Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Atticus is a company dedicated to helping individuals in crisis access life-changing aid through legal and governmental support. They are seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to define and build the infrastructure that supports their engineering teams, focusing on establishing a clear vision and improving reliability and operational foundations.

Responsibilities:

• Shaping our infrastructure roadmap — developing a clear vision for where our infra needs to go and driving progress toward it
• Building security and operational foundations — laying the groundwork for sustainable growth
• Improving reliability — reducing MTTR, establishing SLOs, bringing rigor to how we manage outages
• Empowering product teams — you'll build the platforms and tools that let them own their systems end-to-end

Requirements:

• 5+ years in infrastructure / SRE / platform engineering roles, with breadth across infra disciplines. We're looking for an infra generalist, not a deep specialist in one narrow area
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)
• Strong software engineering fundamentals. You approach infrastructure with a builder's mindset
• Technical breadth across infra domains: networking, security, observability, CI/CD, database operations, containerization. We don't expect you to be an expert in everything, just knowledgeable enough to be effective on a small team without other specialists
• Experience with consumer-facing, revenue-critical systems, though you don't need FAANG-scale experience
• You've led infrastructure evolution at a growing startup, not just maintained existing systems. Ideally on a small team (<5 infra engineers)
• You're excited by environments with little structure — where you're expected to understand the bigger picture, cut through ambiguity, and figure out what matters most