Staff DevOps Engineer, Delivery Loop
You'll operate as a technical leader owning the end to end deployment strategy and shaping the systems that enable engineering velocity at scale. This is a high impact role focused on reducing cycle time, increasing reliability and enabling world-class developer experience across the organization. You'll set technical direction across teams, guide architecture decisions, and act as a force multiplier through mentorship, design reviews, and cross-team collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the end-to-end deployment strategy, from CI pipelines to production rollout
- Own and evolve the GitOps-based deployment platform (e.g., ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts), ensuring scalability, reliability, and ease of use
- Design and implement safe, progressive delivery mechanisms (canary, blue/green, feature flags, automated rollback)
- Set technical direction across teams, guiding architecture decisions that improve developer velocity and system reliability
- Establish and evangelize best practices for CI/CD, release engineering, and environment management across the organization
- Identify and eliminate bottlenecks to drive step-function improvements in developer productivity and cycle time
- Build and evolve internal tooling to improve testing and deployment workflows
- Ensure high reliability and operational excellence through strong observability, monitoring, and incident-driven improvements
- Mentor engineers and act as a force multiplier, influencing teams through technical leadership, design reviews, and cross-team collaboration
Requirements
- BS / BA degree or equivalent experience
- 7+ years in Devops, Site Reliability or Infrastructure Engineering roles
- Business-level fluency to read, write and speak in English
- Deep expertise in modern deployment systems, including Kubernetes, GitOps workflows, and tools like ArgoCD and Argo Rollouts
- Successfully designed and scaled CI/CD systems for large engineering organizations
- Comfortable owning ambiguous, cross-cutting problems and turning them into clear technical strategies
- Strong track record of improving developer velocity, reliability, and system scalability
- Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS), containerization (Docker), and distributed systems
- Experience implementing progressive delivery techniques (canary, blue/green, feature flags)
- Skilled in infrastructure as code (e.g., Pulumi, Terraform) and system automation
- Ability to balance short-term execution with long-term architectural vision
- Ability to influence engineering teams through technical leadership, not just direct ownership
- Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Benefits
- Equity (RSUs)
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for full-time employees and their dependents, with most premiums covered
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and 6+ weeks of additional paid leave for birthing parents
- Inclusive care for family planning, menopause, and midlife transitions
- Flexible vacation
- Paid holidays
- Sabbatical program
- Access to mental health resources, therapy and coaching
- 401(k) with 100% employer match (up to $6,000/year) in the U.S.
- Support for retirement savings globally
- Monthly stipends for work and wellness expenses
- Annual WIN bonus program
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