--- title: 'Director of Infrastructure at AllSpice' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/director-of-infrastructure-allspice-boston-b5w8f422q2r5' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Director of Infrastructure at AllSpice - **Company:** AllSpice - **Location:** Boston, MA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-03-02 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/allspice/88cf1665-04ab-4043-8764-1734b300f835/application **Skills:** AWS, Terraform, Docker, Linux, Git, GitHub Actions, Infrastructure as Code, Cloud Security, SOC 2, ISO 27001, Incident Response, Disaster Recovery, SSO, OIDC, LDAP, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Bash, Python > The Director of Infrastructure leads AllSpice's infrastructure strategy, security posture, and compliance programs while managing a small team. This hands-on role involves architecting AWS environments, ensuring SOC 2 compliance, and serving as the primary technical point of contact for enterprise customers. ## Job description Help define the future of hardware development by building a collaboration platform for circuit designs, enabling the next generation of smart vehicles, IoT devices, rockets, medical devices, robotics, and much more. At AllSpice, we're building the agile development environment for hardware designers, including a Git-friendly translation layer and automated CI/CD framework for native circuit designs, think GitHub/GitLab + Copilot for electronics. Read more about our latest Series A announcement here https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/23/allspices-platform-is-the-github-for-electrical-engineering-teams/! As Director of Infrastructure, you will own AllSpice's infrastructure, security, and compliance programs end-to-end while building and leading a small, high-impact team. This is a hands-on leadership role: roughly 60% management and strategic work, 40% individual contribution, reporting to the CTO. With the team at 1–2 people for the next 12 months, there are no layers between you and production — you'll write the Terraform, lead the incident call, and walk an enterprise customer's CISO through our security posture, sometimes all in the same week. If you want executive-level ownership at a fast-growing startup — and you still love shipping infrastructure yourself — this role is for you. ## WHAT YOU'LL DO This is a high-impact role that comes with significant autonomy and requires a self-driven, strategic, and collaborative builder. You will own our infrastructure, security, and compliance programs end-to-end. ## HANDS-ON INFRASTRUCTURE AND SCALING - Architect, build, and operate our production AWS environments using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code — you'll ship your own changes - Make the architectural calls on cloud strategy, high availability, scaling, and cost optimization as our workloads and customer base grow - Automate deployments, backups, and disaster recovery across AllSpice Cloud, single-tenant, and self-hosted configurations - Monitor and improve the performance, availability, and cost efficiency of production systems across all hosting models - Work closely with application developers to deploy infrastructure solutions to product problems ## CUSTOMER-FACING ENGINEERING - Lead enterprise deployments end-to-end across our three hosting models — AllSpice Cloud, single-tenant instances, and self-hosted — including architecture reviews, SSO/OIDC integrations, and security sign-off - Own the process for spinning up application instances for customer evaluations — streamline it now, automate it over time - Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customer InfoSec questionnaires, IT security reviews, and procurement processes - Support self-hosted and GovCloud deployments for customers with ITAR, EAR, or CUI requirements - Partner with customer success and sales to turn infrastructure into a reason enterprises buy ## SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE OWNERSHIP - Own AllSpice's security posture: policies, incident response, disaster recovery, and ongoing risk assessment - Maintain SOC 2 compliance, penetration testing, and audit processes; evaluate additional certifications as we grow - Work with legal counsel on security and data-protection matters, including DPAs, breach notification obligations, and regulatory requirements ## PEOPLE MANAGEMENT AND TEAM BUILDING - Hire, mentor, and manage infrastructure engineers as the team grows - Set team goals, define processes, and establish on-call rotations — and take your own turn in the rotation, leading incident response when needed - Create growth paths for ICs and foster a culture of operational excellence ## EXAMPLE PROJECTS - Automate provisioning of evaluation instances so a prospective customer can be testing AllSpice in hours, not days - Scale infrastructure for zero-downtime deployments across multi-region AWS accounts - Plan and evaluate horizontal scaling strategies for compute runtime to support growing workloads and concurrent users - Lead an enterprise customer through a self-hosted deployment, including architecture review, SSO integration, and security sign-off - Identify opportunities to reduce cloud spend while improving performance - Stress-test backup and disaster recovery procedures and publish runbooks - Drive SOC 2 Type II renewals and maintain ongoing compliance cadence - Coordinate tabletop exercises and incident response drills with the Security Incident Response Team ## OUR STACK - Terraform & Docker Swarm deployed to AWS for production infrastructure - Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus for observability - GitHub Actions for CI/CD - Playwright for e2e testing - Gitea https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea application fork - Go [server-side] - PostgreSQL ## EXPECTATIONS Our ideal candidate has: - 8+ years of cloud infrastructure and/or security engineering experience, with recent hands-on production work — you've written Terraform and debugged a live incident in the past year, not the past decade - Experience owning infrastructure at a startup or on a small team, where you built systems yourself rather than directing a platform org - Fluency in the operational differences between multi-tenant SaaS, single-tenant, and self-hosted deployments — and how each changes the approach to support, monitoring, and implementation - 2+ years of people management experience (hiring, mentoring, performance management) - Deep hands-on expertise with AWS services (IAM, GuardDuty, VPC, Lambda, etc.), Linux administration, and Docker - Demonstrated ownership of security policy, compliance programs (SOC 2, ISO 27001), and incident response - Confidence in front of customers — you can run an InfoSec review, present to a CISO, and guide an enterprise onboarding - Strong project management skills with ability to lead cross-functional initiatives from engineers to customers - Comfort with ambiguity and a high degree of autonomy - Must be a U.S. Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident (Green Card holder) ## RELEVANT SKILLS You don't need to check every box, but the more of these you bring, the better: Infrastructure and operations - Terraform and infrastructure-as-code at scale - AWS services (IAM, GuardDuty, Elasticsearch, ElastiCache, Lambda) and experience with other cloud providers (GCP, Azure) - Docker and Kubernetes - Bash and Python scripting - nginx and reverse-proxy services - PostgreSQL administration - Automated provisioning and orchestration of per-customer environments Security and compliance - SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other security certification frameworks - ITAR/EAR/CUI compliance and GovCloud deployments - SSO, OIDC, LDAP, and enterprise authentication - Vulnerability scanning, penetration testing coordination, and vendor security reviews Leadership - Hiring, mentoring, and building infrastructure teams from the ground up - Working with legal counsel on data protection, DPAs, and regulatory matters - Customer-facing technical communication (InfoSec reviews, enterprise onboarding) - Project management using tools such as Jira, Notion, or similar ## BENEFITS - Opportunity to make a large impact at an executive level - Supportive and smart colleagues - Flexible work - Competitive salary and equity - Health, dental, and vision benefits - Generous PTO - Home office stipend - Relocation package ## About AllSpice ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: AllSpice provides a hardware collaboration platform that brings software-style version control, design review, and AI-powered automation to electronics development teams. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: Somerville, Massachusetts, United States - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: Valentina Ratner (Co-Founder & CEO), Kyle Dumont (Co-Founder & CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Hardware Development / Electronics Design Automation (EDA) / Software Development - **Target customers**: B2B; Electrical engineers, PCB designers, and hardware teams at startups to Fortune 500 companies in aerospace, robotics, defense, automotive, medical devices, and consumer electronics. - **Mission or purpose statement**: To modernize the infrastructure behind hardware development, enabling engineers to design and ship life-changing products to market with confidence and efficiency. ## Products & Services - **[AllSpice Hub](https://allspice.io/)**: A collaboration platform that brings software-style version control (Git for hardware), in-browser design review, and visual diffs to electronics development. It serves as a central home base for schematics, PCB layouts, and design history. - **[DRCY AI Agent](https://allspice.io/ai-agent)**: An AI-powered design review agent that runs automated, auditable first-pass checks on hardware designs. It catches issues like misconfigured pins, swapped TX/RX, missing coupling capacitors, and component end-of-life, freeing engineers to focus on higher-level design decisions. - **Automation & Workflows**: Supports repeatable engineering workflows for generating BOM files, release packages, and review reports, integrated with tools like Slack and email. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $25.3M - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Rethink Impact (lead, Series A), L'ATTITUDE Ventures, GingerBread Capital, DNX Ventures, Root Ventures, Benchstrength, Flybridge, Bowery Capital, XFactor Ventures - **Growth Signals**: Raised a $15M Series A in July 2025; launched DRCY AI Agent; 40.5% headcount growth YoY; expanding enterprise features and customer base across aerospace, defense, robotics, and medical devices. ## Competitive Advantages - **Git for Hardware**: The only platform that brings true Git-based version control and software-style workflows to electronics design, solving a critical pain point in hardware development. - **AI-Powered Design Review (DRCY)**: A unique AI agent that runs automated, auditable first-pass checks on real design data and datasheets, catching errors early and reducing costly prototype iterations. - **Deep Integration**: Connects directly with native engineering design tools (ECAD) and automates workflows, making it a seamless part of the existing engineering stack. - **Traceability & Collaboration**: Provides a single source of truth for design history, reviews, and decisions, eliminating reliance on email, chat, and tribal knowledge. ## Strategic Focus - **Scaling Enterprise Features**: Using the $15M Series A to build out enterprise-grade functionality, support, and customer success. - **AI-Powered Automation**: Expanding the DRCY AI Agent's capabilities to automate more tedious, repetitive design validation tasks, freeing engineers for higher-level innovation. - **Market Expansion**: Growing customer base across aerospace, defense, robotics, medical devices, and automotive sectors, from startups to Fortune 500s. - **Platform Ecosystem**: Deepening integrations with native engineering design tools and expanding automation workflows to become the central hub for hardware development. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as fast-paced, innovative, and collaborative. Team members are characterized as curious, action-oriented, autonomous, and customer-centric. The company values shipping, iterating, and learning by doing. - **Work Policy**: Hybrid workspace with offices in Somerville, MA and San Francisco, CA. Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work. - **Perks & Benefits**: Offers company equity, healthcare benefits (dental, health, vision), commuter benefits, onsite office parking, home-office stipend for remote employees, and customized development tracks with continuing education support. - **Engineering Culture**: Uses a modern tech stack (Python, Go, Rust, JavaScript, Vue.js, SQL) and emphasizes autonomy, judgment over rigid process, and a high bar for excellence. The team is building the future of hardware development infrastructure. - **Diversity**: Has a highly diverse management team and hiring practices that promote diversity. ## Sources 1. [allspice.io](https://www.allspice.io/careers) 2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/allspice-io) 3. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/allspice) 4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/allspice) 5. 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