Staff DevOps Engineer, Core Infrastructure Engineering

About the position

As a Staff DevOps Engineer within the Core Infrastructure Engineering team, you are essential in automating and scaling the systems and services that power our streaming platform. You will work with our SRE team, delivery teams and lead projects related to infrastructure automation, scaling, CICD, driving them forward to completion and ensuring that the platform processes, automation and best practices are being followed. In collaboration with other engineers, you develop tools and systems that support services and facilitate high-quality software delivery and architecture / infrastructure. You are expected to be highly collaborative working across teams to understand the needs, establish best practices and automate them whenever possible.

Responsibilities

• Automate and scale systems and services for the streaming platform.
• Work with SRE and delivery teams on infrastructure automation and scaling.
• Lead projects related to CICD and ensure best practices are followed.
• Develop tools and systems that support services and facilitate software delivery.
• Mentor other engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Requirements

• At least a Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology, information systems, or similar.
• 12+ years of relevant experience in DevOps and infrastructure management.
• 8+ years working in production environments, combining DevOps and software engineering.
• 5+ years of experience managing containerized infrastructure in ECS or Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in automation, creating reusable patterns and solutions.
• Expertise in GitOps practices and CI/CD, including tools like GHA & CodeDeploy.
• 5+ years experience in AWS and its major services such as ECS, S3, SQS, Lambda.
• Proficient in programming in TypeScript with familiarity of other languages such as Go or Python.
• Familiarity with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and non-relational databases (e.g., DynamoDB).
• Experience guiding software engineers in production best practices.
• Design and deployment experience with data sovereignty-driven designs (e.g., GDPR).

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of streaming video delivery, video encoding workflows, video origin architecture.
• Familiarity with big data and payments domain.
• Understand security concepts such as cryptography, authentication, authorization.
• Experience with Vault, Packer or other HashiCorp tools.
• Knowledge, or working experience with GCP.

Benefits

• Great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential.
• Flexible time off policies.
• Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance.
• Health Saving Account HSA program.
• Health care and dependent care FSA.
• 401(k) plan, with employer match.
• Employer paid commuter benefit.
• Support program for new parents.
• Pet insurance and some offices are pet friendly.