Senior DevOps Engineer

The role

You will build and operate core infrastructure to ensure the platform is performant, reliable, observable, and scalable. You will work on CI/CD, cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS, automation, and observability.

What you will do

• Own and continuously improve deployment pipelines
• Partner with developers to review infrastructure changes and streamline release processes
• Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS
• Manage Kubernetes clusters, networking, and storage at petabyte scale using infrastructure-as-code
• Build, guide, and review automation and internal tooling to drive developer productivity
• Profile and optimise services handling large-scale data pipelines
• Perform capacity planning for storage and compute-intensive workloads
• Define and own SLIs/SLOs/SLAs for critical services
• Build alerting, runbooks, and incident response processes
• Instrument services with distributed tracing, logging, and metrics

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE experience in a production environment
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation at scale
• Proven experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi) and configuration management
• Strong fundamentals in designing, building, and maintaining resilient distributed and/or high performance systems
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerised workloads in cloud environments (GCP and/or AWS)
• Solid understanding of networking, operating systems, and database technologies
• Experience with observability fundamentals metrics, logs, traces, and alerting

Nice to have

• Experience with Python
• Experience with TypeScript and React
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with GCP
• Experience with PyTorch, CUDA, or Ray

Benefits

• Competitive salary, commission, and meaningful equity
• Clear, accelerated growth opportunities
• Strong in-person culture: 4 days/week
• Daily team lunches & dinners
• Annual learning & development budget
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• US employees: 18 paid vacation days plus US public holidays
• UK employees: 25 paid vacation days plus UK public holidays
• Frequent travel opportunities across the U.S., London, and Europe
• Bi-annual company offsites & monthly socials

About the company

Encord is the data layer for Physical AI and enterprise, serving as core infrastructure for 300+ of the world's leading AI teams. The team includes founders, scientists, quants, researchers, and former Olympians.