Senior DevOps Engineer

The role

You will architect, maintain, and scale critical AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure. You will also manage CI/CD pipelines, observability, and networking to ensure system reliability and performance.

What you will do

• Architect and scale AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure
• Build and maintain Terraform modules
• Drive capacity planning and cost management across production systems
• Build observability into services with Honeycomb, Sentry, and CloudWatch
• Manage CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions
• Own networking, traffic routing, and security configuration

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles
• Deep expertise with AWS services, particularly EKS, VPC, S3, and RDS/Aurora, and Well-Architected framework
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes internals, cluster administration, and multi-environment management
• Strong proficiency writing and maintaining infrastructure as code using Terraform, including module development and state management
• Production experience with CNCF projects such as Helm for package management and Karpenter for node provisioning
• Proven experience developing and managing CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions
• Hands-on experience with observability tooling including Honeycomb, Sentry, and AWS CloudWatch
• Deep expertise implementing zero-downtime deployment strategies with automated rollbacks
• Strong networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, and traffic routing
• Experience managing async job processing systems and message queues at scale
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Go, Bash, or similar)
• Proven track record of capacity planning, performance optimization, and cost management initiatives

Nice to have

• Experience designing alerting strategies for production services with on-call runbooks
• Proficiency building dashboards and visualizations for real-time service health
• Background in database monitoring solutions for RDS Postgres
• Experience creating custom metrics and instrumentation for application-specific insights
• Hands-on experience with application profiling to identify performance bottlenecks
• Experience with Cloudflare WAF including origin shielding and firewall rule management
• Familiarity with Okta IdP integration and Single Sign-On (SSO) implementations
• Experience designing and implementing RBAC systems across AWS and Kubernetes

Benefits

• Healthcare Coverage – Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including two $0/month medical plan options for employees
• Equity – Ownership in what we're building
• 401(k) – through Vestwell
• Flex Benefit – $500/year for home office equipment, productivity tools, learning & development or fitness/wellness
• Commuter Benefits – $100/month for SF based employees
• PTO – Flexible paid time off and company holidays
• Parental Leave – Paid leave to support growing families
• Wellness & Family Support – Free Talkspace membership, One Medical access (location-dependent), and Kindbody discounts for family planning

About the company

Scribe is a Specialized Intelligence platform that automatically captures how work happens and turns it into a living asset for people and AI agents. Based in San Francisco, it is a LinkedIn Top Startup valued at over $1B.