Staff DevOps Engineer

Built Technologies • Nashville, TN

2d • Remote

About The Position

Built's mission is to connect and simplify doing business in real estate by transforming how real estate is financed, developed, and managed through its AI-powered platform. Built started by addressing construction draw management for lenders and has evolved into a comprehensive operating system for the industry, partnering with over 350 lenders, 80,000+ borrowers/owners, and thousands of contractors on projects valued over $300 billion. The company is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to join its Cloud Platform Team. This is the most senior individual contributor role on the platform team, responsible for setting the technical direction for Built’s infrastructure design, operation, and evolution. The role involves architecting critical systems, defining engineering standards, and autonomously driving the platform roadmap to enhance reliability and velocity, thereby directly supporting Built’s mission to disrupt construction finance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure in a production environment.
• Expert-level AWS knowledge — deep fluency with EKS, ECS, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, and cost management tooling.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise — cluster architecture, networking, RBAC, autoscaling, and debugging production workloads at scale.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code proficiency with Terraform — writing extensible, maintainable modules and enforcing IaC standards across the team.
• Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or similar tooling.
• Hands-on observability experience with Datadog, Grafana, or similar platforms — metrics, logs, traces, monitors, SLO tracking, and alerting.
• Familiarity with incident management tooling (Incident.io, PagerDuty, or similar) and a track record of leading postmortems and driving systemic reliability improvements.
• Fluency in at least one scripting or automation language — Python, Go, or Bash.
• Strong communication skills — able to present infrastructure risks and architectural trade-offs to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with other IaC tools (Pulumi, CloudFormation, CDK) is a plus.
• Experience with service catalog and developer experience tooling (OpsLevel, Backstage, or similar).
• Background in fintech, lending, or regulated industries where uptime, auditability, and data security are critical.
• FinOps experience — cloud cost governance, right-sizing, and spend transparency across engineering teams.
• Contribution to open-source infrastructure projects or published engineering RFCs.

Responsibilities

• Architect and own Built’s core cloud infrastructure on AWS — defining the patterns, standards, and systems that all engineering teams build on, from EKS/ECS cluster design to VPC topology to IAM governance.
• Lead platform modernization — driving the migration and simplification of our software delivery lifecycle, rationalizing tooling, and building the infrastructure foundation for Built’s AI-related product initiatives.
• Own SLOs and SLIs for the platform — define them, instrument them in your observability stack, and lead the team in meeting reliability targets consistently across all environments.
• Define DevOps engineering standards across the team — IaC patterns, CI/CD architecture, container orchestration standards, and observability frameworks.
• Drive the platform roadmap in partnership with engineering leadership — balancing foundational investment with immediate delivery needs and communicating trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Lead incident response and postmortems — serve as the technical escalation point for complex infrastructure failures, drive systemic improvements, and reduce incident volume over time.
• Evaluate and adopt new technologies across the platform stack — making sound build-versus-buy decisions with a clear view of long-term trade-offs and ROI.
• Mentor a team of 5 platform engineers through design reviews, pairing, architecture guidance, and knowledge-sharing sessions across the broader engineering organization.
• Partner with Information Security to lead vulnerability assessment and security architecture — ensuring compliance, proactive risk management, and adherence to regulatory requirements.
• Use AI coding assistants (your choice of platform) as a daily productivity multiplier for IaC authoring, pipeline configuration, and automation scripting.
• Apply AI to platform operations: runbook generation, incident summarization, root cause analysis drafts, and postmortem synthesis.
• Drive and contribute to Built’s broader initiative to automate the software delivery lifecycle — identifying where AI can reduce manual toil across build, test, deploy, and observe workflows.
• Evaluate emerging AI infrastructure tooling and bring well-reasoned recommendations to the team.
• Share effective AI use cases and patterns with the broader engineering organization.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits including: uncapped vacation, health, dental & vision insurance
• 401k with match and expedited vesting
• Robust compensation package, including equity in the form of stock options
• Learning Grant program to support ongoing professional development
• Top-notch medical, dental and vision coverage
• Unlimited PTO policy

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees