Senior DevOps Engineer, US Pacific Time

Scribe • San Francisco, CA

18d • $150,000 - $200,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

We're seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to architect, maintain, and scale our critical infrastructure. You'll be responsible for ensuring system reliability, optimizing performance, and implementing modern deployment strategies that enable our engineering teams to ship with confidence. This role requires deep technical expertise across AWS, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps tooling, combined with strategic thinking about capacity planning and system evolution.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles
• Deep expertise with AWS services, particularly EKS, VPC, S3, and RDS/Aurora, and Well-Architected framework
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes internals, cluster administration, and multi-environment management
• Strong proficiency writing and maintaining infrastructure as code using Terraform, including module development and state management
• Production experience with CNCF projects such as Helm for package management and Karpenter for node provisioning
• Proven experience developing and managing CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions
• Hands-on experience with observability tooling including Honeycomb, Sentry, and AWS CloudWatch
• Deep expertise implementing zero-downtime deployment strategies with automated rollbacks
• Strong networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, and traffic routing
• Experience managing async job processing systems and message queues at scale
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Go, Bash, or similar)
• Proven track record of capacity planning, performance optimization, and cost management initiatives

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing alerting strategies for production services with on-call runbooks
• Proficiency building dashboards and visualizations for real-time service health
• Background in database monitoring solutions for RDS Postgres
• Experience creating custom metrics and instrumentation for application-specific insights
• Hands-on experience with application profiling to identify performance bottlenecks
• Experience with Cloudflare WAF including origin shielding and firewall rule management
• Familiarity with Okta IdP integration and Single Sign-On (SSO) implementations
• Experience designing and implementing RBAC systems across AWS and Kubernetes

Benefits

• Incredible teammates: Work alongside some of the nicest and smartest people you’ll ever meet.
• Ownership mindset: We’re all owners here, literally. Employees receive equity in Scribe, sharing in the company’s long-term success.
• Comprehensive coverage: We offer health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
• Time to recharge: Flexible paid time off, plus company holidays to rest and reset.
• Retirement planning: Employees can contribute to a 401(k) plan to help plan for their future.
• Support for growing families. Paid parental leave to help you care for and bond with your growing family.
• Lunch, on us: SF-based employees receive daily catered lunches at our office.
• Easy commutes: Commuter benefits for our office-based team, make getting to and from HQ simpler.
• Level up your home office: Remote? Hybrid? Wherever you work, we’ll support your setup with a home office stipend.

What This Job Offers

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