Engineering Manager, DevOps

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

📋 Description

• Lead and cultivate a DevOps team: Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers; establish clear expectations and foster an environment of ownership, high standards, and continuous improvement.

• Enhance platform reliability: Take responsibility for the health of CI/CD, deployment, and runtime infrastructure; boost availability, performance, and incident response through measurable SLOs and operational rigor.

• Foster self-service and automation: Develop developer-oriented tools to minimize toil (golden paths, paved roads, templates, and automation for common workflows).

• Advance CI/CD and release engineering: Refine build and deploy pipelines, change management, release safety (progressive delivery, rollbacks), and supply-chain security.

• Implement observability and monitoring: Establish and enhance logging, metrics, and alerting; create dashboards and guardrails that assist teams in understanding and improving system behavior.

• Infrastructure as code: Standardize and scale infrastructure management utilizing modern IaC patterns and review/approval workflows.

• Collaborate on security and compliance: Partner closely with security and compliance stakeholders to ensure secure-by-default systems and audit-ready practices.

• Foster cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with application teams to enhance deployability and operability, translating business priorities into an actionable roadmap.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience in engineering management: Minimum of 3 years leading and developing software engineers, including coaching, performance management, recruitment, and fostering healthy team practices.

• Extensive hands-on experience: Over 8 years of experience as an individual contributor in DevOps/SRE/platform/infrastructure or software engineering roles.

• Expertise in cloud and systems: Strong experience managing production systems in a major cloud environment (AWS preferred) and ensuring reliability and scalability.

• Proficiency in CI/CD and automation: Demonstrated experience in designing and operating modern build and deploy pipelines and automating operational workflows.

• Knowledge of observability: Experience with logging/metrics/alerting stacks (e.g., Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK/OpenSearch) and leveraging them for reliability enhancements.

• Infrastructure as code experience: Familiarity with Terraform, Pulumi, or similar tools and associated engineering practices (code review, testing, drift detection).

• Understanding of containers and runtime: Knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker; Kubernetes/ECS preferred).

• Strong communication skills: Ability to align stakeholders, articulate trade-offs, and drive execution across teams and functions.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance

• 100% remote-first culture. Work from anywhere in the US, with all full-time employees having WeWork access

• Unlimited PTO, including competitive vacation and holiday schedules

• Lifestyle stipends - Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend, in-home office setup stipend, and family planning assistance

• Salary top-up during military reserve duty

• Fully paid parental leave

• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel