Y Combinator Platform & DevOps Team lead
Summary
Leads Pango's Platform & DevOps team, which owns the company's AWS organization and production environment — driving cloud architecture, reliability, CI/CD, observability, and developer self-service while growing an internal AI Portal. Hands-on stack centers on AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, infrastructure-as-code, and automation, balancing people leadership with technical contribution.
We are looking for a Platform and DevOps Team Lead. The team owns Pango's AWS organization and production environment. You will guide the next stage of our platform by expanding developer self-service, growing the Pango AI Portal, and delivering valuable AI capabilities across Pango.
***The role is open to experienced Team Leads and accomplished Tech Leads ready to move into people leadership. The balance between leadership and hands-on contribution will reflect the role's priorities and your experience.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop the Platform and DevOps team.
- Own Pango's AWS organization and drive its architecture, reliability, security, governance, and operational excellence.
- Build a focused roadmap for cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, automation, and developer self-service.
- Grow the AI Portal and advance AI-enabled capabilities across engineering and the wider organization.
- Partner with multiple R&D teams and lead delivery with our external engineering and cloud partner.
Requirements
- Proven technical leadership in complex production environments, including leading significant initiatives and guiding engineers across team boundaries.
- Deep AWS experience with business-critical systems and complex or multi-account environments- Must Requirement.
- Strong DevOps expertise across Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, automation, observability, incident response, and scripting or programming.
- Production experience with Kubernetes, ideally Amazon EKS, and sound architectural judgment.
- Experience building reusable infrastructure or platform capabilities adopted by multiple engineering teams.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to set technical direction and align engineers, stakeholders, and external partners.
Advantages
- Previous people-management experience
- Cloud cost optimization experience.
- Databases such as DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, RDS etc...
