Senior DevOps/SRE Engineer

Responsibilities

Core reliability and infrastructure

• Own reliability, deployments, observability, and incident response across AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, Datadog, CI/CD, and networking.
• Maintain, optimize, and scale AWS infrastructure supporting backend, mobile, data, ML, and AI engineering teams.
• Own the infrastructure-as-code stack using Terraform/OpenTofu; AWS CDK experience is preferred.
• Favor open standards and swappable tooling to reduce vendor lock-in.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and handle interrupt-driven support.
• Improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness from investigation through implementation.

Compliance and security

• Own hands-on SOC 2 and PCI-DSS work by building and operating production systems that satisfy controls.
• Partner with security to close gaps, including network segmentation and traffic inspection.

CI/CD and deployments

• Make deployments and rollbacks easier, more predictable, and consistent.
• Consolidate and accelerate CI/CD pipelines supporting TypeScript/Node, Python, and Kotlin services.

AI infrastructure and product foundations

• Build internal AI infrastructure, including gateway and middleware layers, MCP integrations, knowledge graphs, and engineering tooling.
• Stand up greenfield infrastructure for new products without inheriting existing technical debt.

Requirements

• Strong DevOps/SRE experience and a genuine backend engineering background, including shipping production software.
• Hands-on AWS experience with observability and monitoring, CI/CD, compute, and networking.
• Production experience managing Kubernetes clusters in multiple environments.
• Experience with Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Experience building DevOps/infrastructure at an early-stage startup or scaling it during significant growth.
• Willingness to own SOC 2 and PCI-DSS compliance work.

Nice-to-haves

• AI/LLM tooling, MCP, model gateways, or internal AI developer platforms.
• SOC 2 or PCI-DSS experience, including remediation of a specific control or finding.
• Security engineering exposure.
• AWS CDK, especially TypeScript.
• Reducing vendor lock-in or migrating data stores at scale.

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary: $170,000–$225,000 annually.
• Potential bonus and equity participation.
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents from the first day.
• Up to $100 per month fitness reimbursement or complimentary LifeTime Fitness or Equinox membership.
• 401(k) with a 3.5% match and immediate vesting.
• Meal program for lunch and dinner.
• Pre-tax benefits, including a $1,000 HSA match.
• Life and accidental insurance.
• Flexible PTO.
• Employees are expected to work in the office five days per week, with flexibility for circumstances requiring remote work or adjusted schedules.