Staff DevOps Engineer
About The Position
WitnessAI is hiring a Staff DevOps Engineer for a high-impact individual-contributor role at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, developer experience, AI-augmented tooling, and platform security. The engineer will own the architecture and operations of a large-scale, multi-tenant SaaS platform across AWS and GCP, partner directly with product engineering teams on service design, and independently take ambiguous problems through to production solutions. The position is based in Mountain View, California, with a hybrid schedule requiring two days per week in the office. The salary range is $210,000–$257,000; the exact salary depends on the selected candidate’s location, qualifications, experience, and relevant skills.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE in cloud-native SaaS environments.
- Expertise in AWS, including EKS, RDS/Aurora, IAM, VPC, and cost management, and solid GCP experience.
- Production-scale Terraform experience, including modules, state, drift detection, and multi-account patterns.
- Advanced Kubernetes skills, including RBAC, network policy, GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux), operators, and resource management.
- Strong Go and/or Python skills, with the ability to build and ship production-grade internal tooling.
- Hands-on experience building tools with AI/LLM APIs integrated into engineering workflows.
- Production SQL proficiency and experience operating NoSQL platforms.
- Demonstrated experience designing and operating large-scale, multi-cluster observability solutions.
- DevSecOps experience covering vulnerability management, supply-chain security, and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001.
- Ability to scope ambiguous problems, drive solutions, and deliver independently.
Nice To Haves
- Background in a regulated industry, such as SaaS-based fintech, healthtech, or AI infrastructure.
- GPU infrastructure or AI model-serving experience, such as vLLM or SageMaker.
- Open-source development projects used by others.
Responsibilities
- Design and operate more than 50 EKS/GKE clusters, multi-tenant compute, autoscaling, and cluster lifecycle management across AWS and GCP.
- Own Terraform infrastructure as code for multi-account, multi-region environments spanning more than 200 repositories and services.
- Architect and operate end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Harness, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD, including supply-chain security, SBOMs, and progressive delivery.
- Build and operate large-scale observability stacks for metrics, logs, and distributed traces, using OpenTelemetry across clusters.
- Embed DevSecOps controls, including secret management, image signing with Cosign/Chainguard, OPA/Kyverno policy as code, and compliance automation.
- Create AI/LLM-powered internal tools for platform operations, incident triage, drift detection, and CI/CD automation.
- Operate SQL and NoSQL platforms at scale, including disaster recovery and schema lifecycle management.
- Partner with development teams from architecture review through production launch, and produce ADRs, runbooks, and engineering standards.
Benefits
- Hybrid work environment
- Competitive salary and equity
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan
- Opportunities for professional development and growth
- Generous vacation policy
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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