Senior DevOps Engineer
About The Position
Recharge is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer for its Infrastructure Team, which owns the design, operation, and reliability of the company’s cloud-native infrastructure platform. This hands-on role calls for deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Linux, networking, and Google Cloud Platform. The engineer is expected to work independently, mentor less-senior engineers, and help shape how the team works as well as what it delivers. The role involves designing, maintaining, and supporting the product platform and operational runtime throughout the lifecycle of infrastructure components. The engineer will implement technologies to address emerging technical challenges and ensure the team has high-quality documentation. They will help improve engineering standards, tooling, processes, and team practices, and troubleshoot production issues and performance bottlenecks across the stack. The position also includes using AI to improve team productivity and participating in a 24x7 weekly on-call rotation, including incident response and postmortems.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of experience with Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and related technologies.
- Knowledge of autoscaling and other cluster essentials.
- At least 5 years of experience with system observability.
- At least 5 years of experience in cloud-native environments.
- Experience with Git, source-code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and supporting technologies.
- Fundamental understanding of Linux and GNU tooling.
- Fundamental understanding of container technologies and build processes.
- Fundamental understanding of networking concepts.
- Familiarity with LLMs and supporting technologies, including inference serving, vector databases, and GPU workloads, both hosted and self-hosted.
- Experience and willingness to deep dive into code, such as Python, Node, JavaScript, or Vue.
- Ability to engineer simple solutions to complex problems.
- Willingness to participate in a 24x7 weekly on-call rotation.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and Splunk.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform, which is preferred; additional cloud environments are a plus.
- GitLab experience is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Live by and champion Recharge’s values of accountability, collaboration, iteration, and attention to detail.
- Design, maintain, and support the product platform and operational runtime throughout the lifecycle of infrastructure components.
- Recommend and implement technologies to address technical challenges, and maintain world-class team documentation.
- Champion sound development, security, technical-debt, TDD, and agile practices; improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
- Troubleshoot production issues and performance bottlenecks across the stack and help meet maintenance obligations.
- Design or optimize processes using AI, such as LLM-assisted development, automated documentation, and issue resolution, to improve team productivity.
- Participate in a 24x7 weekly on-call rotation, owning incident response and postmortems.
- Mentor less-senior engineers and contribute to how the team works.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Retirement plan with employer contribution.
- Flexible Time Off.
- Paid parental leave.
- Monthly Remote Life and Merchant stipends.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
