Senior DevOps Engineer

A24New York, NY
18h$125,000 - $175,000Hybrid

About The Position

A24 is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our A24 Labs team, a technology startup within A24 Films. As a DevOps engineer in A24 Labs, you’ll care deeply about the systems you build and the teams who rely on them. You’ll exercise autonomy and sound judgment while collaborating closely with stakeholders and engineers, sharing knowledge, and mentoring others to deliver resilient, scalable, secure infrastructure together.This role is based in our New York City office, though remote unicorns (who check most of the qualifications) are welcome to apply.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of relevant experience as a platform engineer
  • Strong hands-on experience operating production systems on AWS
  • ECS management, scaling, and optimization
  • CloudFormation (Copilot a plus)
  • Cloudfront, edge caching, and WAF management
  • CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions
  • Docker build optimization, production/development parity
  • DevOps automation and shell scripting
  • Observability, monitoring, and alerting (CloudWatch a must, HoneyBadger a plus)
  • Postgres (RDS, performance tuning, connection management, replication)
  • Production / staging parity, feature-branch deployments, and consistent build pipelines
  • Asynchronous task processing (Celery, SQS, MQ)

Nice To Haves

  • Python and/or Django experience
  • Celery and background job systems
  • Frontend build tooling (e.g. Vite)
  • AWS Copilot experience

Responsibilities

  • Improving CI/CD speed, reliability, and consistency across services
  • Standardizing and auditing Docker images and build pipelines
  • Designing and refining ECS autoscaling alarms
  • Improving Postgres performance, connection pooling, and query efficiency
  • Implementing and refining feature-branch deploy workflows
  • Improving CloudFront and edge caching strategies
  • Strengthening production / staging parity across environments
  • Expanding observability and alerting coverage
  • Improving PII scrubbing and data-handling safeguards

Benefits

  • annual performance bonus, including both cash and equity components
  • competitive healthcare
  • other employee benefits
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