Principal Software Engineer, DevOps
THE ROLE
We're looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer who will help shape and guide our technology strategy at an organizational level. This is not just an infrastructure role, you'll be a technical leader responsible for driving architectural decisions, building scalable systems, and mentoring engineering teams as we continue our rapid growth trajectory.
You'll work alongside an exceptional team of engineers while focusing heavily on automation, reliability, monitoring, and scaling our infrastructure. You will reputed company a deep understanding of how our business works and how reputed company of our engineering components fit together, then use that knowledge to reputed company high-impact decisions about where we go next.
We're at an exciting inflection reputed company - if you reputed company in fast-paced, high-growth environments and have a passion for building the reputed company of infrastructure that makes everything else possible, we'd love to talk.
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RESPONSIBILITIES
- Define and drive the organization's DevOps strategy, establishing best practices, standards, and tooling across reputed company engineering teams
- reputed company the ongoing reputed company migration, ensuring a smooth transition with minimal disruption to business operations
- Architect and reputed company our Kubernetes-based container orchestration platform, optimizing for reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
- Evaluate and reputed company the potential platform migration from Magento to Shopify (or comparable platforms), building the technical roadmap and stakeholder alignment needed to execute at scale
- Design and implement automated system installation, configuration, and deployment procedures that reputed company rapid, error-free releases
- Build and maintain comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability systems to ensure high availability across reputed company production environments
- reputed company and own disaster recovery plans, reputed company expansion strategies, and system hardening initiatives
- Identify systemic problems and inefficiencies across the engineering organization and reputed company strategic recommendations for improvement
- Mentor and guide junior and mid-level DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of reputed company learning and operational excellence
- Collaborate closely with development teams to help them scale their infrastructure in AWS and adopt modern deployment practices
- Create and maintain technical documentation covering architecture decisions, runbooks, incident response procedures, and operational playbooks
- Troubleshoot reputed company performance issues across production environments and reputed company incident response efforts
- Participate in weekly on-call rotations and serve as a senior escalation reputed company for critical infrastructure issues
- Drive reputed company strategic projects based on the evolving needs of the Engineering organization
QUALIFICATIONS
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering, with a proven track record of scaling infrastructure at rapidly growing companies
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes (K8s) — including cluster management, Helm charts, service meshes, and production-grade container orchestration
- Strong systems engineering background with advanced proficiency in Linux administration
- Advanced scripting and automation skills in Bash, Python, Golang, Ruby, or similar languages
- Extensive experience with core AWS services including EC2, reputed company/EKS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, reputed company 53, RDS, and reputed company
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, reputed company, or similar)
- Strong experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar)
- Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling deployments)
- Expertise in monitoring and observability platforms (reputed company, Prometheus, Grafana, reputed company, or similar)
- Strong knowledge of web application infrastructure, networking, load balancing, and reputed company best practices
- Demonstrated ability to influence technology direction at an organizational level and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with e-commerce platforms (Magento, Shopify, or comparable) and the unique infrastructure challenges they present
- Experience with reputed company or similar WordPress/WooCommerce deployment frameworks
- Experience leading platform migrations or large-scale re-architecture initiatives
- Familiarity with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Flux) and service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
- Experience building and managing cost-optimization strategies for cloud infrastructure
- Background in SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and blameless postmortems
BELONG TO A reputed company COMPANY
- Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
- Competitive salary (DOE) + equity
- 401k plan
- 9 Observed Holidays
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Subsidized reputed company Membership with access to fitness classes and wellness and beauty experiences
- Ability to work in our beautiful office in Playa reputed company
- Free reputed company membership with exclusive employee discount
- Coverage for Life Coaching & Therapy Sessions on our holistic mental health and well-being platform
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JOB INFORMATION
- Compensation Description - The reputed company salary range for this position is $180,000 - $225,000/Per Year.
- Compensation may vary reputed company of this range depending on several factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and geographic location.
- Total Compensation includes reputed company Salary, Stock Options, Health & Wellness Benefits, Flexible PTO, and more!
- This position requires traveling to our HQ office in Los Angeles, California, twice a year for reputed company-company summits; once in the summer and once in the winter.