Vice President of Engineering

Harrison Clarke Group operates at the intersection of Search, Venture and Media . Since 2017, the Group has helped Founders and Investors build talent-dense companies through Harrison Clarke (Startup Search), ARKE (Mission-Critical Workforce Solutions), Harrison Clarke Ventures (Venture Capital) and Inside the Silicon Mind (Founder and Investor Media Platform).

Harrison Clarke (Startup Search) is partnered with a Tier 1 VC-backed startup that's building the future of infrastructure engineering on their search for a Vice President of Engineering . Their mission is to do for infrastructure engineers what Cursor and Claude Code did for software developers: radically accelerate how they work by automating the tedious, repetitive, and high-cognitive-load parts of their job.

The Role

As Vice President of Engineering you will own the engineering organization end-to-end. You will set the technical vision, build and lead high-performing teams, and ensure the company ships reliable, high-leverage products that infrastructure engineers love and depend on.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will remain close to the product and architecture while building the systems, processes, and culture that allow the team to scale.

What You’ll Do

• Own the engineering roadmap, technical strategy, and delivery of the core product
• Recruit, develop, and retain exceptional engineers and engineering managers
• Establish engineering excellence: architecture, reliability, security, developer experience, and operational rigor
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and Go-to-Market to translate ambitious product vision into shipped reality
• Build the operating cadence, metrics, and culture that support both speed and quality

What We’re Looking For

• Proven track record leading engineering organizations in high-growth startups or product-driven companies
• Deep technical background in infrastructure, developer tools, cloud platforms, or related systems (experience with infrastructure automation, observability, orchestration, or developer productivity tools is a strong plus)
• Experience building and scaling teams through hypergrowth
• Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on technical judgment
• Strong product sense and customer empathy
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to operate effectively with founders, board members, and cross-functional leaders

Why This Opportunity

• Rare chance to shape a category-defining product in the infrastructure/developer productivity space
• Work with a Tier 1 investor syndicate and a founding team that has already demonstrated strong product and technical taste
• Significant equity upside and the opportunity to build something that meaningfully changes how infrastructure engineers work
• High autonomy and the mandate to build the engineering culture and organization the right way

This is a confidential search. All inquiries will be handled with discretion.