Director of Infrastructure

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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2 - 10 employees

Founded 2018

💸 Finance

🤝 B2B

Finance • B2B

650 is a global venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, Tokyo, and Zurich that backs early-stage startups and supports follow-on/co-investments and cross-border expansion. With roots dating back to 2013, 650 emphasizes conviction-driven, selective investments and leverages its network of general partners and venture partners to source deals, shape teams, and help portfolio companies attract follow-on capital and international partners. The firm deploys capital from seed through later rounds, focuses on high IRR (Fund II targets >25% IRR, with a specific opportunistic focus on Japanese innovation for international impact), and prioritizes enabling sustainable growth and global expansion for founders.

📋 Description

• Define infrastructure strategy and execution through roadmaps and standards • Set priorities and balance long-term infrastructure work against operational needs • Own macOS and Linux fleets, developer infrastructure, code review systems, and provisioning • Build automation and configuration management systems • Run observability and lifecycle management across infrastructure • Operate data pipelines and data engineering systems • Build and operate billing infrastructure • Scale macOS and Linux fleet management and plan multi-cloud expansion • Lead reliability, performance, availability, incident response, and troubleshooting • Join on-call rotations alongside the team • Contribute to architecture, implementation, debugging, and operational improvements • Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar • Partner with engineering and product to communicate strategy, trade-offs, risks, and progress • Deliver elastic compute across multiple clouds and regions for builds, CI, and Simulators • Manage capacity planning, cost per minute, launches, and peak usage • Find, evaluate, and build or acquire data center warehouses for Mac and Linux fleets starting next year • Translate business needs into executable infrastructure plans • Communicate gaps, timelines, cost/speed/risk trade-offs, and changes to executives, engineers, and customers • Build secure, reliable platform tooling and paved paths for product teams and agents • Improve engineering velocity by identifying and removing cross-team bottlenecks

🎯 Requirements

• Strong depth in at least one low-level area: OS, cloud, or Kubernetes • Ability to drop into any infrastructure layer and fix complex issues • Track record of leading infrastructure initiatives while remaining directly involved in execution, including writing code, debugging systems, and resolving operational challenges • Strong experience managing and scaling Linux and macOS fleets, including provisioning, automation, configuration management, reliability, and lifecycle operations • Significant experience building scalable cloud infrastructure, including elastic capacity and resource utilization • Multiple cloud environments is a strong plus • Familiarity with developer infrastructure, code review systems, and internal platforms • Ability to lead across data pipelines, billing systems, and other business-critical services • Strong technical judgment across multiple domains • Significant experience with on-call rotations, incident management, root-cause analysis, monitoring, and production reliability improvement • Ability to anticipate infrastructure needs, set technical direction, prioritize, and communicate decisions and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Experience thriving in a lean, fast-moving environment while balancing strategic planning with direct technical execution • Comfortable adapting to changing priorities • Willingness and ability to participate in on-call rotations

🏖️ Benefits

• On-call rotation participation • Opportunity to work with agentic infrastructure, automation, and open-source/cloud services • Leadership and technical development through mentoring engineers and driving infrastructure improvements

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