Senior / Lead DevOps Engineer

Compensation: $90k – $100k • No equity

About Hostfully

Hostfully helps vacation rental and short-term rental companies run their businesses more efficiently and deliver memorable guest experiences. Our award-winning short term rental property management software is trusted by thousands of property managers around the world to grow their businesses.

We’re a growing, fully remote team that values collaboration, transparency, and work-life balance. We move fast, solve meaningful problems, and support each other along the way. We’re looking for a Senior / Lead DevOps Engineer to help shape and elevate our infrastructure and DevOps practices. You’ll work alongside our existing team to enhance the reliability, scalability, and security of Hostfully’s SaaS platform, while driving automation, improving observability, and championing operational excellence. This is a hands-on role with plenty of room to innovate and make a tangible impact on how we build, deploy, and maintain our systems.

What You’ll Do Own and evolve Hostfully’s AWS infrastructure (EKS, RDS, Elasticache, SQS).

Provision Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and support developers in self-provisioning it.

Enhance our CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth, automated deployments.

Enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to further improve observability

Collaborate closely with development teams to support product development

Manage infrastructure costs and help make smart scaling decisions.

Support production operations, including on-call coverage and incident response.

Lead efforts to continue improving infrastructure security.

Stay current on AWS and DevOps best practices, and proactively propose improvements.

Mentor developers and junior engineers on DevOps best practices.

You’ll Thrive in This Role If You Have Strong experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferred).

Proven track record managing AWS environments with multiple services and accounts.

Expert-level understanding of Terraform IaC tools.

Holistic understanding of security practices for web applications

Expertise in optimizing web applications’ costs and performance

Deep familiarity with CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, GitLab CI).

Working knowledge of observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana).

Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, NAT, VPC, VPN, Firewalls, TLS).

Strong background with Unix/Linux systems and virtualization concepts.

Experience supporting high-SLA production systems in a SaaS environment.

Comfort working in Agile/SCRUM teams within a fast paced culture.

Bonus Points For Familiarity with Splunk, MySQL (InnoDB), Tomcat, or JVM-based applications.

Experience supporting breakdown of monolithic applications.

Prior experience leading IaC migrations projects.

Soft Skills We Value Excellent communication and collaboration across teams.

Independent thinker with a “get it done” mindset and attention to detail.

Calm and focused under pressure — especially during production incidents.

Passion for reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement.

Comfortable balancing long-term infrastructure goals with day-to-day priorities.

Willingness to be on-call for critical production issues when needed.

Examples of Projects You Might Work On Segmenting our existing AWS services into desired shape

Improving our observability stack and alerting framework.

Supporting services extraction in blue-green manner on a living organism.

Optimizing AWS resource usage to improve performance and control costs.

Providing tools necessary for developers to be capable to self-provide necessary infrastructure.

Why Join Hostfully? Join a growing SaaS company making a real impact in the vacation rental tech space.

Work remotely with a team that values trust, flexibility, and autonomy.

Collaborate with experienced engineers who care deeply about quality and reliability.

Own your work and see your contributions make a measurable difference in uptime, performance, and customer satisfaction.