Devops Engineer - SDE-2
joindevops
Job Description
What Makes This Different
- Greenfield Opportunity: Design our platform architecture from first principles, making technology choices that will define our engineering culture
- Direct Impact: Your work directly affects every engineer's productivity and our ability to serve customers. When you improve deployment time by 50%, everyone feels it
- Full Ownership: Own the entire platform stack - from infrastructure to developer tools. No bureaucracy, no legacy systems, just building the right thing
- Shape Engineering Culture: Define how we approach security, reliability, and developer experience. Your practices become our standards
Key Responsibilities
- Foundation Building
- Architect our cloud platform on GCP from scratch, making crucial decisions on everything from network topology to data encryption strategies
- Design and implement our first proper CI/CD pipeline that takes us from 30-minute deployments to sub-5 minute deployments
- Build our infrastructure-as-code foundation using Terraform, establishing patterns that will be used for years
- Security & Compliance Architecture
- Lead our SOC2 compliance journey by building security into every layer of our infrastructure
- Implement customer-managed encryption and zero-trust networking as foundational principles, not afterthoughts
- Create automated security scanning and remediation systems that make compliance invisible to developers
- Developer Platform Creation
- Build the self-service platform that lets developers provision infrastructure in minutes, not days
- Create golden paths that make the secure, scalable choice the default choice
- Design observability systems that give developers superpowers in production
- Scale Preparation
- Architect systems that can handle 100x growth without major rewrites
- Build cost optimization into our DNA - making smart resource decisions early
- Create disaster recovery and backup systems before we need them
You're Right For This If You
- Want to be "the DevOps person" everyone comes to, not just another engineer on the team
- Get excited about making architectural decisions that will matter for years
- Believe infrastructure should be invisible when it works and helpful when it doesn't
- Can balance startup speed with enterprise reliability
- Want to build the platform you wish you had at your last company
What You'll Build in Year One
- Complete infrastructure migration to Infrastructure-as-Code
- Sub-5 minute deployments with automatic rollbacks
- 99.9% uptime with comprehensive monitoring
- Full SOC2 compliance with automated controls
- Self-service platform used by every engineer daily
- 50% reduction in infrastructure costs through optimization
Technical Requirements
- Deep expertise with GCP services and cloud architecture
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