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Staff Software Engineer, DevOps and Platform

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full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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Salary

💰 $195,000 - $250,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AirflowAWSBigQueryCloudKubernetesLinuxTerraform

About the role

  • Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of our cloud-native infrastructure on AWS leveraging EKS, S3, IAM and more.
  • Improve and scale CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD.
  • Drive infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform and own infra observability using DataDog & Honeycomb.
  • Develop internal tooling and platform capabilities to accelerate engineering productivity.
  • Mentor and guide engineers to ensure application and infrastructure needs are tightly aligned.
  • Serve as technical lead for infrastructure projects and help shape long-term platform strategy.
  • Manage and tune our database infrastructure as application and business needs evolve.
  • Partner with security and compliance to meet HITRUST, SOC 2, and HIPAA standards.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, with 2+ years in a staff or lead role.
  • Deep expertise with Kubernetes & EKS, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native architecture.
  • Strong experience with AWS services, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and databases.
  • Production experience with CI/CD pipelines, especially CircleCI, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD.
  • Solid foundation in Linux systems, container orchestration, and networking.
  • Experience with monitoring, logging, and on-call practices for high-availability systems.
  • Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset—able to align platform vision with engineering and business needs.