or FinTech industry.
 * Experience bootstrapping and landing large scale 0->1 projects.
 * Experience working at a small company with diverse responsibilities.
 * Track record of scaling a team through hiring.

The salary range for this role is $250,000 - $300,000. The salary for this position is determined based on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant experience, education, or particular skills and expertise.

## Description

We're seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineering Manager to lead our Online Storage team. The Online Storage team is a foundational infrastructure team within Zip's Engineering organization. We own and operate the core storage, search, and permissions infrastructure that powers everything Zip's product teams build - spanning relational databases (Aurora RDS), caching layers (Elasticache, MemoryDB), DynamoDB, S3, OpenSearch, and the permissions framework that ensures every user sees exactly the data they're authorized to see., * Drive the multi-cell scalability program (data isolation, regional redistribution, cell provisioning) partnering closely with Core Infra.

 * Own reliability and disaster recovery for all core storage systems (Aurora, Elasticache/MemoryDB, DynamoDB, S3, OpenSearch) to defined RPO/RTO targets.
 * Set technical direction for the unified search platform and the permissions-system consolidation.
 * Operate as an internal platform partner: triage product-team needs, set guardrails, balance their velocity against platform stability.
 * Own operational excellence: on-call health, incident response, observability for the data layer.


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