Senior / Staff DevOps Engineer
$200,000–$225,000 year
Remote · United States
Job Summary
Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred) using infrastructure-as-code with emphasis on repeatability, security, and cost efficiency. Own and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines; build and maintain observability across the platform; strengthen security posture including IAM, encryption, and vulnerability management; drive compliance readiness across SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA; lead incident response and on-call rotation; define reliability targets and capacity planning; leverage AI-powered tooling to accelerate infrastructure-as-code, automation, and internal tooling; partner with engineering to improve developer experience and deployment velocity; foster a culture of operational excellence, reliability, security, and continuous improvement; set technical direction for platform and infrastructure and mentor engineers.
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering within a software engineering organization
- Deep expertise with a major cloud provider (GCP preferred) and strong understanding of networking, security, and distributed systems
- Strong hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, and/or CloudFormation) and configuration management
- Production experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, or ECS) and with building robust CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or similar)
- Proficiency with observability and monitoring stacks (Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch, or equivalent)
- Solid scripting and programming skills (Python, Go, Bash, or TypeScript/Node) to build automation and tooling
- Strong grasp of cloud security best practices: IAM and least-privilege, secrets management, encryption, network security, and vulnerability management
- Hands-on experience supporting compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA including control implementation, evidence and audit readiness, and compliance automation
- Proficiency with AI-powered development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent; demonstrated ability to accelerate infrastructure and automation work with them
- Experience leading incident response and participating in an on-call rotation for production systems
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to document systems clearly and write actionable runbooks
- Experience working in a startup environment is required
- Experience managing or collaborating with distributed teams is essential
- Familiarity with identity verification products or AI/ML-based solutions is a plus
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