Staff DevOps Engineer

Cast & Crew

. Serve as a technical anchor for the platform engineering practice .

Posted 9/21/2026full-timeRemote • California • United StatesLead💰 $190,000 - $235,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in DevOps and platform engineering, with a strong focus on CI/CD pipeline design, Kubernetes management, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices. Proven ability to mentor engineers, drive platform reliability, and implement observability solutions.

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Kubernetes ManagementAzure DevOps PipelinesCI/CD Systems DesignInfrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CDK)Observability Platforms (New Relic, Datadog)

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Hard Skills

KubernetesCI/CD Pipeline DesignInfrastructure-as-CodePythonBashGoYAML Pipeline AuthoringDockerHelmFeature Flag Patterns

Soft Skills

Excellent Written CommunicationMentoring

Tools & Technologies

Azure DevOpsAWS EKSNew RelicDatadogPagerDutyConfluence

Industry Keywords

DevOpsPlatform EngineeringMicroservice ArchitecturesSREFinOps

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureKubernetesNode.jsPythonTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as a technical anchor for the platform engineering practice
Design and evolve CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, including pipeline-as-code standards, templating strategies, and artifact promotion workflows
Own the health and evolution of AWS EKS clusters, including node lifecycle, autoscaling, networking, RBAC, and cluster upgrades
Design and enforce Infrastructure-as-Code practices and champion GitOps patterns
Drive platform reliability improvements using observability data from New Relic in partnership with SRE
Define and maintain golden-path templates for containerized workloads, including Dockerfile standards and Helm chart libraries
Partner with engineering teams to onboard services and reduce toil through automation
Act as an escalation point for complex infrastructure incidents through PagerDuty
Participate in the on-call rotation and lead post-incident reviews
Identify recurring failure modes and drive systemic fixes to reduce page volume and MTTR
Maintain runbooks and platform documentation in Confluence
Define and socialize DevOps standards across the engineering organization
Conduct architecture reviews and provide technical guidance
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through pairing, code review, and knowledge sharing
Identify tooling gaps and build business cases for platform investments

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of DevOps or platform engineering experience
At least 2 years operating at a Staff or Principal level in an organization of 100+ engineers
Deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, including troubleshooting workloads, networking, storage, and cluster operations at scale
Experience with AWS EKS preferred
Strong command of Azure DevOps Pipelines, including YAML pipeline authoring, library management, service connections, and environment promotion gates
Proven experience designing and maintaining CI/CD systems for microservice architectures with multiple independent teams
Experience operating observability platforms such as New Relic or Datadog
Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go
Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK
Familiarity with feature flag patterns and progressive delivery; Unleash or equivalent is a plus
Excellent written communication skills
Preferred: experience with data engineering or ML infrastructure workloads on Kubernetes
Preferred: background contributing to or maintaining internal developer portals such as Backstage
Preferred: familiarity with FinOps practices and AWS cost attribution and optimization
Preferred: experience in SRE-adjacent roles and comfort with SLO/SLI definition and error budget policy

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive medical coverage
Dental coverage
Vision coverage
401(k) match
Generous PTO
Paid parental leave
Health and wellness programs
Tuition reimbursement
Employee discounts