Principal DevOps Engineer (Poland Remote)
Turnitin, LLC2 months ago
Remote, Poland +2 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Partner with architects to implement platform strategy and lead technical design and delivery across AWS serverless and Kubernetes/EKS environments.
- Break architectural initiatives into milestones, establish reusable implementation patterns, and guide platform modernization.
- Improve reliability, reduce incident frequency and severity, and strengthen logging, metrics, tracing, incident response, and deployment safety.
- Advance CI/CD automation, Kubernetes cluster design and networking, logging pipelines, cost visibility, tagging standards, and platform guardrails.
- Improve developer experience by establishing deployment and monitoring golden paths and increasing DORA metric visibility.
- Mentor senior engineers, lead technical discussions and design reviews, communicate technical risks, and influence engineering standards across teams.
- Support responsible AI tooling adoption and disciplined prioritization of platform work.
Requirements
- 8–12+ years of experience in infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering.
- Experience operating serverless and Kubernetes environments at scale.
- Proven record of improving reliability and reducing operational toil while collaborating with multiple engineering teams.
- Strong AWS expertise, including Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, and VPC.
- Strong Kubernetes and EKS experience, including networking and observability.
- Advanced infrastructure-as-code experience, with Terraform preferred.
- Strong CI/CD pipeline design experience and understanding of distributed systems and reliability engineering.
- Experience with observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, OpenSearch, Prometheus/Grafana, and CloudWatch.
- Experience with DORA metrics, SRE models, incident-reduction initiatives, developer onboarding, platform UX, and AI-assisted development tooling is desirable.
- Experience writing tools in Python, Node.js, or similar scripting languages is desirable.
Benefits
- Remote-first culture and Poland-remote work arrangement.
- Health care coverage, competitive paid time off, self-care days, national holidays, two Founder Days, and Juneteenth observed.
- Paid volunteer time off, charitable contribution matching, and monthly wellness or home-office reimbursement.
- Employee Assistance Program with a mental health platform.
- Parental leave and a retirement plan with match or contribution.
- Annual base salary of PLN 308,025 to PLN 513,375 plus bonus eligibility.
- Education reimbursement and an inclusive, collaborative culture.
About Turnitin, LLC
Turnitin builds academic integrity and assessment software used by universities, publishers, and certification programs to check originality, grade, and evaluate learning. Its portfolio includes Turnitin Similarity and Feedback Studio, iThenticate, Gradescope, ExamSoft, ProctorExam, and Ouriginal, sold primarily via institutional subscriptions. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Oakland, California, Turnitin is privately held and part of Advance (Advance Publications).