The Director of Infrastructure and Data Engineering is a multidisciplinary role that reports to the VP of Engineering. They manage an Infrastructure team that is responsible for Cloud Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering, and Developer Productivity at Shift. They also manage a Data Engineering team that is responsible for data tools and pipelines that support all Analytics and Reporting at Shift. By mentoring, recruiting, and guiding their staff, they will ensure that Infrastructure and Data services at Shift are delivered using modern techniques and to a high degree of quality.

What You Will Do:

• Manage the infrastructure team and data engineering teams.
• Mentor, recruit and guide staff to ensure infrastructure and data services are delivered using modern techniques.
• Be a role model and Champion for team and cross-functional collaboration
• Demonstrate professionalism by example and empathy for other functional groups within the business.

What You Will Bring:

• 5+ years of experience managing teams supporting production cloud infrastructure (must include AWS and Kubernetes).
• 5+ years of experience mentoring engineers in DevOps disciplines of Cloud Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering, and Developer Productivity.
• 10+ years of experience managing Linux-based Server Operating Systems.
• 5+ years of experience managing environments using Infrastructure- and Configuration-as-Code (Terraform/CloudFormation/etc).
• 5+ years of experience managing large high-performance databases and data processing jobs for business-critical reporting applications.
• 5+ years of experience managing costs related to cloud providers and SaaS tools, preferably including AWS Reserved and Spot Instances.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to communicate our long term technical strategy to partners across the business.
• Thorough understanding of web service fundamentals, such as HTTP/S, SSL/TLS, TCP/UDP, caching, DNS and load balancing.
• Expert knowledge of monitoring systems including host/OS metrics, logging, and web application performance, using SaaS products such as DataDog, StackDriver, etc.
• PostgreSQL Database performance tuning and high-availability experience.
• Experience working collaboratively with software engineers on web-apps, leveraging your familiarity with MVC frameworks, build pipelines and deployment strategies.
• Experience establishing and facilitating agile methodologies to plan and track work across multiple teams.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Experience designing data infrastructure to handle PII to meet privacy regulations and data security concerns.
• Production experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience managing tooling for Machine Learning models and infrastructure for ML Training.

About Shift

We’re a tech company who has built an e-commerce marketplace for customers to buy and sell used cars, all while having an experience that is fun, fair and accessible.  We’ve set out to transform a huge industry using cutting-edge technology, and bring transparency and convenience to the car buying and selling process. 

We aren’t stopping there. We bring that same transparency and convenience to car ownership too, with payments, maintenance, and insurance in one easy app.  At Shift, we’re building the tools that empower people to buy, own, and sell the cars that make life go.

Shift is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

Shift prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Shift conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.

So what does that mean?

Shift is committed to the belief that all individuals deserve uncompromising respect, and we recognize and celebrate each person’s uniqueness and individuality.  All of us together fabricate the DNA of what makes Shift such a collaborative, powerful, and authentic place to work. 

Shift is dedicated to ensuring that diversity helps our employees, customers, vendors and communities reach their full potential. We strive to maintain a diverse workforce that represents and meets the needs of our customers and the communities where we work and live.

The range posted represents the minimum of our lowest geographic market and the maximum of our highest geographic market. The geographic location of the selected candidate will determine where the offered salary falls into this range.