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Staff DevOps Engineer, Developer Experience (DevEx)

Demandbase· Engineering
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RemoteFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Staff DevOps Engineer on the Developer Experience (DevEx) team responsible for setting technical direction, platform strategy, and building self-service, scalable infrastructure and workflows across AWS and GCP to improve reliability, security, cost-awareness, and observability for Demandbase’s engineering org.

Responsibilities

  • Set and drive the technical roadmap for the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) — not just execute against one handed to you.
  • Author and review RFCs/design docs that other teams adopt; act as architecture reviewer for infrastructure-impacting changes org-wide.
  • Serve as the escalation point for the highest-severity production incidents involving platform infrastructure; lead retrospectives and turn findings into structural fixes, not one-off patches.
  • Mentor senior and staff-level engineers across teams, raising the technical bar for platform engineering, reliability, and secure software delivery org-wide.
  • Own and evolve Demandbase's Internal Developer Platform (Backstage service/API/group catalog, goldenpath scaffolder templates, cicd-components) as a product - adoption, time-to-first-deploy, and reduction in platform-support toil.
  • Partner with software, data, security, and product engineering leadership to identify systemic friction across the SDLC and resolve it through automation and platform abstraction.
  • Define what "good" looks like for AI-assisted development workflows across the org - evaluate, pilot, and roll out coding-agent tooling with the right guardrails.
  • Own the architecture of CI/CD orchestration (GitLab CI/CD, shared cicd-components) supporting high release velocity, strong security guardrails, and local-to-production parity across the engineering org.
  • Drive standardization of build, test, and deployment patterns across application and data workloads at scale.
  • Own GitOps-based deployment strategy and evolve it as the org's service count grows.
  • Own the architecture and lifecycle of multi-cluster Kubernetes platforms across environments (EKS, and GKE where applicable) - upgrades, node lifecycle (Karpenter), networking, and security posture at fleet scale.
  • Own multi-account cloud IAM, networking, and security architecture; set the guardrails other teams build against.
  • Drive Infrastructure-as-Code strategy (Terraform, Crossplane) for consistency and security across accounts, not just individual environments.
  • Own service mesh (Istio) architecture across multi-cluster environments, including sidecar injection strategy and traffic policy.
  • Own core platform components - GitOps tooling, secrets management, service mesh - as production systems.
  • Own observability platform strategy (Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana/Loki) - what's collected, indexed, and actionable - balancing signal quality against cost.
  • Own FinOps practice for platform infrastructure - cost visibility, unit economics, and waste reduction - as a standing responsibility.
  • Define and evolve org-wide SLIs/SLOs and incident response practices; lead blameless postmortem culture at the organizational level.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of overall engineering experience, including meaningful hands-on software development (Go, Python, or Java) and 7+ years building and operating cloud infrastructure at scale.
  • Demonstrated track record operating as a technical leader across multiple teams - driving cross-team RFCs, architecture decisions, or platform strategy.
  • Deep, hands-on experience designing and operating multi-account, multi-cluster Kubernetes platforms in production (EKS and/or GKE) at meaningful scale (dozens+ of services/clusters).
  • Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Crossplane) and GitOps practices (Flux or Argo CD) applied at organizational scale.
  • Deep experience designing and owning CI/CD systems supporting high release velocity and strong security guardrails (GitLab CI/CD preferred).
  • Hands-on experience with service mesh (Istio) in multi-cluster environments, including security/traffic policy.
  • Strong experience building and owning observability platforms (Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana, Loki/Mimir/Thanos) with a cost-aware lens.

Skills

Required:Cloud infrastructure leadershipKubernetes (EKS/GKE)CI/CD (GitLab CI/CD)GitOps (Flux or Argo CD)Terraform / CrossplaneIstio service mesh

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Stock options
  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Flexible work options
  • Professional development opportunities
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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