Director, Engineering – Release Engineering, DevOps & SRE

Department: Top Level - By Department

Location: Remote - North Carolina

Compensation: $250K – $300K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus

Employment Type: FullTime

Were looking for a hands-on engineering leader to build and own the Release Engineering, SecDevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) functions for Infinia. This is a foundational role: youll define how our software is built, secured, released, and kept running at enterprise scale.

If you thrive at the intersection of infrastructure automation, operational excellence, and team building — and you want your work to directly shape the reliability and velocity of a market-leading storage platform — this is your role.

What Youll Do

Release Engineering

• Own the end-to-end release pipeline — build systems, artifact management, versioning, and release gating

• Drive automation of build, test, and packaging workflows to maximize developer velocity

• Define release cadence, branching strategies, and code freeze processes with engineering leadership

DevOps and SecDevOps

• Architect and operate scalable CI/CD pipelines and developer toolchains for on-prem and cloud

• Embed security into the SDLC — SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, secrets management

• Champion automation-first DevOps practices from commit to production delivery

Site Reliability Engineering

• Define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; own incident response and post-mortem culture

• Drive observability — logging, metrics, distributed tracing — across the platform

• Influence reliability and operability early, at design and code-review stages

• Lead capacity planning and infrastructure scaling decisions

Leadership

• Build, mentor, and grow teams across all three disciplines in a global, distributed org

• Communicate roadmap and risks to senior leadership; partner cross-functionally with product, QA, and security

What You Bring

• 12+ years in DevOps, Release Engineering, or SRE — with 5+ years managing engineering teams

• Deep experience with CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Tekton, or similar)

• Infrastructure-as-code fluency: Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or equivalent

• Container orchestration expertise: Kubernetes and Docker in production

• Practical DevSecOps background — youve shipped security tooling, not just talked about it

• SRE chops: SLO/SLI design, on-call frameworks, observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)

• Strong communicator — you can translate complex technical tradeoffs for exec and non-technical audiences

Bonus Points

• Experience with storage, distributed systems, or infrastructure software

• Familiarity with HPC, AI/ML infrastructure, or enterprise data platforms

• Background scaling DevOps in high-growth, globally distributed environments

• Exposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP compliance requirements

Why DDN

• Work on infrastructure that underpins some of the worlds most demanding AI and research workloads

• Greenfield opportunity to shape Release Engineering, DevOps, and SRE from the ground up for Infinia

• Collaborative, engineering-first culture that values autonomy, technical depth, and continuous learning

• Competitive compensation, remote-first flexibility, and a team that genuinely enjoys solving hard problems