Engineering Manager - Infrastructure
Your Role & Mission
As an Engineering Manager for the Infrastructure team, you’ll lead the engineers responsible for keeping Apollo’s systems fast, reliable, and scalable as we serve millions of daily users and process billions of data points. You’ll work at the intersection of platform engineering, SRE, observability, and developer productivity, ensuring that our foundation can support Apollo’s AI-native evolution and rapid growth.
You will:
Build and lead a world-class infrastructure team focused on reliability, scalability, and performance.
Report directly to the CTO, and partner closely with Product, Data, and AI Platform leaders to ensure the underlying systems enable fast, safe, and confident iteration.
Drive best-in-class engineering practices for production uptime, performance, CI/CD, observability, incident management, and cost optimization.
Foster a culture of excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement — where engineers are empowered to innovate and ship fearlessly.
Help define Apollo’s next-generation infrastructure strategy — from cloud architecture to developer experience and AI-driven automation.
Daily Adventures and Responsibilities
Lead, coach, and grow a distributed team of high-impact Infrastructure Engineers. You are expected to spend roughly 30% of the time as an IC.
Partner with senior engineering leadership on strategic initiatives such as cloud migration, infrastructure scaling, platform reliability, and cost efficiency.
Define and implement modern operational excellence practices, including SLOs, error budgets, incident reviews, and performance monitoring.
Guide technical decision-making across key areas like Kubernetes, GCP, observability, networking, CI/CD, and IaC (Terraform, Ansible).
Collaborate with AI, Data, and Product Engineering teams to ensure infrastructure scalability for ML and AI-native workloads.
Run effective 1:1s, career development conversations, and quarterly performance reviews.
Support recruiting efforts to attract top engineering talent across time zones.
Competencies
You think in systems and love scaling reliability through automation, not headcount.
You’re equally comfortable talking about incident response policies as you are Terraform modules or service mesh architecture.
You build psychological safety within teams and help engineers grow through mentorship and clear accountability.
You communicate crisply, document thoughtfully, and drive alignment across distributed, cross-functional teams.
You embody Apollo’s values of Ownership, Integrity, Curiosity, Excellence, Teamwork, and Fun.
Skills & Relevant Experience
5+ years of hands-on software or infrastructure engineering experience.
2+ years of experience leading teams of senior and staff-level engineers in platform, SRE, or infrastructure domains.
Proven ability to design and operate large-scale distributed systems in cloud environments (preferably GCP or AWS).
Expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ubuntu, and CI/CD pipelines.
Familiarity with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Datadog, NewRelic) and performance tuning.
Strong grounding in networking, security, and reliability principles.
Experience managing infrastructure costs, availability SLAs, and high-throughput systems at scale.
Bonus: Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, data pipelines, MongoDB, Ruby on Rails, Ansible, or ElasticSearch
Why You’ll Love Working at Apollo
At Apollo, we’re driven by a shared mission: to help our customers unlock their full revenue potential. That starts with a reliable, scalable, and innovative foundation — built by teams like Infrastructure.
You’ll have:
Autonomy & Impact: Lead a mission-critical domain powering the growth of a top SaaS company.
A Learning Culture: Work alongside brilliant engineers, experiment with emerging AI-driven DevOps tools, and stay at the cutting edge of cloud-native practices.
Remote-First Flexibility: Collaborate across time zones while maintaining balance and focus.
A High-Performance Team: Ownership, urgency, and support — we win and grow together.
If you’re ready to lead Infrastructure for one of the fastest-scaling SaaS companies on the planet, join us.
#LI-SD1
The listed Pay Range reflects base salary range, except for sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ('OTE') range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commission/sales bonus targets and annual base salary for the role. This pay range may be inclusive of several career levels at Apollo and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.
Additional benefits for this role may include equity; company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; at least 10 paid holidays per year, flex PTO, and parental leave; employee assistance program and wellbeing benefits; global travel coverage; life/AD&D/STD/LTD insurance; FSA/HSA and medical, dental, and vision benefits.
