Staff DevOps Engineer, Developer Experience (DevEx)
Demandbase6 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Set and drive the technical roadmap for the Internal Developer Platform and define organization-wide platform strategy.
- Author and review RFCs and design documents, make architecture decisions, and act as an escalation point for high-severity platform incidents.
- Own and evolve Backstage catalogs, scaffolder templates, CI/CD components, and self-service developer workflows as a platform product.
- Own CI/CD orchestration, build and deployment standardization, GitOps strategy, and local-to-production parity across application and data workloads.
- Design and operate multi-cluster Kubernetes platforms across AWS EKS and Google GKE, including upgrades, node lifecycle, networking, and security posture.
- Set Infrastructure-as-Code, cloud IAM, networking, service mesh, secrets management, observability, and platform security strategies.
- Define organization-wide SLIs, SLOs, alerting, incident response, and blameless postmortem practices.
- Own FinOps for platform infrastructure, including cost visibility, unit economics, and waste reduction.
- Evaluate and roll out AI-assisted and agentic development tooling with appropriate organizational guardrails.
- Mentor senior and staff-level engineers and drive adoption of platform standards across software, data, security, and product engineering teams.
Requirements
- 10+ years of overall engineering experience, including meaningful hands-on software development with Go, Python, or Java.
- 7+ years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure at scale.
- Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams through RFCs, architecture decisions, or platform strategy.
- Deep hands-on experience designing and operating multi-account, multi-cluster Kubernetes platforms in production at meaningful scale, using EKS and/or GKE.
- Strong proficiency with Terraform and Crossplane and organizational-scale GitOps practices using Flux or Argo CD.
- Deep experience designing and owning CI/CD systems supporting high release velocity and security guardrails, preferably with GitLab CI/CD.
- Hands-on experience with Istio service mesh in multi-cluster environments, including security and traffic policy.
- Strong experience building and owning observability platforms with Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana, Loki, Mimir, or Thanos, with cost awareness.
- Working knowledge of container and software supply-chain security, including image scanning, hardened base images, and vulnerability remediation.
- Experience owning or contributing meaningfully to cloud cost governance or FinOps.
- Fluency with AI-assisted or agentic development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex and the ability to guide safe organizational rollout.
- Strong understanding of SLIs, SLOs, alerting strategy, incident response, and leading blameless postmortems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and the ability to influence through documentation and technical reviews.
- Experience supporting data pipeline or batch platforms such as Airflow, EMR, or Dataproc is preferred.
Benefits
- The role offers organization-wide technical influence, mentorship opportunities, and ownership of Demandbase’s developer platform strategy.
- Demandbase emphasizes career growth, investment in people, community, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- The company has offices in San Francisco, New York, Austin, Seattle, India, and the United Kingdom.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowArgo CDAWSDatadogGitLab CI/CDGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaIstioJavaKubernetesPrometheusPythonTerraform
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About Demandbase
Demandbase builds a B2B account-based go-to-market platform that unifies account intelligence, intent data, programmatic advertising, and sales intelligence for marketing and sales teams. Delivered as SaaS, it helps companies identify, target, and engage buying groups and measure pipeline impact across the customer lifecycle. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held and serves enterprises pursuing account-based marketing and revenue operations.