Staff Engineer, DevOps
About The Position
FloQast is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to drive the technical direction, architecture, and reliability of its secure, scalable, high-performance SaaS platform. The role provides technical leadership on complex engineering challenges, mentors engineers, and influences company technical strategy. The position is hybrid, with three days a week at the San Jose office. The engineer will lead architecture and integration work across the platform, build reliable systems, improve operational visibility and service levels, and evolve CI/CD workflows in partnership with the developer experience team. The role also promotes engineering best practices and collaborates across teams to solve complex, company-wide technical challenges.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering role.
- Track record of driving large-scale, high-impact projects.
- Deep expertise in cloud-native technologies, particularly Kubernetes or ECS and Terraform.
- Expertise implementing monitoring and observability solutions, including Grafana, Coralogix, AWS CloudWatch, or OpenTelemetry (OTEL).
- Proven experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitHub and building and managing advanced automation pipelines.
- Solid understanding of advanced AWS networking, security, and infrastructure concepts.
- Expertise in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or Go.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to work autonomously and take initiative to identify and solve ambiguous, high-level problems.
- Analytical thinking, attention to detail, and demonstrated ability to lead root-cause analysis and problem-solving efforts.
- Leadership skills and interest in guiding and upskilling other engineers.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive architectural enhancements, design, and integration solutions across the platform using serverless and containerization technologies.
- Design and build reliable systems that meet high standards for durability, availability, disaster recovery, and performance.
- Define, monitor, and enforce SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs; establish proactive alerting and real-time dashboards for system health.
- Work with the developer experience team to evolve CI/CD workflows and automate tasks across the software development lifecycle.
- Mentor senior and junior engineers and promote methodologies and best practices, including test-driven development and automated testing.
- Partner with engineering, product, customer success, and other teams to identify and address complex technical challenges with company-wide impact.
- Lead root-cause analysis and problem-solving efforts.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
