Staff DevOps Engineer, Developer Experience (DevEx)

This is a senior technical leadership role focused on building the platforms, tooling, and workflows that enable engineering teams to deliver software reliably at scale.
You will define multi-quarter platform strategy across development, testing, deployment, and operations for cloud-based services and data platforms.
The role combines hands-on systems engineering with architecture, platform product thinking, and organization-wide technical influence.
You will build self-service developer experiences that reduce infrastructure complexity, cognitive load, and operational friction.
A major focus will be Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, GitOps, observability, security, and cost optimization across AWS and GCP environments.
You will also help establish effective and secure practices for AI-assisted and agentic engineering workflows across the broader organization.
This is an opportunity to shape the engineering “paved road,” mentor senior engineers, and make reliable, secure delivery the default across a growing technology organization.

• 10+ years of overall engineering experience, including meaningful hands-on software development experience in Go, Python, Java, or similar languages.
• 7+ years of experience designing, building, and operating cloud infrastructure at significant scale.
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership across multiple teams through architecture decisions, RFCs, platform strategy, and cross-functional influence.
• Deep hands-on experience designing and operating multi-account, multi-cluster Kubernetes platforms in production, particularly EKS and/or GKE environments supporting dozens or more services or clusters.
• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform and Crossplane, combined with organizational-scale GitOps practices using Flux, Argo CD, or comparable technologies.
• Extensive experience designing and operating CI/CD platforms that support high release velocity while maintaining strong security and governance controls, with GitLab CI/CD experience preferred.
• Hands-on experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio in multi-cluster environments, including security and traffic policies.
• Strong experience building and operating observability platforms using technologies such as Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana, Loki, Mimir, or Thanos, with a strong focus on cost efficiency.
• Working knowledge of container and software supply-chain security, including image scanning, hardened base images, vulnerability remediation, and related practices.
• Experience owning or substantially contributing to cloud cost governance and FinOps initiatives.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted and agentic development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or equivalent, along with the ability to establish practical approaches for safe organizational adoption.
• Strong understanding of SLIs, SLOs, alerting, and incident response, including experience leading blameless postmortems rather than simply participating in them.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence through technical documentation, architecture reviews, presentations, and collaborative decision-making.
• Ability to work effectively across engineering, data, security, and product organizations and translate complex infrastructure challenges into scalable solutions.
• Experience supporting data pipeline and batch-processing platforms such as Airflow, EMR, or Dataproc is a plus.