Staff DevOps Engineer, Developer Experience (DevEx)
Demandbase · Remote · US - Remote ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Staff level role
- Fully remote
- AWS and GCP
- Kubernetes at scale
- DevEx focus
As a Staff DevOps Engineer on the Developer Experience team, you will set the technical direction for the tools and workflows used by all engineering teams. You will define multi-quarter platform strategies for build, test, deploy, and operate stages across AWS and GCP environments.
You will act as a force multiplier by abstracting infrastructure complexity and driving self-service platform adoption. The role requires embedding reliability, security, and observability into daily workflows while guiding the organization in adopting AI-assisted engineering tools safely.
What you'll do
- Set and drive the technical roadmap for the Internal Developer Platform
- Author and review RFCs and design docs for org-wide adoption
- Serve as escalation point for high-severity production incidents
- Mentor senior engineers to raise the technical bar for platform engineering
- Own the architecture of CI/CD orchestration using GitLab CI/CD
- Manage multi-cluster Kubernetes platforms including upgrades and networking
- Define and evolve org-wide SLIs, SLOs, and incident response practices
- Drive Infrastructure-as-Code strategy using Terraform and Crossplane
What you'll need
- 10+ years of engineering experience with hands-on software development
- 7+ years building and operating cloud infrastructure at scale
- Track record of technical leadership across multiple teams
- Deep experience with multi-account, multi-cluster Kubernetes (EKS/GKE)
- Strong proficiency with Terraform, Crossplane, and GitOps practices
- Experience designing CI/CD systems with strong security guardrails
- Hands-on experience with Istio service mesh in multi-cluster environments
- Experience building observability platforms with a cost-aware lens
Nice to have
- Knowledge of container and supply-chain security practices
- Experience with cloud cost governance and FinOps practices
- Fluency with AI-assisted development tooling like Cursor or Claude Code
- Experience leading blameless postmortems and incident response
- Support for data pipeline platforms such as Airflow or EMR
Stack
- AWS
- GCP
- Terraform
- Crossplane
- Kubernetes
- EKS
- GKE
- Istio
- GitLab CI/CD
- Backstage
- Prometheus
- Datadog
- Go
- Python
- Java
How you'll work
- Fully remote position
- Global opportunities available