Expo is agentic mobile infrastructure for building, shipping, and running native apps for iOS, Android, and the web. Backed by Y Combinator and South Park Commons.
About the role
We're looking for a hands-on Director of Infrastructure to lead and scale the infrastructure systems that power our engineering and product organizations. This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for the reliability, scalability, performance, and evolution of our core infrastructure across platform engineering, data pipelines, billing systems, fleet management, and multi-cloud environments. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Scale fleet management: Scale macOS and Linux fleet management, ensuring elastic capacity, efficient resource use and reliable operations. Plan and lead multi-cloud expansion, so infrastructure keeps up as demands grow
- Contribute hands-on technical depth: Contribute to architecture, implementation and debugging alongside the team. Drive operational improvements and mentor engineers, so the technical bar rises across the team
More about this role
We're looking for a hands-on Director of Infrastructure to lead and scale the infrastructure systems that power our engineering and product organizations. This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for the reliability, scalability, performance, and evolution of our core infrastructure across platform engineering, data pipelines, billing systems, fleet management, and multi-cloud environments.
The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership, strategic vision, and excellent communication skills. They run real work through agents (swarms, automation, loops) and lead their teams to do the same by owning the trust model for what agents can perform independently, what requires human guidance, and what guardrails apply.
This is not a purely managerial role: we need a leader who can set direction while remaining close to the technology, troubleshoot complex problems, participate in on-call rotations, and execute directly alongside the team.
We're particularly interested in candidates who have built and scaled infrastructure in a small, fast-moving company and who are comfortable balancing hands-on execution with technical leadership and team...
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