This role will report directly to the Head of Software Engineering.

Day in the Life：
- [Impact] Design, operate and improve the technical infrastructure of the entire company, including external dependencies (AWS, Twillio, ADP gateway, etc) and internal shared services (feature flags, A/B testing framework, etc)
- [Impact] Review and design architectures to help application engineering teams to build simple, secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective distributed systems using cloud technologies with AWS AND SaaS APIs.
- [Impact] Investigate and monitor performance and problems on systems using DataDog and Sentry.
- [Leadership] Design, champion, and implement best practices to achieve SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) operational excellence across all engineering teams
- [Leadership] Develop and implement security best practices across all layers of the systems (data, networking, auth, application)
- [Leadership] Design and implement DevOps tools and processes to empower all engineering (CI/CD, high-parallel e2e testing infra, code analyzer, dev environment for load testing and sandbox, mobile labs)
- [Team development] build, hire, manage, and coach your team, logically consisting of DevOps, SREs, security engineers, system architects, software engineers, and platform engineers across China and Silicon Valley Time Zones
- [Team development] Be a cultural champion for Workstream’s values.

Who You Are:
- [technical] You have extensive infrastructure experience in cloud-native technologies and have led organizations that have built and operated platforms to uplevel the lives of engineers. You are conversant in microservice architectures.
- [technical] A strong understanding of system design and system operations. Apt at building processes and mechanisms to enforce best practices.
- [team development] Proven experience as a technical leader and engineering manager, as the leader of an engineering organization driving significant impact. You understand how to lead and inspire through others.
- [team development] You have experience mentoring and supporting peers and engineering teams, fostering quality engineering practices.
- [direction setting] Possess a deep understanding of how to translate product and business goals into tech strategies.
- [direction setting] Extensive software engineering experience in an agile environment.
- [credentials] In the past, you have solved similar problems affecting the larger company engineering organization and your own team.
- [culture] Passionate about developing platforms that are used by thousands of engineers and products for hundreds of millions of consumers.
- [culture] Possess a strong interest in keeping up with current best practices in cloud-native technologies.
Our working language is English.


Where you'll be
Minimum: China mainland with easy travel to Shanghai.
Preferred: Shanghai. We have an office and a corporate entity in Shanghai.
Our engineering team operates in both the PST and Beijing time zone.
We have a hybrid schedule where people come to the office 1-3 times a week.