Staff Devops Engineer at Way2B1 in San Francisco, California, United States
- Company: Way2B1
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Posted: Sep 18, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Experience: 8+ years
Overview
This is a hands-on Staff DevOps Engineer role responsible for designing, operating, and evolving a highly available, multi-tenant platform on AWS. You will work closely with software engineering to deploy, operate, and scale production systems while driving improvements in reliability, automation, a…
Job description
- This is a hands-on Staff DevOps Engineer role responsible for designing, operating, and evolving a highly available, multi-tenant platform on AWS. You will work closely with software engineering to deploy, operate, and scale production systems while driving improvements in reliability, automation, and performance.
- This role requires strong ownership of infrastructure and production systems. You will also provide technical leadership and mentorship to other DevOps engineers.
- You will also help introduce and operationalize AI/LLM capabilities within the platform.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable, highly available infrastructure in AWS
- Own and evolve infrastructure as code (Terraform) across all environments
- Operate and optimize Aurora PostgreSQL (replication, failover, performance tuning)
- Operate ECS (Fargate), ECR, and containerized services
- Operate Kafka-based event streaming systems
- Manage Auto Scaling Groups and EC2-based workloads
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Buildkite)
- Build automation to eliminate manual operational work
- Manage and secure secrets and access (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, IAM)
- Partner with engineering teams to improve system reliability and performance
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to DevOps engineers
- Drive cost optimization across AWS infrastructure
- Operate systems behind Cloudflare (WAF, CDN, traffic management)
- Own production incident response end-to-end (triage, mitigation, coordination)
- Lead high-severity outage response under pressure
- Drive root cause analysis (RCA) and enforce follow-ups
- Continuously improve system resilience and recovery mechanisms
- Design and operate end-to-end observability (metrics, logs, tracing)
- Build high-signal monitoring, alerting, and dashboards
- Define and enforce SLIs/SLOs and alerting standards
- Reduce alert fatigue and improve signal-to-noise ratio
Requirements
- Deep experience operating production systems on AWS (ECS/Fargate, EC2, networking, IAM)
- Expert-level Terraform experience managing infrastructure at scale
- Strong experience with containerized applications and distributed systems (e.g., Kafka)
- Experience operating multi-tenant, highly available systems
- Proven ownership of production on-call and resolving critical incidents
- Strong systems fundamentals (Linux, networking, debugging)
- Strong scripting ability (Bash, Python or equivalent)
- Experience designing and operating CI/CD systems
- Strong understanding of security best practices (IAM, secrets management)
- Experience operating multi-region or globally distributed systems
- Experience working with Cloudflare at scale
- Experience optimizing high-throughput or event-driven systems
Skills
Required
- AWS (ECS/Fargate, EC2, networking, IAM)
- Terraform
- Containerized applications
- Distributed systems (e.g., Kafka)
- Linux
- Networking
- Debugging
- Bash
- Python
- CI/CD systems
Preferred
- Cloudflare at scale
- High-throughput or event-driven systems