Senior DevOps Engineer

Here are the problems you’ll be solving

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping, securing, and scaling our cloud infrastructure. You will empower our engineering teams with more efficient development environments, drive cost savings, and fortify our system’s security posture. Through a combination of strategy, execution, and hands-on development, you’ll enable faster deployments and a more resilient, observable platform.

Responsibilities

Ownership is a cornerstone of the employee experience. With that, we take pride in fostering an environment where our teammates can take the initiative for their growth and the success of their team & organization. Here are some responsibilities this role will own.

• Infrastructure Ownership: Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure using IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools like Pulumi and Terraform to support scalable and secure application environments.
• Security & Compliance: Audit existing infrastructure for vulnerabilities, drive security best practices, and ensure system compliance to protect against security threats.
• Deployment Automation: Own and streamline the CI/CD process using tools like GitHub Actions to enable faster, safer, and more consistent releases.
• Observability & Monitoring: Lead efforts to improve observability using Datadog, Grafana, and other tools, ensuring uptime and proactive issue detection.
• Technical Enablement: Support the engineering team’s development workflow by creating efficient, isolated development environments and optimizing inter-service communication.

Growth opportunities

• Play a key role in shaping our DevOps strategy, including security, automation, and operational best practices.
• Opportunity to work with advanced AWS services, learn emerging IaC technologies, and support large-scale, high-traffic systems.
• Drive cost savings, reduce deployment times, and increase security—directly impacting company efficiency and growth.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a DevOps engineer, working in agile environments
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Active team player, self-starter, and multitasker who can quickly adjust priorities
• Willingness to be in office 3 days a week
• Fluency in AWS infrastructure, including ECS, S3, networking, and managed services.
• Experience with the following (or similar) technologies: Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi/Terraform), Datadog, Grafana, one backend programming language (JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, etc.)

Nice-to-Haves:

• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes to manage and deploy containers at scale.
• Ability to audit, test, and strengthen security controls within infrastructure and application layers.
• Experience with event-driven infrastructure, queuing systems, and tools like Kafka or AWS SNS/SQS.
• Experience in load testing and traffic simulations to ensure system scalability and reliability.

Compensation

As a part of our commitment to transparency, we use a market-based formula that provides consistency across roles & experience levels and publish all of our compensation data internally for our team. Here is the annual salary for this role.

• Senior DevOps Engineer II: $178,000

In our initial conversation, we’ll discuss what level best aligns with your experience.

Interview Flow

1. Apply

Apply and look for a response from our team about the next steps.

2. Intro interview with people team

Our recruiter will give you a call to learn more about you and answer any questions you might have about our team or the role.

3. Technical Interview with hiring manager

This will be a high-level conversation with your future manager. You’ll meet with them to dive into the details of the position and your experience.

4. Technical interview with the hiring team

We’ll dive deeper into your technical abilities by meeting with your future teammates and completing a collaborative technical assessment.

5. Values interview with collaborative teams

Chat with two people who work collaboratively with your role to give us a clear idea of how you’ll work with others.

6. Leadership interview

Last but not least, you’ll meet with one of our co-founders to make sure your values and career goals align well with our team.