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Senior Engineer, Platform Infrastructure
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We are seeking an experienced Senior Engineer to serve as the technical architect and lead for our Cloud foundation. In this role, you won’t be just maintaining systems; you will be defining the future of how our infrastructure evolves. You will own the scalability and reliability of our global platforms while leading the charge into Agentic Infrastructure - leveraging AI to build self-healing, autonomous systems that reduce operational toil.
You will act as the bridge between high-level business strategy and deep technical execution, ensuring our Kubernetes-driven environment is not just stable, but a competitive advantage.
** Please note that this opportunity is located in New York, NY, and requires this hire to work from our office four days a week. **
What You’ll Do
- Architectural Leadership: Own the long-term technical roadmap for our AWS/Kubernetes ecosystem. Design and implement multi-region, high-availability architectures that support rapid product scaling.
- AI & Agentic Systems: Proactively identify and implement opportunities to use AI/LLMs to build agentic workflows for infrastructure management (e.g., autonomous scaling, automated incident remediation, and intelligent cost optimization).
- Advanced Orchestration: Lead the evolution of our Kubernetes and Istio service mesh strategy, focusing on performance tuning, advanced traffic management, and developer self-service.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Set the standard for Terraform/OpenTofu usage, building reusable modules and frameworks that empower the entire engineering organization.
- Strategic Optimization: Partner with leadership to manage cloud spend and performance metrics, turning technical efficiency into business revenue growth.
- Mentorship & Influence: Act as a force multiplier by mentoring engineers and influencing cross-functional product teams on best practices for Cloud-native development.
- Incident Response & SRE: Serve as a high-level escalation point for complex systemic issues, conducting deep-dive post-mortems that drive structural improvements rather than quick fixes.
What Makes You a Great Fit?
- Deep Technical Mastery: You have extensive experience managing large-scale production environments in AWS, with "black belt" level knowledge of Kubernetes internals, networking (VPC/Direct Connect), and Istio.
- The "AI Native" Mindset: You are passionate about the intersection of Infrastructure and AI. You don't just want to monitor a system; you want to build an agent that monitors and fixes it for you.
- Proven Track Record: You have 8+ years of experience in Infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps, with at least 2 years in a Senior-level capacity driving cross-team initiatives.
- Polyglot Engineering: You are highly proficient in Go or Python, and you’re comfortable diving into the application layer (Ruby, Node.js, or Java) to debug performance bottlenecks.
- Security-First Philosophy: While this is an infra-focused role, you bake security into the CI/CD pipeline and underlying architecture by default.
What VTS Values & How We Show It
- Strive for Excellence - We know your potential is unlimited. Take advantage of our executive coaches and our training and career development programs available to all employees!
- Be Customer Obsessed - We’re employee obsessed too! VTS offers competitive compensation, comprehensive health benefits (including dental and vision), pre-tax commuter benefits, and a 401(k) plan. Not to mention the fun stuff - quarterly happy hours, wellness events, clubs, and team lunches!
- Be Curious - Benefit from a culture that promotes new learning. VTS offers an education stipend to all employees!
- Move as One - We work in an open floor plan to promote cross-functional collaboration.
- Take Ownership - Be an owner of the company you’re building with our equity packages.
- Appreciate the Difference - VTS embraces and celebrates diversity. We understand the importance of a strong work-life balance. We offer a flexible PTO policy, generous family leave program, and more!
VTS is the only AI-driven technology platform enabling intelligent real estate by unifying industry professionals, investors, and their customers at scale. In 2013, VTS revolutionized commercial real estate leasing operations with what is now VTS Lease. Today, VTS AI is the largest first-party insights and collaboration engine in the industry, transforming how strategic decisions are made and executed by the real estate industry globally.
With the VTS Platform, consisting of VTS Lease, VTS Market, VTS Activate, and VTS Data, every stakeholder in real estate is given real-time market information and workflow tools to do their job with unparalleled speed and intelligence. VTS is the global leader, with more than 60% of Class A office space in the U.S., and 13 billion square feet of office, residential, retail, and industrial space is managed through the platform worldwide. VTS is utilized by over 45,000 professionals and over 1.2 million total users each day, including industry-leading customers such as Blackstone, Brookfield Properties, LaSalle Investment Management, Hines, BXP, Oxford Properties, JLL, and CBRE.
