Senior DevOps Engineer (San Francisco)

Join Our Team as Senior DevOps Engineer (San Francisco)

Join a fast-growing, venture-backed startup building mission-critical grid technology that helps prevent power outages and wildfires. Backed by $100 million in investment from top firms like Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global, and Y Combinator, the company is scaling its product, customer base, and engineering organization with urgency.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll own the cloud and Kubernetes foundation that keeps high-volume device telemetry, customer products, and engineering systems reliable. You’ll work across AWS, EKS, Kafka/MSK-style streaming, Terraform, GitOps, observability, security, cost, and incident response in a hands-on startup environment where senior engineers shape standards, reduce operational risk, and improve how teams ship. This is a high-ownership role responsible for the stability and scalability of critical IoT infrastructure for large energy companies.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS / Aurora Postgres, MSK, S3, VPC, IAM).
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters (EKS) across multiple environments, and deploy applications using Argo CD with GitOps best practices.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, including reusable workflows, build/push/scan flows for ECR, and frontend deployment pipelines.
• Operate and tune Kafka-based event streaming on Amazon MSK for high-throughput, low-latency device data pipelines.
• Define and manage Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Terragrunt, with reusable modules, sensible environment separation, and review-friendly plans.
• Manage identity and access across platforms with Auth0 / EntraID integrations, IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA), and short-lived credentials.
• Build and maintain observability with Grafana, Loki, Prometheus / Mimir, and related tooling so on-call engineers can quickly find and fix issues.
• Monitor and optimize infrastructure cost across environments, partnering with engineering teams on right-sizing, capacity planning, and waste reduction.
• Partner with our Cloud Security team to enforce security standards, integrate with SIEM tooling, and respond to vulnerabilities and incidents.
• Debug complex production issues across infrastructure, deployment, and networking layers, and turn the lessons learned into automation and runbooks.

Requirements

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering with production experience operating AWS infrastructure.
• Deep hands-on experience administering Kubernetes (EKS or equivalent) and deploying via GitOps (Argo CD or Flux).
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform; comfort with Terragrunt or a similar wrapper.
• Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably with GitHub Actions and reusable workflows.
• Production experience operating distributed systems such as Kafka (MSK).
• Strong understanding of networking, DNS, TLS, and security best practices, including IdP-driven access control (Auth0, EntraID, or similar).
• Solid experience with monitoring and logging stacks such as Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Mimir, or equivalents.
• Ability to debug complex production issues across infrastructure, deployment, and networking layers.
• Comfortable working in Linux environments with strong scripting skills (Python or Bash preferred for automation).
• Knowledge of version control workflows, automated testing, and release management.
• You are a US Citizen or Permanent Resident

Bonus Skills

Your application will have a higher chance of standing out if you have one (or more) of the following skills or experiences. - Experience operating Apollo Router / GraphQL federation gateways in production. - Experience operating Argo Workflows or similar Kubernetes-native job / pipeline runners in production. - Familiarity with Databricks or ML Ops pipelines for data and model deployment. - Experience designing, operating, and exercising Disaster Recovery (DR) environments, including cross-region replication, backups, and tested failover runbooks. - Experience with Tailscale or other zero-trust networking tools. - Experience supporting IoT / embedded fleets at scale, including secure device-to-cloud connectivity. - Experience in high-growth startup environments where you must wear many hats.

Location & Schedule

• Onsite role based in San Francisco, CA.
• Relocation support provided.

Benefits

We offer competitive benefits that help employees to thrive, grow and enjoy their lives. These benefits include: - Health, Dental and Vision insurance, free parking and a commuter allowance - Stock option plan - Conveniently located office — directly across the street from Pleasant Hill BART, close to the highway with parking provided