Staff DevOps Engineer — Developer Infrastructure - US (Remote)
$90,000–$100,000 year
Remote · New York City, New York, United States or US
Job Summary
Design and operate ephemeral development environments for agents and engineers, ensuring rapid setup and automated configurations. Own infrastructure-level quality gates for safe deployments, including automated load testing and security scans. Build tools for validating integration code and enhance CI/CD pipelines, prioritizing observability and operational controls. Requires senior expertise in DevOps roles, proficiency in Kubernetes and AWS, and strong experience with Terraform and CI/CD practices. Must demonstrate a track record in building developer tooling and effective communication across teams.
Required Qualifications
- 6–10+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE roles building and operating production systems at scale
- Expertise with Kubernetes (EKS) and AWS (IAM, VPC, ECR, SSM/Secrets Manager, S3, SQS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora)
- Strong IaC experience (Terraform preferred) and GitOps workflows (Argo CD or similar)
- Proven track record building ephemeral environments, developer tooling, or internal platforms (CLIs, scaffolding tools, developer portals)
- Experience with load testing frameworks (k6, Locust, Gatling, or similar) and automating performance gates in CI/CD pipelines
- Examples of building mock or stub infrastructure for integration testing at scale — containerized services, API mocking, dependency isolation
- CI/CD depth (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, or similar) including caching/parallelism, artifact management, test reliability, and pipeline observability
- Experience with release strategies (canary/blue-green, automated rollbacks) and progressive delivery
- Observability fundamentals (Datadog, OpenTelemetry)
Desired Qualifications
- Active user of AI development tools (Claude Code, Codex, etc) in your infrastructure workflow
- Excellent cross-team communicator who can translate platform constraints into developer-friendly solutions and documentation
- Ability to define SLIs/SLOs and wire them to delivery decisions
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