Staff Engineer, DevOps

What You'll Do

• Architectural Leadership: Act as a subject matter expert, defining and driving architectural enhancements, design, and integration solutions across the platform utilizing serverless and containerization technologies.
• System Reliability: Take ownership of designing and building reliable systems, ensuring high standards for durability, availability, disaster recovery, and performance.
• Operational Excellence: Define, monitor, and enforce SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs, and establish proactive alerting and real-time dashboards for deep insights into system health.
• Automation and CI/CD Strategy: Work with the developer experience team to develop and evolve CI/CD workflows, automating tasks across the full software development lifecycle to significantly improve developer experience and efficiency.
• Mentorship and Best Practices: Serve as a top level technical mentor to senior and junior engineers, promoting and enforcing methodologies and best practices, including test-driven development and automated testing.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering, product, customer success, and other teams to identify and address complex technical challenges that have a company-wide impact.

What You'll Bring

• Extensive Experience: 8+ years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering role, with a track record of driving large-scale, high-impact projects.
• Technical Expertise: Deep expertise in cloud-native technologies, particularly with container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Advanced Tooling: Expertise in implementing monitoring and observability solutions, including tools like Grafana, Coralogix, AWS CloudWatch, and Open Telemetry (OTEL).
• CI/CD Mastery: Proven experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub) and a history of building and managing advanced automation pipelines.
• Deep Cloud Knowledge: A solid understanding of advanced AWS networking, security, and infrastructure concepts.
• Scripting and Automation: Expertise in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or Go.
• Exceptional Communication: Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Independent Leadership: Self-motivated and capable of working autonomously, taking initiative to identify and solve ambiguous, high-level problems.
• Problem-Solving: An analytical thinker with strong attention to detail and a proven ability to lead root-cause analysis and problem-solving efforts.
• Mentorship: A natural leader who enjoys guiding and upskilling other engineers.