Senior Devops Engineer

Who you are

• 5+ years in a Production Engineering, SRE, or Platform Engineering role at a SaaS product company
• 3+ years of hands-on Kubernetes in production - not just deployment, but operating and scaling it
• 2+ years with IaC tools - Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent at real scale
• Experience managing production databases and queues - PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, or similar
• Proficiency in at least one general-purpose language - Python, Go, or Ruby
• Strong monitoring and alerting fundamentals - you build the systems that catch problems before users do
• GCP experience - this is our primary cloud
• CKA certification or deep Kubernetes ecosystem knowledge - CNIs, service meshes, operators, ingresses
• Experience with RabbitMQ or Kafka at scale
• Familiarity with GitOps workflows - ArgoCD or equivalent

What the job involves

• We're looking for a Senior Devops Engineer to own the infrastructure behind one of the world's largest location analytics platforms - from CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments to developer tooling and observability
• This is a hands-on, end-to-end ownership role at the intersection of scale, reliability, and engineering velocity
• Own and evolve Placer's GCP infrastructure end-to-end - multi-cluster GKE, Terraform via Atlantis, ArgoCD GitOps
• Drive CI/CD pipeline reliability and developer tooling - reduce friction, increase release velocity
• Manage production and development environments across multiple workloads with high availability requirements
• Build and maintain observability systems - dashboards, alerting, and incident response that keep the team ahead of failures
• Identify and resolve performance, scalability, and reliability bottlenecks before they become incidents
• Collaborate directly with engineering teams to shape infrastructure decisions from design through deployment
• Introduce new tools, standards, and frameworks - you define the approach, not just execute it

Benefits

• Work with, and learn from, top-notch talent
• Fully remote