Kaizen Labs is redefining government technology and building solutions across parks & recreation, permitting, citizen engagement, and more. They recognize that incumbent software systems are inefficient and sometimes broken, and believe residents and public servants across America’s 85,000 government agencies deserve access to modern, trusted software. The Infrastructure Lead will be responsible for building the systems that ensure Kaizen's platform is scalable, reliable, and compliant, taking them from a scrappy early-stage setup to infrastructure that can power thousands of municipalities across the country.
Requirements
- Proven experience building 0→1 cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP strongly preferred).
- Proficiency with Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes (or equivalent cloud-native tools).
- Experience in high-compliance environments (government, healthcare, finance, or public companies).
- Strong background in observability and monitoring (Datadog, Sentry, or similar).
- Familiarity with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud strategies.
Responsibilities
- Building and owning the infrastructure that underpins our platform - scaling, load testing, developer tooling, monitoring, and hosting support for customer environments (including high-compliance environments).
- Building a modern infrastructure foundation from 0→1, starting at cloud provider setup, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes (not yet in place).
- Scaling and load testing our systems as we expand to serve larger municipalities and compliance-heavy customers.
- Owning observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog, Sentry) to provide meaningful metrics, dashboards, and alerting.
- Supporting isolated hosting environments for compliance requirements.
- Creating developer tooling and CI/CD pipelines that enable fast, reliable, and safe deployments.
- Own and consolidate our cloud footprint.
Other
- This is a hybrid role. You will be expected to join our team in person in New York City for three days a week.
- 6+ years of infrastructure or DevOps engineering experience.
- Comfortable leading projects and/or teams, or owning complex infrastructure initiatives.
- A “builder” mentality: you’ve walked into messy infra setups and transformed them into scalable, reliable systems.
- Prior experience at an early-stage company where you were the first infra hire or helped scale a small infra team.
