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David Careers

Lead DevEx Engineer

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kaavSan Mateo (CA)
Computer Systems Engineers/ArchitectsComputer Systems Design Services

SENIORITY

Manager

SALARY

$200,000 - $260,000 per year

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About the role

Title: Lead DevEx Engineer
Location: Hybrid, Bay Area (San Mateo, 3x/week)
Salary: $200K-$260K + equity
Benefits include: health benefits, 401K, commuter benefits, annual international retreats8am-5pm work hours; weekly Monday morning All Hands at 8amReports to: VP of Engineering Series A startup, has PMF; scaling within 1 quarter
About the Role: We're seeking a Lead DevEx Engineer with deep SRE / DevOps expertise to build, maintain, and optimize our engineering infrastructure. You'll build and maintain internal platforms and toolchains, ensuring reliability, security, and performance across both single-tenant and multi-tenant architectures.
Key Responsibilities: Architect, automate and maintain cloud infrastructure: Lead design and implementation of scalable, secure systems using convergence frameworks like Terraform, CDK, etc. Manage multi-tenant and single-tenant environments: Optimize production operations for complex product configurations. Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines: Ensure fast, reliable build and release processes, including canary capabilities. Incident management and observability: Drive response strategies for critical incidents, implement robust monitoring. Champion system resilience and performance: Advocate best practices for fault tolerance, security, and operational excellence.
Qualifications Required:
  • 5+ years devex/devops or site reliability engineer experience
  • Bachelor's degree or higher
  • Strong ownership mindset
  • Experience with AWS, CI/CD, scripting (any language) and automation (bonus for Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry and DataDog)
  • Experience leading & mentoring more junior engineers
Benefits:
  • Competitive base salary + equity
  • Medical, dental, vision, life insurance 401K and commuter benefits
  • Annual international retreats
  • Flexible, outcome-based culture
  • Ground-floor growth opportunity
  • Work with education thought leaders
  • Customer-centric, innovative environment

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