Infrastructure Team Lead

22 hours ago

Herzliya, Israel Questar Auto Technologies Full-time
About the role
You'll lead the team that owns our cloud infrastructure and the backend services running on it. This is a hands-on leadership role: roughly [60/40] split between managing people and staying close to the architecture. You'll be accountable for how our microservices are designed, deployed, scaled, and kept alive in production.
What you'll do
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend and infrastructure engineers, including 1:1s, goal setting, performance reviews, and career development
  • Own the architecture of our AWS environment and the microservices platform running on it, from design through rollout
  • Break down large initiatives into workstreams, delegate ownership, and hold the team to delivery commitments without micromanaging
  • Run agile ceremonies (sprint planning, retros, backlog grooming) and work with product and other engineering leads on roadmap and prioritization
  • Set and enforce engineering standards: code review culture, testing, observability, incident response, on-call rotation
  • Drive cost, performance, and reliability improvements across the platform
  • Participate in hiring: interviewing, calibration, onboarding
Requirements
  • 8+ years of industry experience
  • 5+ years in a people-management or team-lead role, with a track record of leading engineering teams through full delivery cycles.
  • 3+ years of production backend development in TypeScript / Node.js. Server-side work: APIs, services, background processing, data flows. Frontend or full-stack-leaning-frontend experience does not substitute for this.
  • Proven experience designing and leading AWS solutions at scale, specifically for distributed microservices architectures. You should be able to walk us through a system you architected end to end and defend the trade-offs.
  • Deep hands-on knowledge of core AWS services: [ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS/EventBridge, API Gateway, VPC networking, IAM]
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes or ECS)
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipeline ownership
  • Strong grounding in agile methodologies and the judgment to know when to bend them
  • Experience owning production systems: monitoring, alerting, on-call, post-incident reviews
  • Excellent written and spoken English
Nice to have
  • Experience with Kafka / event-driven architecture at scale
  • Multi-region or multi-account AWS setups
  • Database performance tuning at scale (Postgres, DynamoDB)
  • Security and compliance exposure (SOC 2, ISO 27001)