Via is using technology to transform transportation around the world. From changing a single person’s daily commute to reducing humanity’s collective environmental footprint — we’ve got huge goals.

As the Director of Engineering (Infrastructure, Scalability, Reliability) at Via, you will be responsible for ensuring the overall performance, availability and resilience of Via’s infrastructure. This includes implementing and maintaining monitoring systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams to address performance bottlenecks and continuously improving the reliability and scalability of our systems and processes to meet the evolving needs of our products and users.

You will steer the technical strategy and vision for our underpinning infrastructure, alerting & monitoring, networking, and development tooling in collaboration with other engineering teams and leadership.

What You'll Do:

• Develop, drive, execute, and lead a long term vision and strategy for Via’s Site Reliability, infrastructure, and tooling
• Write, build, deploy, and maintain code in production
• Lead, manage, and grow high-caliber cloud infrastructure engineering teams
• Provide seamless developer experiences in close collaboration with other engineering teams
• Collaborate with engineering groups to establish best practices and standards for incident response and management
• Continuously enhance our infrastructure and supporting procedures so that it is easy to maintain and deploys reliably

Who You Are:

• Minimum of 8+ years experience of industry experience in SRE, cloud engineering and infrastructure, and CI/CD tools
• Minimum of 3 years experience managing a multi-team organization; experience managing teams of site reliability and infrastructure engineers
• Experience designing, deploying, building or managing distributed systems of significant scale
• Professional experience and capability with essential cloud infrastructure systems (Kubernetes, AWS, GCE).
• Track record of growing and assembling a high functioning engineering organization
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule
• Ability to collaborate effectively with a geo-distributed team
• BS degree or Masters degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience

We’re Via, and we build technology that changes the way the world moves. We pioneered the TransitTech category to ensure that the future of transportation is shared, dynamic public mobility — the kind that reduces carbon emissions across congested cities, minimizes reliance on private cars, and provides everyone with accessible, efficient, and affordable ways of getting around.

We created the first end-to-end TransitTech solution for cities and transit agencies, offering world-class software, service design, and operational expertise to fundamentally improve the way the world moves.

Via was founded with the guiding principle that we go further when we go together. We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. All backgrounds, identities, and voices are welcomed and celebrated at Via.

Ready to join the ride?

Via is an equal opportunity employer.