12 days ago
Canada (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve Babylist’s AWS infrastructure, including EKS clusters, databases, networking, and core services, using Terraform.
- Build and operate tested software tools, automation, runbooks, and self-service workflows for engineering teams.
- Create secure Terraform defaults and controls for least-privilege access, secrets, workload isolation, and configuration-drift detection.
- Maintain dependable CI/CD systems with dependency and container scanning, secret detection, and short-lived deployment credentials.
- Support developers across local, staging, and production environments.
- Define SLOs and actionable monitoring and alerting standards, using incident trends to prioritize reliability improvements.
- Validate backups, restore procedures, and failover paths through regular recovery tests.
- Lead or support incident response, post-incident reviews, and follow-up remediation.
- Shape the long-term platform strategy, lead cross-team initiatives through rollout and adoption, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering experience shipping and operating production-quality tools or services with tests, code review, and maintainable interfaces.
- Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and operating security controls for access, workload identity, secrets, or network isolation.
- Deep hands-on Terraform expertise and ownership of infrastructure as code.
- Proven AWS experience at scale, including EKS, RDS, cloud networking, DNS, CDNs, and load balancers.
- Experience operating Kubernetes in production and debugging complex production issues.
- Experience designing and improving CI/CD systems using CircleCI, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
- Experience with observability and alerting tools including Datadog, Sentry, PagerDuty, or Cronitor.
- Experience with on-call operations, incident management, and post-mortems.
- Ability to support developers across local, staging, and production environments.
- Comfort using AI tools in daily engineering work and interest in improving engineering practices with AI.
- Ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives and mentor engineers.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement for team members across the U.S. and Canada.
- Twice-yearly company gatherings.
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Retirement savings plan with company matching and flexible spending accounts.
- Generous paid parental leave and PTO.
- Paid Winter Wonder Week at the end of the year.
- Remote work stipend for office setup.
- Perks supporting physical, mental, and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning.
- Access to AI tools including Claude and ChatGPT from day one.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About Babylist
Babylist builds a universal baby registry, e-commerce shop, and parenting content platform for expecting and new families. It earns revenue from direct retail sales through the Babylist Shop and referral purchases at third‑party retailers via its registry tools and app. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Emeryville, California, the privately held company serves millions of families and operates its own fulfillment centers and experiential showrooms.