Senior DevOps Engineer
Dropzone AI
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $170,000 - $190,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AzureCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaPrometheusPython
About the role
- Enhance production monitoring and observability in containerized environments
- Improve our infrastructure-as-code deployments (Pulumi) to prepare for scaling to the next customer growth inflection point.
- Develop and refine internal tooling to support efficiency and reliability.
- Strengthen the reliability, performance, and scalability of our core SOC analyst product, which automates human investigation techniques to analyze security alerts
- Participate actively in a 24x7 on-call rotation, maintaining high availability and rapid response
- Contribute to future expansion efforts to support multi-cloud infrastructure (GCP, Azure)
- Write new product features when interested and excited to do so
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a DevOps, Infrastructure, or Site Reliability Engineer with practical, hands-on depth
- Strong skills in performance monitoring (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana), distributed tracing, and observability, particularly in containerized environments
- Proven expertise in containerization technologies, especially Docker
- Excellent software development skills with Python, capable of writing robust, production-level code
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, including troubleshooting, identifying bottlenecks, and performance optimization
- Infrastructure-as-code experience (Pulumi preferred), maintaining fully automated CI/CD deployment pipelines
- Strong system administration and infrastructure management capabilities
- Deep familiarity with modern security best practices, common vulnerabilities, and securing distributed environments
- Ability to differentiate when a production-grade service is necessary versus implementing a one-time or temporary solution
- A strong opinion on emacs vs vi
Benefits
- company paid health insurance
- 401K Plan
- Self-Managed PTO
- parental leave
- more
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
performance monitoringdistributed tracingobservabilitycontainerizationDockerPythoninfrastructure-as-codeCI/CDsystem administrationinfrastructure management
Soft skills
problem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationcritical thinkingadaptability