Deel

SaaS

InfrastructureTechLead

EMEA FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Infrastructure Tech Lead at Deel. Skills: Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, Technical Leadership, Cloud Platforms (AWS/GCP). Setting the technical direction for the Infra Core team. Doing hands-on technical work”

Industry & Context.

SaaS
Problems you'll solve

Treating toil as an engineering problem and build the automation required to eliminate it; Resolving complex multi-team technical challenges

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

10+ years of professional software engineering experience, 5+ years specifically focused on infrastructure (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps, CNCF landscape), Expertise in writing production-grade code in Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, or Python, 2+ years of experience acting as a technical lead, mentoring engineers, and successfully driving projects with distributed, cross-functional teams across multiple time zones, Proven experience designing high-performance, highly available distributed systems, Deep familiarity with message brokers (NATS, Kafka) and building event-driven architectures on top of them, Experience designing and operating systems that extend Kubernetes—whether by building operators and controllers, integrating and customizing third-party tools, or architecting custom platform primitives on top of Kubernetes APIs, Solid operational experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL), particularly around how they integrate and scale within a modern platform, A track record of delivery: You have taken complex infrastructure projects from inception to delivery—writing the roadmap, aligning stakeholders, hitting milestones, and successfully shipping, Excellent Communication: written and verbal communication skills, A bias for action

Nice to Have

Experience with internal developer platforms (IDP), developer experience tooling, or self-serve platform engineering

What You'll Do.

Setting the technical direction for the Infra Core team

Doing hands-on technical work

Staying close to the architecture

Raising the team's bar

Focusing on the application layer: how services are built

Building control plane

and infrastructure primitives

Identifying the biggest bottleneck

building a robust solution

Shaping the roadmap and prioritizing the team's work

Tangibly improving developers' lives at Deel

Designing patterns and infrastructure for a rapidly growing Kubernetes ecosystem

Shaping how hundreds of microservices are built

and efficiently scaled globally

Acting as the ultimate escalation point during critical production incidents

Automating secure provisioning

and environment registrations

Driving architectural shifts at the routing layer

Tackling projects equivalent in scale and complexity to replacing entire ingress controller fleets or migrating massive backend traffic volumes to centralized API gateways

Leading enterprise-scale secrets management and security posture improvements

Architecting zero-downtime secret rotation

Eliminating legacy credential injection methods

Enforcing strict boundaries between sensitive data and GitOps-driven configurations

Spearheading the evolution of the observability stack

Deprecating legacy tracing systems

Driving the adoption of unified OpenTelemetry standards across hundreds of microservices

Building high-volume logging pipelines

Architecting and deploying new platform capabilities

from enterprise-scale real-time WebSocket infrastructure to ensuring platform support for event-driven and AI-agentic workloads

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Working closely with DevOps, DBA, InfoSec, and product engineering teams to align on organizational goals; Representing the infrastructure domain in architectural conversations; Resolving complex multi-team technical challenges; Driving shared objectives; Aligning a team behind a technical vision; Working with distributed, cross-functional teams across multiple time zones

Communication Scope

Excellent written and verbal communication skills; Articulating complex architectural tradeoffs clearly to both product engineers and leadership

Process & Methodology

Writing the roadmap, Aligning stakeholders, Hitting milestones, Shipping complex infrastructure projects, Keeping a project moving

Full Job Description

Who we are is what we do. Deel is the all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. Our vision is to unlock global opportunity for every person, team, and business. Built for the way the world works today, Deel combines HRIS, payroll, compliance, benefits, performance, and equipment management into one seamless platform. With AI-powered tools and a fully owned payroll infrastructure, Deel supports every worker type in 150+ countries—helping businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly. Among the largest globally distributed companies in the world, our team of 7,000 spans more than 100 countries, speaks 74 languages, and brings a connected and dynamic culture that drives continuous learning and innovation for our customers. Why should you be part of our success story? As the fastest-growing Software as a Service (SaaS) company in history, Deel is transforming how global talent connects with world-class companies – breaking down borders that have traditionally limited both hiring and career opportunities. We're not just building software; we're creating the infrastructure for the future of work, enabling a more diverse and inclusive global economy. In 2024 alone, we paid $11.2 billion to workers in nearly 100 currencies and provided healthcare and benefits to workers in 109 countries—ensuring people get paid and protected, no matter where they are. Our momentum is reflected in our achievements and customer satisfaction: CNBC Disruptor 50,  Forbes Cloud 100, Deloitte Fast 500, and repeated recognition on Y Combinator’s top companies list – all while maintaining a 4.83 average rating from 15,000 reviews across G2, Trustpilot, Captera, Apple and Google. Your experience at Deel will be a career accelerator. At the forefront of the global work revolution, you'll tackle complex challenges that impact millions of people's working lives. With our momentum—backed by a $17.3 billion valuation and $1 B in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in just over five years—yo

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