DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ireland.

📋 Description

• Take ownership and enhance our DevOps and platform engineering capabilities, encompassing build and deployment pipelines, monitoring, infrastructure as code, and cost management.

• Develop and sustain CI/CD pipelines that prioritize security, scalability, and are designed to facilitate rapid product iterations while maintaining stability.

• Enhance observability through Datadog, GCP, and tailored dashboards, with a focus on achieving FinOps-oriented observability results.

• Establish and uphold FinOps governance, including showback and chargeback models, to promote cost accountability among engineering teams.

• Boost developer productivity by creating internal tools, reusable components, and streamlining infrastructure for other engineering teams.

• Assist teams in defining and measuring SLOs, setting the benchmark for evaluating system health and reliability.

• Act as a FinOps thought leader, partnering with Product and Engineering to identify the most cost-effective architectural patterns for new services and features.

• Play a pivotal role in molding our engineering culture, promoting DevOps best practices, and influencing our long-term DevOps strategy.

• Collaborate across product engineering, security, finance, and other teams to align technical expenditures with business unit economics and financial objectives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 6 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or software engineering roles, preferably within high-growth startup settings.

• Expertise in Python or Go, demonstrating solid software engineering fundamentals.

• Proven track record of owning production infrastructure and platform tooling, with exceptional debugging skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems and identify unexpected financial surges.

• Experience in designing and implementing highly secure and resilient infrastructure, particularly in environments with strict regulatory standards, such as those utilized by government bodies and major financial institutions.

• Extensive experience with Kubernetes and tools such as ArgoCD, Helm, and Terraform.

• Familiarity with GCP (preferred) or other significant cloud providers, with a strong emphasis on cloud cost management, maximizing reserved instances/savings plans, and applying cost anomaly detection.

• Practical experience with dedicated FinOps tools (e.g., Kubecost, AWS Cost Explorer, GCP Cloud Billing, DoIT Cloud Intelligence) or developing custom tools for cost allocation and reporting.

• Strong background in building CI/CD pipelines and internal developer tools from scratch.

• Hands-on experience with observability tools like Prometheus or Datadog, and involvement in an on-call rotation.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package in both cash and equity.

• Early exercise options available for all, including pre-vested.

• Work from anywhere: Embrace a remote-first culture.

• Flexible paid time off and a year-end break.

• Health, dental, and vision insurance coverage for employees and their dependents - *specific to the US and Canada*.

• 4% matching in 401k / RRSP - *specific to the US and Canada*.

• A MacBook Pro delivered directly to your home.

• One-time stipend for setting up a home office — desk, chair, screen, etc.

• Monthly meal stipend.

• Monthly social meetup stipend.

• Annual health and wellness stipend.

• Annual learning stipend.