Staff DevOps Engineer

Remote (United States)

Job Details

Location: United States

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience: 10+ years in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Platform Engineering

Core Areas: AWS Cloud Infrastructure, Terraform & Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes & Docker, CI/CD & GitOps, Observability & SLOs, Incident Response & Reliability Engineering, Cloud Security & Compliance, High-Availability Distributed Systems

Compensation: $180,000–$220,000 annually; equity opportunities available

About the Role

This Staff DevOps Engineer position focuses on designing, operating, and scaling cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and reliability systems supporting a real-time, high-throughput trading platform. The role provides hands-on technical leadership across AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes operations, infrastructure automation, CI/CD delivery, and production reliability, with ownership of systems that require high availability, low latency, and secure software releases.

The position involves close collaboration with backend engineering, security, and compliance teams to establish platform standards, strengthen observability, improve operational resilience, and support CFTC-regulated exchange infrastructure. Key technologies include Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, alongside automation and performance optimization for distributed production environments.

What You'll Do

• Design, provision, maintain, and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform or equivalent Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools across production, staging, and development environments.
• Operate and scale Kubernetes clusters, managing upgrades, autoscaling, networking, troubleshooting, resource allocation, and infrastructure cost optimization.
• Build, maintain, and improve end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for automated builds, testing, deployment, and reliable software delivery.
• Implement safe deployment strategies, including canary releases, blue/green deployments, and rapid rollback procedures to reduce production risk.
• Develop comprehensive observability capabilities using metrics, centralized logging, distributed tracing, dashboards, and actionable alerting aligned with service-level objectives (SLOs) for latency and availability.
• Manage and optimize infrastructure supporting event-driven and real-time distributed systems, including Kafka, SQL and NoSQL databases, caching layers, and WebSocket edge services.
• Participate in production on-call rotations, lead incident response, troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues, and conduct blameless postmortems to implement lasting reliability improvements.
• Partner with security and compliance teams to implement identity and access controls, secrets management, least-privilege permissions, audit logging, vulnerability management, and disaster recovery practices aligned with CFTC-regulated requirements.
• Plan infrastructure capacity, conduct performance and scalability testing, and prepare critical systems for high-volume sports events and periods of elevated transaction activity.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks, improve infrastructure management workflows, and reduce manual intervention across production environments.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership in cloud architecture, platform engineering standards, production operations, and secure software delivery practices.
• Collaborate with backend engineers to improve deployment efficiency, infrastructure performance, and the reliability of low-latency trading services.
• Create and maintain operational documentation, technical procedures, incident response runbooks, and knowledge-sharing resources to support engineering teams.

Qualifications

Required Experience

• 10+ years of professional experience in DevOps Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Platform Engineering, supporting production systems at scale.
• Extensive hands-on experience designing, deploying, operating, and troubleshooting cloud infrastructure in complex production environments.
• Demonstrated experience managing containerized applications and Kubernetes platforms in production, including cluster administration, scaling, and reliability optimization.
• Proven experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation workflows at scale.
• Practical experience supporting distributed, event-driven, low-latency, and real-time production services.
• Experience with production incident management, on-call operations, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems.

Required Skills

• Deep expertise in AWS or equivalent cloud platforms, including cloud networking, Identity and Access Management (IAM), compute infrastructure, and managed data services.
• Strong production-level proficiency with Kubernetes and Docker, including cluster operations, networking, autoscaling, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
• Advanced knowledge of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or comparable tools, configuration management, and GitOps-style infrastructure workflows.
• Ability to design, implement, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or similar deployment and orchestration tools.
• Strong observability engineering skills using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or comparable monitoring platforms, including metrics, logs, tracing, dashboards, and SLO-driven alerting.
• Solid scripting and programming capabilities in Go or Python, with Go preferred, alongside strong Linux administration and networking fundamentals.
• Experience operating Kafka, SQL and NoSQL databases, caching infrastructure, and supporting services for high-throughput, low-latency systems.
• Working knowledge of cloud security practices, including secrets management, least-privilege access, vulnerability scanning, secure access controls, and audit logging.
• Understanding of infrastructure reliability, capacity planning, performance testing, disaster recovery, and operational automation.
• Strong technical communication skills, including the ability to explain architectural decisions, operational risks, and engineering tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proactive problem-solving skills, adaptability, and the ability to take ownership of complex infrastructure and reliability challenges.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting trading platforms, exchanges, fintech infrastructure, or other high-throughput regulated production systems.
• Background in prediction markets, sports betting technology, regulated exchanges, or environments subject to CFTC or similar regulatory requirements.
• Familiarity with risk management, fraud prevention, Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), or financial settlement systems.
• Experience helping scale engineering teams through hiring, technical mentorship, and organizational growth in a startup environment.

Benefits

• Equity opportunities providing potential participation in long-term organizational growth.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Remote work flexibility within the United States.
• Opportunity to influence cloud architecture, infrastructure standards, engineering practices, and technical decisions supporting a regulated, high-throughput trading platform.
• Hands-on technical leadership responsibilities with direct ownership of critical production infrastructure and reliability initiatives.