Principal DevOps Engineer

About the role

Hubstaff is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to guide the evolution of its cloud platform. This is a remote position focused on building secure, scalable, and highly automated systems. You will collaborate with leadership and engineering teams to enhance reliability, security, and developer experience across a global SaaS platform.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Design and manage cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP.
• Improve Kubernetes, Linux, and cloud networking environments.
• Standardize infrastructure using Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm, and GitOps.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, CloudWatch, and Better Stack.
• Strengthen security, disaster recovery, and platform resilience.
• Drive platform strategy while actively participating in implementation.
• Boost developer productivity through automation and self-service infrastructure.

Requirements

• Experience building and operating production cloud infrastructure at scale with AWS.
• Expertise in Terraform, Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, Helm, and modern GitOps.
• Track record of building reliable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or similar tools.
• Experience supporting production PostgreSQL, Redis, and distributed systems.
• Implemented monitoring and observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, CloudWatch, or similar platforms.
• Understanding of networking, IAM, encryption, disaster recovery, and cloud security best practices.
• Comfortable supporting applications built with Ruby on Rails, Go, Rust, or Node.js.
• Enjoys solving complex infrastructure problems through automation and ownership.

Nice to have

• Helped scale infrastructure for a high-growth SaaS product.
• Built or evolved a platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps function.
• Led cloud modernization or infrastructure transformation initiatives.
• Worked with GitOps, service mesh technologies, or serverless platforms.
• Built infrastructure for data platforms or ETL workloads.
• Thrived in a fully remote, async-first engineering culture.

Skills & tools

• AWS
• GCP
• Kubernetes (EKS)
• Linux
• Terraform
• Terragrunt
• Helm
• GitOps
• GitHub Actions
• ArgoCD
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Loki
• CloudWatch
• Better Stack
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Docker
• Ruby on Rails
• Go
• Rust
• Node.js

Practical notes

• This is a fully remote role.
• Hubstaff is an equal opportunity employer.