Staff DevOps Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Act as a technical cornerstone for the platform engineering discipline.

• Design and enhance CI/CD pipelines within Azure DevOps, including standards for pipeline-as-code, templating strategies, and workflows for artifact promotion.

• Oversee the health and development of AWS EKS clusters, focusing on node lifecycle management, autoscaling, networking, RBAC, and cluster upgrades.

• Create and enforce Infrastructure-as-Code methodologies while promoting GitOps practices.

• Propel platform reliability enhancements using observability data from New Relic in collaboration with SRE.

• Define and maintain standard templates for containerized workloads, encompassing Dockerfile benchmarks and Helm chart libraries.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to onboard services and minimize manual processes through automation.

• Serve as an escalation point for complex infrastructure incidents through PagerDuty.

• Participate in the on-call rotation and lead post-incident analysis.

• Identify recurring failure patterns and implement systemic solutions to decrease page volume and mean time to recovery (MTTR).

• Maintain runbooks and documentation for the platform in Confluence.

• Establish and promote DevOps standards throughout the engineering organization.

• Conduct architecture evaluations and offer technical guidance.

• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through pairing, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.

• Identify gaps in tooling and create business cases for platform investments.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps or platform engineering.

• A minimum of 2 years working at a Staff or Principal level within an organization of over 100 engineers.

• Extensive hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, including troubleshooting workloads, networking, storage, and cluster operations at scale.

• Experience with AWS EKS is preferred.

• Strong proficiency in Azure DevOps Pipelines, including YAML pipeline creation, library management, service connections, and environment promotion gates.

• Demonstrated experience in designing and maintaining CI/CD systems for microservice architectures involving multiple independent teams.

• Experience with observability platforms such as New Relic or Datadog.

• Proficiency in programming languages like Python, Bash, or Go.

• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK.

• Understanding of feature flag methodologies and progressive delivery; experience with Unleash or similar tools is a plus.

• Excellent written communication abilities.

• Preferred: experience with data engineering or machine learning infrastructure workloads on Kubernetes.

• Preferred: background in contributing to or maintaining internal developer portals like Backstage.

• Preferred: knowledge of FinOps practices and AWS cost attribution and optimization.

• Preferred: experience in roles adjacent to SRE, with comfort in defining SLO/SLI and managing error budget policies.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• 401(k) matching program.

• Generous paid time off (PTO).

• Paid parental leave.

• Health and wellness initiatives.

• Tuition reimbursement program.

• Employee discounts.