Senior DevOps Engineer

The role

You will own the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of production systems. You will build secure cloud infrastructure, automation, and deployment pipelines for worldwide real-time services.

What you will do

• Own platform design, cloud services uptime, and on-call practices for worldwide real-time services
• Build and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment systems
• Implement observability, alerting, and incident response/postmortems
• Drive capacity planning, disaster recovery, and cost/performance optimization
• Collaborate cross-functionally to support live drone data streaming and customer workflows

Required qualifications

• Degree in CS or related field
• 5+ years operating production systems and building infrastructure
• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Comfortable writing production-quality code (Python/Node/Javascript, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and modern cloud patterns
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and safe release processes
• Excellent attention to detail around security, scalability, and performance
• AWS infrastructure familiarity (networking, IAM, core services, and production operations)

Nice to have

• Experience building and supporting services that interacts with critical real-time edge devices (drones, robotics, autonomous vehicles)
• Familiarity with containers and service orchestration
• Experience with real-time/streaming systems or low-latency distributed services
• Familiarity with security best practices (secrets management, encryption, least privilege)
• Ability to work independently in a dynamic environment, take initiative, and communicate effectively

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for employees and families
• 401K plan
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Flexible Time Off (Exempt) / Paid time off (Non-Exempt)
• Flexible work environment
• Orca pass (for those in Puget Sound)
• Free snacks, drinks and espresso (Seattle office)

About the company

BRINC is a vertically integrated U.S. drone technology company that designs and manufactures unmanned aircraft systems, autonomous drone stations, command-and-control software, and advanced autonomy for public safety.