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Staff Infrastructure & Devops Engineer

Quince· Platform Engineering
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Palo Alto, CA$230k - $275kfull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior-level infrastructure and DevOps engineer responsible for defining the long-term cloud platform strategy, architecture, and standards across AWS, platform tooling, reliability, security, and cross-team collaboration at Quince.

Responsibilities

  • Technical Vision & Strategy: Define and execute the long-term infrastructure architecture roadmap, aligning technical investments with business growth goals.
  • Architectural Leadership: Architect resilient, multi-region, and cost-optimized AWS cloud solutions supporting high-traffic, low-latency applications.
  • Platform & Developer Tooling: Build enterprise-grade developer platforms and automated self-service tooling to accelerate engineering velocity across the organization.
  • Reliability & Disaster Recovery: Establish organizational standards for system availability, disaster recovery, failover strategies, and incident management.
  • Observability & Security Standards: Define end-to-end security compliance, zero-trust network topology, and company-wide observability frameworks.
  • Mentorship & Technical Excellence: Coach, mentor, and elevate the technical capabilities of engineers across teams while championing engineering best practices.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering leadership, product managers, and security teams to resolve complex systemic bottlenecks.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in Infrastructure, DevOps, Platform, or SRE roles with a track record of architectural leadership.
  • Deep expertise in AWS architecture, multi-account structures, network topology, cost governance, and cloud security best practices.
  • Mastery of Kubernetes at scale, service meshes, and enterprise IaC management using Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.
  • Expertise in designing sophisticated GitOps-driven deployment workflows using tools like ArgoCD, Flux, or GitHub Actions.
  • Strong background with relational/NoSQL databases (MySQL, DynamoDB) and distributed caching systems (Redis, DAX) under high load.
  • Proficiency in scripting and software development using languages such as Python, Go, or Bash.
  • Ability to balance immediate operational needs with long-term architectural scalable solutions.
  • Proven track record of influencing architectural decisions and driving cross-team technical alignment without formal management authority.

Skills

Required:AWS architectureKubernetesIaC (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation)GitOpsData infrastructureScripting/Programming
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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