VTS maintains offices in New York City, London, Toronto, Chicago.
To learn more about VTS and view our open roles, visit us at vts.com or follow us on Instagram (@WeAreVTS) or LinkedIn.
Pay Transparency
At VTS, we pride ourselves on articulating a clear and transparent philosophy around equitable, impartial compensation that will allow us to recruit and retain an exceptional team. The base salary is market-driven at the time of offer and is based on tier 1 market data. The salary for this role will range between $160,000 and $200,000 and is determined by several factors, including your skills, prior relevant experience, quality of interviews, leveling, and geography.
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As a technical leader, you'll drive high-impact, customer-facing projects across major business lines and play a pivotal role in advancing VTS's evolution into an AI-powered platform, further cementing our industry-leading position.
To excel in this role, you'll leverage your experience with complex, tightly integrated applications and services, understanding both their challenges and immense opportunities. Your expertise in building and deploying AI-powered systems will be crucial, always underpinned by the same engineering rigor that guarantees quality, reliability, and scalability, ultimately leading to exceptional customer experiences.
** Please note that this opportunity is located in New York, NY, and requires this hire to work from our office four days a week. **
To thrive in this role you hold:
- Technical Leadership: You'll define the technical vision and architecture, ensuring the quality, scalability, and reliability of our cloud-deployed software systems.
- Strategic Collaboration: You'll partner closely with other Staff Engineers to align and coordinate technical investments across major product areas.
- Influential Consensus Building: You have a demonstrated ability to build consensus and drive alignment among diverse technical leads.
- Adaptable Expertise: You are technology-agnostic, quickly orienting to new codebases and tools. You also proactively explore and champion emergent technologies and their potential to solve complex problems. You possess strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Ruby, TypeScript, Go, or Python, or Ruby.
- Dedicated Mentorship: You prioritize the growth of both junior and senior engineers. You're adept at pairing, providing insightful feedback through one-on-ones, and offering comprehensive written reviews of technical proposals and pull requests. You also actively support teams in their daily development as a technical mentor.
- Impactful Problem Solving: You are a skilled problem solver capable of identifying and resolving complex technical issues with deep expertise, while also serving as a strategic thinker who creatively advances broad initiatives.
- AI System Experience: You have hands-on experience developing, building, and deploying AI systems.
ABOUT VTS
VTS is the only AI-driven technology platform enabling intelligent real estate by unifying industry professionals, investors, and their customers at scale. In 2013, VTS revolutionized commercial real estate leasing operations with what is now VTS Lease. Today, VTS AI is the largest first-party insights and collaboration engine in the industry, transforming how strategic decisions are made and executed by the real estate industry globally.
With the VTS Platform, consisting of VTS Lease, VTS Market, VTS Activate, and VTS Data, every stakeholder in real estate is given real-time market information and workflow tools to do their job with unparalleled speed and intelligence. VTS is the global leader, with more than 60% of Class A office space in the U.S., and 13 billion square feet of office, residential, retail, and industrial space is managed through the platform worldwide. VTS is utilized by over 45,000 professionals and over 1.2 million total users each day, including industry-leading customers such as Blackstone, Brookfield Properties, LaSalle Investment Management, Hines, BXP, Oxford Properties, JLL, and CBRE.
VTS maintains offices in New York, London, Toronto, Chicago.
To learn more about VTS and view our open roles, visit us at vts.com or follow us on Instagram (@WeAreVTS) or LinkedIn.
Pay Transparency
At VTS, we pride ourselves on articulating a clear and transparent philosophy around equitable, impartial compensation that will allow us to recruit and retain an exceptional team. The base salary is market-driven at the time of offer and is based on tier 1 market data. The salary for this role will range between $170,000 and $220,000 and is determined by several factors, including your skills, prior relevant experience, quality of interviews, leveling, and geography.
Ready to apply?
Apply to VTS