Director, Cloud Infrastructure

• Lead Sanity's infrastructure into its next stage, bringing clearer ownership, stronger platform foundations, better operational discipline, and an architecture that carries the company through the next few stages of growth. • Own the platform foundations Sanity engineers build on every day: cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, routing, observability, CI/CD, deployment paths, incident response, and the standards that make production ownership work across product teams. • Work at real scale, since Content Lake alone handles around 75,000 requests a second, roughly 4.5 million a minute, alongside critical paths across CDN, edge, gateway, caching, object storage, and GCP infrastructure. • Pick up work already in motion, including moving Varnish and Mead onto Fastly, tightening observability, finishing the developer on-call rollout, and making production readiness a normal part of shipping. • Lead while staying technically deep: spar with strong infrastructure engineers, make hard architectural calls, and build the operating model around them. • Work from the London office on a hybrid basis.

• Have led Infrastructure, Platform, SRE, Cloud, or Developer Platform teams at a scaling SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, API, data, or developer-tools company. • Have operated systems with high request volume, multi-region production, strict uptime expectations, large cloud bills, customer-facing incidents, and trust requirements that made engineering quality visible. • Have built or run production platforms with Kubernetes, GCP or AWS, Terraform or similar infrastructure as code, service discovery, networking, API gateways, CDNs, observability, CI/CD, and incident response. • Go deep enough technically to debate architecture with senior infrastructure engineers, while staying practical enough to call it when the perfect answer is wasting time. • Split central platform ownership from product-team service ownership without creating a ticket queue everyone resents. • Improve on-call and reliability by building systems, standards, and feedback loops that make production healthier over time. • Turn messy infrastructure work into a strategy people can follow, then keep pushing until it ships. • Communicate clearly with executives, product leaders, engineers, and customer-facing teams, explaining tradeoffs without sanding off the technical truth. • Have managed managers or senior technical leads, knowing when to coach, when to set the bar, and when to get directly involved.

• Have worked with Fastly, Varnish, or other CDN and edge caching layers. • Have taken an organisation through SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI, or HIPAA. • Have designed for multi-region scale, disaster recovery, or data residency requirements. • Have owned cloud cost discipline at scale.

• Set the infrastructure strategy for Sanity's next stage of scale, with a clear roadmap across cloud infrastructure, reliability, deployment, observability, security, cost, and developer experience. • Lead the teams responsible for the shared foundations behind engineering velocity, including GCP projects and clusters, Kubernetes, networking, service discovery, routing, gateways, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability. • Draw a clean line between Platform and SRE, so Platform owns the shared foundations while SRE helps product teams run services well through tooling, standards, and incident support. • Raise the reliability bar across production systems, covering dashboards, alert severity, paging standards, service ownership, on-call readiness, and incident response. • Make deployment boring in the best way through clear golden paths, production readiness checks, safe rollouts, useful automation, and fewer places engineers need to look before they ship. • Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, Support, Sales, and Customer Success on the infrastructure work customers care about: uptime, latency, scale, compliance, trust, and cost. • Own cloud cost discipline without slowing the business down, understanding where the money goes, making tradeoffs visible, and helping teams build with cost in mind. • Shape the longer-term architecture for multi-region scale, disaster recovery, data residency, and trust requirements such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI, and HIPAA. • Hire, coach, and stretch infrastructure leaders and engineers, making strong technical people better.

• Take on real infrastructure scale with a clear mandate to change how it works. • Hold a senior seat in R&D, close to Product, Engineering, Security, and customer-facing teams. • Join a highly skilled, inspiring, and supportive team. • Work in a positive, flexible, trust-based environment that supports long-term professional and personal growth. • Work with a global, culturally diverse group of colleagues and customers. • Access comprehensive health plans and perks. • Keep a healthy work-life balance that accommodates individual and family needs. • Receive competitive stock options and a location-based salary.

Sanity is a modern content operating system that replaces rigid legacy content management systems. It treats content as data so teams can keep one governed source of truth and adapt it across websites, apps, workflows, and AI agents with less duplicated work. Companies including SKIMS, Figma, Riot Games, Anthropic, Nordstrom, and Morning Brew run their content operations on it. The 200+ person company recently raised an $85 million Series C led by GP Bullhound, with backing from ICONIQ Growth, Threshold Ventures, Heavybit, and Shopify.