Senior DevOps Engineer

LILT • Washington, DC

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About The Position

AI is changing how the world communicates — and LILT is leading that transformation.
We're on a mission to make the world's information accessible to everyone, regardless of the language they speak. We use cutting-edge AI, machine translation, and human-in-the-loop expertise to translate content faster, more accurately, and more cost-effectively without compromising on brand, voice, or quality.
At LILT, we empower our teammates with leading tools, global collaboration, and growth opportunities to do their best work. Our company virtues—Work together, win together; Find a way or make one; Quicker than they expect; Quality is Job 1—guide everything we do. We are trusted by Intel Corporation, Canva, the United States Department of Defense, the United States Air Force, ASICS, and hundreds of global Enterprises. Backed by Sequoia, Intel Capital, and Redpoint, we’re building a category-defining company in a $50B+ global translation market being redefined by AI.
The Engineering Team at LILT
LILT is a high-performance, large-scale language translation system. We invest in and prioritize workflow (i.e., usability and interface design) and backend AI systems. Since the translation workforce is distributed worldwide, there are interesting cloud engineering problems to solve. We have a strong preference for building our own backend technology, so you’ll be implementing and working with the latest natural language processing (NLP) techniques and ideas.
What You’ll Do
LILT is seeking a world-class DevOps engineer to build highly reliable software systems. Your job will be to apply your software talents to our infrastructure and operations needs, including bare-metal Linux deployments and commercial deployments in GCP and AWS. Our system requires low latency worldwide, so you’ll continuously improve our multi-region configuration and help us expand into new regions. You will collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to support new and ongoing products. The person in this role may have technical leadership responsibility, depending on experience, and will collaborate to build the roadmap of the DevOps organization.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of experience as a Linux System Administrator, DevOps Engineer, or similar position.
• Strong knowledge of at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Bash).
• High proficiency with at least one configuration management/infrastructure as code (IaC) tool, preferably Terraform.
• Experience with GCP services such as Compute Engine, shared VPC, and data analytics or equivalents from other vendors.
• Solid understanding of Docker and hands-on experience with orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes or Swarm.
• Expertise in monitoring/alerting and maintaining high production availability
• Experience with CI/CD tools and concepts, such as Jenkins

Nice To Haves

• Experience in DevSecOps best practices, MLOps, GCP Landzone, and/or DB administration

Responsibilities

• Support technical operations in our development and production systems
• Deliver infrastructure engineering projects to support company initiatives
• Collaborate with our research and development teams to deliver software fast and reliably
• Secure our platform infrastructure and harden our on-premise builds
• Ensure high uptime and fast, multi-regional server and DB performance for the lilt.com production system
• Work with engineering teams to set, measure, and reach SLIs and SLOs for SLAs
• Contribute to infrastructure and engineering roadmap planning, set and attain quarterly OKRs
• Execute on the roadmap in sprints, and adhere to SCRUM best practices
• Introduce and implement new technologies and best practices in InfoSec, DevOps, and Site Reliability
• Support our self-managed customers on-site
• Technically lead a group of subject-matter experts

Benefits

• Competitive salary with the opportunity to earn on-target earnings (OTE), meaningful equity, 401(k) matching, and flexible time off plus company holidays.
• Employees receive coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance, and more. In addition, LILT pays for basic life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability.
• Paid parental leave is provided after 6 months.
• Monthly lifestyle benefit stipend via the Fringe platform to allow employees to customize benefits to their lifestyle.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed