Lead Software Engineer, DevOps

Position Overview

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As a Lead Software Engineer, you will play a key role in building our Developer Experience team and owning critical infrastructure and services that support engineering across the organization. You'll define best practices, shape internal guidelines, and lead efforts to improve developer workflows, tooling, and system reliability. This role involves mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and delivering high-impact projects that power our core systems and services—ultimately enabling faster, safer, and more scalable product development.

About the Team

Our team has a wealth of diverse life and career experiences that allow us to think outside of the box and ahead of the curve. You will get the opportunity to drive the future through new products that delight, while working with a mix of product, design, application engineers, data engineers, and AI experts to devise, nurture, and implement cutting-edge solutions to continuously evolving engineering obstacles.

About You

Driven. Bold. Thoughtful. Although proud of how far you’ve come in honing your craft, you look forward to growing in your technical and functional leadership abilities. Even more excited to share your skills and experiences, you thrive in collaborative environments in which continuously evolving and increasing client demands serve as the catalyst for bold results. Feeding off of a highly competent engineering and product development culture, you yearn to contribute to the foundational growth of a company with unlimited growth and market capture potential. #LI-HR1

What To Expect In This Position

• Design, implement, automate, maintain, and scale production environments, infrastructure, and shared services that power critical engineering systems
• Build and own internal platforms, tools, and services that elevate the developer experience across the organization
• Help shape engineering best practices, coding standards, and guidelines
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, design, data, and AI, to deliver scalable solutions
• Drive improvements in CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, observability, and deployment workflows
• Leverage your extensive knowledge of security and compliance best practices to ensure that our systems and data are secure.
• Continually monitor and ensure the health and uptime of our production environment and its dependencies.
• Mentor and support engineers through code reviews, design sessions, and knowledge sharing
• Research and integrate emerging technologies, including AI/LLM tools, into developer workflows
• Participate in shaping the technical roadmap and strategic decisions for developer platforms
• Help foster a culture of engineering excellence, inclusivity, and continuous improvement

What Sets You Apart

• 5+ years of professional experience in the software development industry
• Solid backend engineering experience, including designing APIs, implementing asynchronous services, and managing distributed systems
• Proficiency with AWS services and cloud infrastructure, with a working understanding of VPCs, IAM, EC2, ECS, and S3
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices and pipeline tools like GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or Jenkins, with an eye toward automation and developer efficiency
• Comfortable working with Linux-based systems, containerization tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code platforms such as Terraform or Ansible
• Hands-on scripting knowledge in Python, Bash, or JavaScript to streamline internal tools and workflows
• Exposure to monitoring and observability stacks such as Signoz, Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, or New Relic
• Understanding of relational and non-relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or Redshift
• Experience collaborating across technical and non-technical teams, contributing to architecture decisions, and aligning engineering with strategic goals
• Basic familiarity with security best practices, networking concepts, and cloud