Senior DevOps Engineer at Down – Where Honesty Meets Chemistry
About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help us scale and optimize the infrastructure powering our social apps. You’ll own the reliability, performance, and security of our backend systems, while collaborating closely with engineering and product teams to ship impactful features quickly and safely. Our backend is built primarily on AWS, and you’ll play a key role in keeping it fast, cost-efficient, and reliable.
What You’ll Do
- Build & maintain infrastructure: Design, deploy, and optimize backend services and cloud architectures (primarily on AWS).
- Solve complex problems: Identify technical challenges and deliver elegant, scalable solutions.
- Enable velocity: Automate CI/CD pipelines, testing, and support workflows to speed up development and reduce errors.
- Optimize performance: Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve system reliability and efficiency at scale.
- Secure systems: Implement and enforce best practices for cloud and application security.
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with engineers, product managers, and support teams to deliver a smooth end-to-end user experience.
- Improve processes: Continuously refine development, release, and monitoring practices.
What We’re Looking For
- 4+ years of experience designing and running scalable, highly available systems in production.