Head of Infrastructure Services (Remote, Global)

Crossref, the non-profit that runs the DOI and metadata infrastructure for scholarly communications, is hiring a Head of Infrastructure Services. The role is remote and global, with partial overlap with working hours in European time zones expected. The Head of Infrastructure Services guides Crossref's infrastructure strategy and oversees the reliability, scalability, security and resilience of its systems, leads the infrastructure team, owns the technology roadmap for infrastructure, and takes part in organisation-wide strategy. Crossref lists the salary at 120,000 USD or local equivalent. Applicants need at least five years of technical leadership experience with a background in DevOps, SRE or software development, deep Linux systems expertise, experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure, proficiency with infrastructure-as-code, solid web infrastructure knowledge and strong communication skills, and should be comfortable balancing hands-on technical work with people leadership and cross-team collaboration. Freshness evidence: Crossref's own posting is dated 2026-09-01 (crossref.org/jobs/2026-09-01-head-of-infrastructure-services), reposted to the Code4Lib job board on Sep 2, 2026 and listed in the September 2026 Hacker News hiring thread.