Tech Lead, Infrastructure

Lightfield
San Francisco, CA
Category Engineering
Job Description
Lightfield is seeking a hands-on Infrastructure Tech Lead to help scale the platform through a period of rapid growth and increasing customer demand.

Requirements

  • 8–12+ years of experience building and scaling infrastructure and production systems in high-growth environments
  • Deep expertise in infrastructure-heavy engineering (SRE, reliability, performance, scaling)
  • Strong hands-on coding ability and comfort owning critical systems end-to-end
  • Experience with Postgres performance tuning, query optimization, and scaling database-backed applications
  • Strong operational instincts: monitoring, on-call practices, debugging, and systems-level problem solving
  • Product-oriented mindset — motivated by customer-facing performance and real-world reliability
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity at an early-stage company, where priorities evolve quickly and ownership is high

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Meaningful early equity
  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • 3 weeks of PTO
  • 11 paid company holidays + we enjoy a winter holiday break
  • 3 months of paid family leave
  • Wednesdays work from home
  • Regular team dinners, events, offsites, and retreats
  • 401k plan
  • Commuter and lunch stipend
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