DevOps Platform R&D Engineer – rednote

rednote • Palo Alto, CA

43d • $200,000 - $400,000

About The Position

We are seeking a DevOps Platform R&D Engineer to drive the rollout, integration, localization, and operational support of DevOps and high-availability platforms across international regions. This role involves evaluating infrastructure differences, designing adaptation plans, supporting the adoption of internal DevOps platforms, and implementing high-availability capabilities. You will also participate in production operations, incident response, and collaborate closely with central R&D teams and international infrastructure, networking, security, and business teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, cloud platforms, or infrastructure engineering, with strong delivery and troubleshooting capabilities.
• Solid understanding of Linux, computer networking, and common infrastructure components. Able to independently perform deployment, configuration, and issue diagnosis.
• Familiar with cloud-native and Infrastructure-as-Code technologies, such as Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform.
• Proficient in at least one programming or scripting language, such as Go, Java, Python, or Shell. Able to build automation tools and read/debug backend service code.
• Familiar with at least one major public cloud or enterprise private cloud environment. Understand concepts such as multi-region deployment, network connectivity, access control, and security isolation.
• Familiar with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems.
• Fluent in both English and Chinese, with the ability to communicate effectively in a cross-region, international team environment.
• Strong ownership, execution, and communication skills. Able to translate central platform designs into stable, maintainable implementations in local international environments.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with KubeVela is a plus.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry, or similar tools is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Drive the rollout, integration, localization, and operational support of DevOps and high-availability platforms across international regions.
• Evaluate infrastructure differences across international public cloud, private cloud, and data center environments, including compute, networking, storage, Kubernetes, security, and compliance requirements. Design and implement practical adaptation plans.
• Support the international adoption of internal DevOps platforms, including service release systems, change management platforms, and large-scale operations tooling. Improve CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and release operations workflows.
• Implement high-availability capabilities for international environments, including incident response playbooks, failover mechanisms, disaster recovery validation, and chaos engineering practices. Track remediation actions and continuously improve service reliability.
• Participate in production operations and incident response for international environments. Quickly identify and troubleshoot issues related to releases, infrastructure, and platform integration, and drive root-cause analysis and closed-loop improvements.
• Maintain deployment guides, operational runbooks, incident response playbooks, and standard operating procedures to improve delivery quality and operational efficiency across international regions.
• Work closely with central platform R&D teams, as well as international infrastructure, networking, security, and business teams. Manage project progress, dependencies, and risks, and provide feedback to improve platform capabilities for international scenarios.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level