# Senior Production Engineer

**Company:** [Lightspark](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/lightspark)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $200k – $238k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, Monitoring, Logging, Database Access, Authentication, Infrastructure As Code, Site Reliability
**Posted:** 2026-08-19

> The Production Engineer will build and operate secure, scalable, and reliable infrastructure and production services, while developing engineering frameworks and supporting on-call operations. The role requires 5+ years of production, site reliability, or DevOps experience and familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, build, scale, secure, and maintain production services.
- Write or improve code frameworks for monitoring, logging, database access, and authentication.
- Build and optimize core infrastructure to support new features and functionality.
- Join the on-call rotation, support software engineers, and debug complex problems.
- Collaborate across technical and cross-functional teams.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of production, site reliability, or DevOps engineering experience.
- Experience writing high-quality, well-tested code.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code solutions.
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
- Experience programming in high-level languages such as Python is preferred.
- A computer science degree or equivalent experience is ideal but not required.
- Openness to relocate to Los Angeles, California, or ability to travel to the LA office monthly while working remotely.

## Compensation
- Salary range: $200,000-$238,000 annually.

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