Annual Pay Range
$195,000—$285,000 USD
About the job
Apply for this position
Engineering Manager - Infrastructure
Your Role & Mission
As an Engineering Manager for the Infrastructure team, you’ll lead the engineers responsible for keeping Apollo’s systems fast, reliable, and scalable as we serve millions of daily users and process billions of data points. You’ll work at the intersection of platform engineering, SRE, observability, and developer productivity, ensuring that our foundation can support Apollo’s AI-native evolution and rapid growth.
You will:
Build and lead a world-class infrastructure team focused on reliability, scalability, and performance.
Report directly to the CTO, and partner closely with Product, Data, and AI Platform leaders to ensure the underlying systems enable fast, safe, and confident iteration.
Drive best-in-class engineering practices for production uptime, performance, CI/CD, observability, incident management, and cost optimization.
Foster a culture of excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement — where engineers are empowered to innovate and ship fearlessly.
Help define Apollo’s next-generation infrastructure strategy — from cloud architecture to developer experience and AI-driven automation.
Daily Adventures and Responsibilities
Lead, coach, and grow a distributed team of high-impact Infrastructure Engineers. You are expected to spend roughly 30% of the time as an IC.
Partner with senior engineering leadership on strategic initiatives such as cloud migration, infrastructure scaling, platform reliability, and cost efficiency.
Define and implement modern operational excellence practices, including SLOs, error budgets, incident reviews, and performance monitoring.
Guide technical decision-making across key areas like Kubernetes, GCP, observability, networking, CI/CD, and IaC (Terraform, Ansible).
Collaborate with AI, Data, and Product Engineering teams to ensure infrastructure scalability for ML and AI-native workloads.
Run effective 1:1s, career development conversations, and quarterly performance reviews.
Support recruiting efforts to attract top engineering talent across time zones.
Competencies
You think in systems and love scaling reliability through automation, not headcount.
You’re equally comfortable talking about incident response policies as you are Terraform modules or service mesh architecture.
You build psychological safety within teams and help engineers grow through mentorship and clear accountability.
You communicate crisply, document thoughtfully, and drive alignment across distributed, cross-functional teams.
You embody Apollo’s values of Ownership, Integrity, Curiosity, Excellence, Teamwork, and Fun.
Skills & Relevant Experience
5+ years of hands-on software or infrastructure engineering experience.
2+ years of experience leading teams of senior and staff-level engineers in platform, SRE, or infrastructure domains.
Proven ability to design and operate large-scale distributed systems in cloud environments (preferably GCP or AWS).
Expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ubuntu, and CI/CD pipelines.
Familiarity with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Datadog, NewRelic) and performance tuning.
Strong grounding in networking, security, and reliability principles.
Experience managing infrastructure costs, availability SLAs, and high-throughput systems at scale.
Bonus: Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, data pipelines, MongoDB, Ruby on Rails, Ansible, or ElasticSearch
Why You’ll Love Working at Apollo
At Apollo, we’re driven by a shared mission: to help our customers unlock their full revenue potential. That starts with a reliable, scalable, and innovative foundation — built by teams like Infrastructure.
You’ll have:
Autonomy & Impact: Lead a mission-critical domain powering the growth of a top SaaS company.
A Learning Culture: Work alongside brilliant engineers, experiment with emerging AI-driven DevOps tools, and stay at the cutting edge of cloud-native practices.
Remote-First Flexibility: Collaborate across time zones while maintaining balance and focus.
A High-Performance Team: Ownership, urgency, and support — we win and grow together.
If you’re ready to lead Infrastructure for one of the fastest-scaling SaaS companies on the planet, join us.
#LI-SD1
The listed Pay Range reflects base salary range, except for sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ('OTE') range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commission/sales bonus targets and annual base salary for the role. This pay range may be inclusive of several career levels at Apollo and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.
Additional benefits for this role may include equity; company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; at least 10 paid holidays per year, flex PTO, and parental leave; employee assistance program and wellbeing benefits; global travel coverage; life/AD&D/STD/LTD insurance; FSA/HSA and medical, dental, and vision benefits.
Annual Pay Range
$195,000—$285,000 USD