Principal DevOps Engineer
About The Position
Hubstaff is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to help shape the future of their cloud platform. This is a high-impact, fully remote role for an experienced infrastructure engineer who enjoys building secure, scalable, and highly automated systems. The engineer will partner with the CTO, architects, and engineering teams to improve reliability, security, developer experience, and platform scalability across their global SaaS platform. This role focuses on solving complex infrastructure challenges, automating processes, and building internal platforms to enhance engineering team velocity. The ideal candidate enjoys building secure, scalable cloud platforms, automating infrastructure, and solving complex engineering challenges.
Requirements
- Built and operated production cloud infrastructure at scale using AWS (GCP experience is a plus).
- Expertise in Terraform, Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, Helm, and modern GitOps practices.
- Experience building reliable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or similar tools.
- Experience supporting production PostgreSQL, Redis, and distributed systems.
- Implemented monitoring and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, CloudWatch, or similar platforms.
- Understanding of networking, IAM, encryption, disaster recovery, and cloud security best practices.
- Comfortable supporting applications built with Ruby on Rails, Go, Rust, or Node.js.
- Enjoy solving complex infrastructure problems through automation and ownership.
Nice To Haves
- Helped scale infrastructure for a high-growth SaaS product.
- Built or evolved a platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps function.
- Led cloud modernization or infrastructure transformation initiatives.
- Worked with GitOps, service mesh technologies, or serverless platforms.
- Built infrastructure for data platforms or ETL workloads.
- Thrived in a fully remote, async-first engineering culture.
Responsibilities
- Design and operate scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP.
- Build and improve Kubernetes, Linux, and cloud networking environments.
- Standardize infrastructure using Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm, and GitOps practices.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.
- Build monitoring, logging, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, CloudWatch, and Better Stack.
- Strengthen security, disaster recovery, and platform resilience.
- Drive platform strategy while remaining hands-on with implementation.
- Improve developer productivity through automation and self-service infrastructure.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation based on experience, skills, and location.
- Permanent, full-time employment.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
No Education Listed
