Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Collective
+ Equity + Bonus
Back-office platform for self-employed people
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Back-office platform for self-employed people
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity + Bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower Businesses-of-One to succeed for the life of their business and beyond.
Role
Who you are
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience as a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, DevOps, or SRE with a proven track record of operating production cloud environments at scale
- You operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-changing environments. You can pick up a half-defined problem, define the path forward, and drive it to production without waiting for a playbook
- Cloud Platforms: Proficiency in multi-cloud operations. AWS is highly preferred; GCP is a plus
- Experience implementing infrastructure and security policy as code
- Strong software development skills, preferably in Python or another high level language
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for driving cross-team alignment. You must be able to clearly and persuasively communicate complex concepts and risks in an engineering-driven environment
- Experience mentoring engineers, leading post-incident reviews, or driving cross-team infra initiatives to completion. You're comfortable being the person other engineers ask when something breaks
- Ability to write clean, maintainable code for automation and tooling. Experience building internal tools or services to eliminate manual work is a plus
- Familiarity with foundational networking concepts and protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, VPCs, firewalls) and their application in cloud and hybrid environments
- Strong hands-on skills with Linux and command-line tools; you are comfortable using terminals and utilities to manage and debug systems efficiently
- Comfort using AI tooling as leverage for infra automation, tooling, and debugging. Bonus if you've built or contributed to AI-assisted DevOps workflows
What the job involves
- You'll join Collective's Infrastructure team, a small group that owns the platform every engineer here builds on: AWS and GCP foundations, CI/CD, IaC, observability, secrets management, and identity. We partner with product engineering to unblock shipping, with the security team to keep the platform safe, and with the AI Platform team on the infra behind Collective's growing AI investments
- As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer on this team, you'll pave new paths, test recovery plans, and manage quiet, stable systems. You'll be the person justifying design choices with production experience and the one others turn to when a system needs rethinking
- Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform to provision, deploy, and manage cloud resources on AWS and GCP as well as other SaaS vendors
- Embed security best practices into the infrastructure by enforcing zero-trust architecture principles like least privilege and identity-based access to protect systems and data
- Build scalable, reliable, and cost-effective systems that hold up as Collective grows
- Develop and test disaster recovery plans
- Own the CI/CD system engineering teams ship on. Set standards, drive reliability and speed improvements, and mentor teams on best practices
- Reduce operational toil across the platform through automation, leveraging AI tooling where it accelerates safe, high-quality work
- Work closely with product engineering teams to understand application needs and translate them into scalable infrastructure solutions
- Own the observability stack (monitoring, logging, alerting) and use it to proactively identify and remediate performance bottlenecks
- Participate in the on-call rotation to respond to outages, recover systems, own incident response and post-mortem
- Stay current with emerging technologies and best practices in Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, and Platform Engineering
- Our stack:
- Cloud: AWS (EC2, IAM, VPC, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, RDS, Elasticache, Opensearch), GCP (BigQuery)
- Monitoring/Observability: Datadog, Sentry, Amplitude
- Github, GHA
- IAC: Terraform, HCP
- Security tooling
- Codebase: Python/Typescript/React
Our take
Collective is tapping into the quickly growing freelance and self employed workforce with a back office platform which provides full support for accounting, tax, bookkeeping and other financial admin, essentially removing the burden from the business owner entirely.
Launched in 2020, Collective didn’t take long to receive major backing from General Catalyst as well as Ashton Kutcher’s VC fund Sound Ventures. It’s put it to great use too, with an employee headcount now in the hundreds, showing just how fast the startup is growing.
Interestingly, Collective isn’t available for any and all subscribers. Rather, it only allows applicants to become members if Collective’s advisors know they can offer real value. It may seem a counter-intuitive move, but it keeps the company’s success rate high.
The company's latest funding round, raised in 2023, supports the accelerated implementation of AI across its operations as well as expanded onboarding efforts. Collective also continues to broaden the value of its offering, for example wit the launch of an AI accounting platform for one-person operations.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$50m
EARLY VC
May 2021
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $78.7m
Company benefits
- Flex work setup
- Flexible PTO
- 14 paid holidays
- Paid parental leave (16 weeks)
- Health, dental, and vision
- Additional medical coverage
- 401k plan
- Equity
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Hooman Radfar
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously co-founded and was CEO of AddThis (acquired by Oracle), and was a founding partner at early stage startup accelerator Expa.
Ugur Kaner
(Board Member & Co-Founder)Was CPO before taking on an Advisor role. Joined YC startup in 2015 MBX as VP of Product Design, building multi-brand beauty and personal care startup Memebox. Helped to build the now public Udemy, and has worked with Google, Angry Birds, and Nokia.
Bugra Akcay
(Board Member & Co-Founder)Co-founded and was CTO of Hike, an accounting and tax platform for freelancers which preluded Collective. Was also the co-founder and CTO of Cici Meze, an enterprise food informatics company.
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