Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

Apollo.io is the leading go-to-market solution for revenue teams, trusted by over 500,000 companies and millions of users globally, from rapidly growing startups to some of the world's largest enterprises. Founded in 2015, the company is one of the fastest growing companies in SaaS, raising approximately $250 million to date and valued at $1.6 billion. Apollo.io provides sales and marketing teams with easy access to verified contact data for over 210 million B2B contacts and 35 million companies worldwide, along with tools to engage and convert these contacts in one unified platform. By helping revenue professionals find the most accurate contact information and automating the outreach process, Apollo.io turns prospects into customers. Apollo raised a series D in 2023 and is backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and more, and counts the former President and COO of Hubspot, JD Sherman, among its board members. Your Role & Mission As an Engineering Manager for the Infrastructure team, you’ll lead the engineers responsible for keeping Apollo’s systems fast, reliable, and scalable as we serve millions of daily users and process billions of data points. You’ll work at the intersection of platform engineering, SRE, observability, and developer productivity, ensuring that our foundation can support Apollo’s AI-native evolution and rapid growth. You will: Build and lead a world-class infrastructure team focused on reliability, scalability, and performance. Report directly to the CTO, and partner closely with Product, Data, and AI Platform leaders to ensure the underlying systems enable fast, safe, and confident iteration. Drive best-in-class engineering practices for production uptime, performance, CI/CD, observability, incident management, and cost optimization. Foster a culture of excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement — where engineers are empowered to innovate and ship fearlessly. Help define Apollo’s next-generation infrastructure strategy — from cloud architecture to developer experience and AI-driven automation. Daily Adventures and Responsibilities Lead, coach, and grow a distributed team of high-impact Infrastructure Engineers. You are expected to spend roughly 30% of the time as an IC. Partner with senior engineering leadership on strategic initiatives such as cloud migration, infrastructure scaling, platform reliability, and cost efficiency. Define and implement modern operational excellence practices, including SLOs, error budgets, incident reviews, and performance monitoring. Guide technical decision-making across key areas like Kubernetes, GCP, observability, networking, CI/CD, and IaC (Terraform, Ansible). Collaborate with AI, Data, and Product Engineering teams to ensure infrastructure scalability for ML and AI-native workloads. Run effective 1:1s, career development conversations, and quarterly performance reviews. Support recruiting efforts to attract top engineering talent across time zones. You think in systems and love scaling reliability through automation, not headcount. You’re equally comfortable talking about incident response policies as you are Terraform modules or service mesh architecture. You build psychological safety within teams and help engineers grow through mentorship and clear accountability. You communicate crisply, document thoughtfully, and drive alignment across distributed, cross-functional teams. You embody Apollo’s values of Ownership, Integrity, Curiosity, Excellence, Teamwork, and Fun. 5+ years of hands-on software or infrastructure engineering experience. 2+ years of experience leading teams of senior and staff-level engineers in platform, SRE, or infrastructure domains. Proven ability to design and operate large-scale distributed systems in cloud environments (preferably GCP or AWS). Expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ubuntu, and CI/CD pipelines. Familiarity with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Datadog, NewRelic) and performance tuning. Strong grounding in networking, security, and reliability principles. Experience managing infrastructure costs, availability SLAs, and high-throughput systems at scale. Bonus: Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, data pipelines, MongoDB, Ruby on Rails, Ansible, or ElasticSearch. Why You’ll Love Working at Apollo At Apollo, we’re driven by a shared mission: to help our customers unlock their full revenue potential. That starts with a reliable, scalable, and innovative foundation — built by teams like Infrastructure. You’ll have: Autonomy & Impact: Lead a mission-critical domain powering the growth of a top SaaS company. A Learning Culture: Work alongside brilliant engineers, experiment with emerging AI-driven DevOps tools, and stay at the cutting edge of cloud-native practices. Remote-First Flexibility: Collaborate across time zones while maintaining balance and focus. A High-Performance Team: Ownership, urgency, and support — we win and grow together. If you’re ready to lead Infrastructure for one of the fastest-scaling SaaS companies on the planet, join us. #LI-SD1 Annual Pay Range $195,000 - $285,000 USD We are AI Native Apollo.io is an AI-native company built on a culture of continuous improvement. We’re on the front lines of driving productivity for our customers—and we expect the same mindset from our team. If you're energized by finding smarter, faster ways to get things done using AI and automation, you'll thrive here. Voluntary Self-Identification As set forth in Apollo.io’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law. #J-18808-Ljbffr