Senior Software Engineer, DevOps

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

📋 Description

• Develop and manage Amazon EKS clusters and self-hosted Kubernetes clusters on virtualized infrastructure.

• Take ownership of cluster provisioning, add-ons, upgrades, and ongoing operations.

• Construct AWS infrastructure using Python with AWS CDK across a multi-account organization.

• Oversee networking, IAM, DNS, compute, containers, databases, and storage infrastructures.

• Collaborate with Digital, Data Engineering, and other teams to provide environments, access, and pipelines.

• Assist teams in troubleshooting production issues.

• Create and maintain CI/CD workflows, reusable GitHub Actions, container build and release patterns, and GitOps deployments to Kubernetes.

• Engage in the on-call rotation and respond to incidents promptly.

• Document postmortems and ensure follow-through on incident resolutions.

• Develop dashboards and alerts for monitoring.

• Create self-service tooling and implement repeatable automation.

• Write runbooks, how-to guides, and design documentation.

• Report directly to the leader of the DevOps team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in DevOps, site reliability, platform, or infrastructure engineering, with hands-on responsibility for production systems.

• Practical experience in building and operating production workloads on AWS, covering IAM, VPC networking, EC2, EKS or ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, Route 53, and CloudWatch.

• Production experience with Kubernetes is essential, ideally with both EKS and self-managed clusters.

• Proficient in Python programming.

• Experience with infrastructure as code is required; familiarity with AWS CDK is preferred.

• Capable of reading, understanding, and making specific modifications to TypeScript.

• Experienced in creating pipelines with GitHub Actions or similar tools.

• Knowledge in building and securing container images.

• Familiarity with deploying using Helm and GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux.

• Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or CloudWatch.

• Participation in an on-call rotation for production systems is required.

• Strong Linux administration skills.

• Understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, TLS certificates, and VPN connectivity.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Candidates must have authorization to work in the United States on a permanent basis.

• AWS Associate or Professional certification, Rancher experience, or CKA certification are advantageous.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, resource-limited startup environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Life insurance

• Disability insurance

• Vacation

• 401k

• Eligibility for equity program

• Eligibility for discretionary annual incentive program