Senior DevOps Engineer
$180k - $230k • New York • FullTime
Posted 2mo ago
Job Location
New York
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
Machine Learning Engineer
About the job
Encord is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join their platform engineering team in New York. This role involves embedding within teams responsible for Encord's core infrastructure, focusing on performance, reliability, observability, and scalability. The engineer will champion a culture of automation and resilience, driving improvements through individual contributions and cross-team collaboration. The position offers a chance to work on cutting-edge AI infrastructure and contribute to a high-growth startup with a clear mission.
Responsibilities
- Own and improve deployment pipelines, streamlining release processes and promoting DevOps best practices.
- Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS, managing Kubernetes, networking, and storage using infrastructure-as-code.
- Drive developer productivity by building and reviewing automation and internal tooling.
- Profile and optimize services for large-scale data pipelines, performing capacity planning for storage and compute.
- Define and own SLIs/SLOs/SLAs for critical services, building alerting, runbooks, and incident response processes.
- Instrument services for observability using distributed tracing, logging, and metrics, and define best practices.
Requirements
- 4+ years of hands-on DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE experience in a production environment.
- Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation at scale.
- Proven experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi) and configuration management.
- Strong fundamentals in designing, building, and maintaining resilient distributed and/or high-performance systems.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads in cloud environments (GCP and/or AWS).
- Solid understanding of networking, operating systems, and database technologies.
- Experience with observability fundamentals: metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, commission, and meaningful equity
- Clear, accelerated growth opportunities
- 4 days/week in-office work arrangement
- Flexible PTO
- Annual learning & development budget
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- Frequent travel opportunities
- Bi-annual company offsites, twice-weekly team lunches, and monthly socials