Lead DevOps Engineer

Join Updater’s Platform Engineering team as a Lead DevOps Engineer to drive deployment velocity, observability, system reliability, and developer experience through building infrastructure and tooling.

Location: Remote, US

Salary: $180,000–$215,000/yr

Responsibilities

• Embody a culture of continuous improvement and shared ownership backed by clear documentation, runbooks, and other shift left contributions
• Build strong, collaborative relationships evidenced by proactive engagement from product teams
• Continually improve system reliability and observability coverage
• Reduce tooling and config complexity so that engineers spend less time fighting tools and more time building features
• Optimize Infrastructure costs without compromising reliability
• Reduce time-to-production for new features and services
• Ensure reliable, repeatable, and better standardized deployments with minimal manual intervention

Requirements

• Excellent cross-functional collaboration abilities—your work spans the entire engineering organization, requiring you to build and utilize relationships and champion DevEx improvements across teams
• Ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences alike, and leverages visuals, data, and concise documentation to build shared understanding
• Deep empathy for DevEx—you genuinely understand engineer pain points, involve users in design decisions, and measure success by how much you improve their daily work
• Positive, team-oriented mindset that treats every day as an opportunity to improve and inspire others through your can-do attitude
• Previous experience on a platform engineering team where you led complex infrastructure or tooling migration efforts and built useful dev-focused tools
• Deep practical experience architecting and implementing solutions in AWS, backed by strong command of cloud design patterns and technologies
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes containerized workloads and orchestration
• Strong command of observability tools like DataDog or Prometheus
• Proficiency in Terraform IaC
• Experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and associated best practices
• Solid experience with Git via Gitlab, Github, or Bitbucket
• Familiarity with GitOps tooling like Spacelift or Flux
• Strong project management skills that balance interrupt-driven and roadmap work
• Eagerness to learn new and evolving technologies in the Platform Engineering ecosystem

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Flexible PTO
• 13 paid company holidays annually
• Updater Stock Options
• 401(k) with employer match
• Wellbeing Subsidy
• One Medical membership
• Virtual on-demand healthcare through Teladoc and Talkspace
• Flexible spending account (FSA)
• Health savings account (HSA)
• Supplemental Short & Long Term Disability Insurance
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Paid Parental Leave