Engineering Manager Infrastructure

Job Overview

Join Checkly as an Engineering Manager for our Infrastructure team and empower developers to own and ensure application performance and reliability - from pull request to post-mortem! Checkly is the leading synthetic monitoring platform helping Engineers at Linkedin, Citibank, Render, Vercel and over 1000 other companies to build reliable products by unifying testing, monitoring and observability.

Our tech stack includes Claude Code, Vue.js, TypeScript, Golang, Postgres and ClickHouse. We host a hybrid cloud on AWS and bare metal infrastructure. We ship to prod all day, every day. We practice Agile (not scrum) and take pride in good documentation and good looking products.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Staff and Senior Engineers as a hands-on Engineering Manager
• Evolve and optimize our hybrid AWS and bare metal infrastructure to securely run sandboxed code and AI Agents with industry leading cost efficiency
• Investigate customer and infrastructure problems down to the packet capture and process memory level together with the team
• Contribute to infrastructure reliability and ensure systems stay snappy for ad hoc and scheduled workloads
• Collaborate with product engineers to improve developer experience and provide observability

Required Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building and maintaining bare metal and cloud infrastructure
• Deep Linux administration experience
• Experience managing automated infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible
• Basic or advanced Kubernetes knowledge
• Excellent spoken and written English skills
• Ability to work autonomously in a remote environment

About Checkly

Checkly is a remote-first startup that keeps things simple—low on meetings, high on productivity, and always shipping. In 2024, we raised $20M in Series B funding from Balderton, CRV, and Accel to take things to the next level.

Benefits

• Transparent salary structure
• Remote-first, flexible work hours, async-first culture
• Stock options
• 27 days of paid vacation + local public holidays
• Paid sick leave & up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave
• $1,500 learning, visiting and wellbeing budget
• Bi-annual company retreats