Staff Engineer - DevOps
Hard Rock Digital, LLC2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the technical vision, architecture, roadmap, catalog strategy, plugin architecture, and platform APIs for the Backstage-based internal developer platform.
- Define company-wide golden paths, self-service workflows, and paved-road patterns for infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD, environments, and observability.
- Make build-versus-buy and platform investment decisions involving Backstage plugins, third-party internal developer platform tooling, and custom development.
- Partner with product engineering, SRE, security, data, and engineering leadership teams to align the platform roadmap and drive organization-wide adoption.
- Define and report platform health and developer experience metrics, including DORA metrics, self-service adoption, lead time to production, and ticket deflection.
- Drive migration of legacy infrastructure and workflows to self-service, Backstage-based patterns.
- Architect multi-account AWS, EKS/Kubernetes platform primitives, and Terraform/Terragrunt module ecosystems for use by other engineers.
- Embed security, compliance, and guardrail-by-design practices into secure, compliant platform capabilities.
- Champion AI-enabled engineering practices, including AI coding assistants, agentic tooling, and AI-assisted platform workflows.
- Mentor senior engineers and influence technical direction across multiple teams and the broader organization.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering, including 3+ years in a senior, staff, or equivalent technical leadership capacity.
- Experience owning the architecture and roadmap of a scaled internal developer platform; Backstage experience is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated success driving organization-wide adoption of self-service workflows and golden paths across multiple engineering teams.
- Expert knowledge of AWS services and cloud-native architectures, including multi-account environments, VPC design, IAM policies, and networking.
- Deep experience with Kubernetes, preferably EKS, Docker, and Helm, including platform abstractions built on container orchestration.
- Advanced Terraform and Terragrunt expertise, including designing reusable module ecosystems consumed by many teams.
- Strong scripting and automation skills with Python, Bash, and TypeScript or Node.js for Backstage plugin development.
- Experience setting organization-wide CI/CD strategy and standards with GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, TeamCity, or comparable tools.
- Strong understanding of observability, developer experience measurement, DORA metrics, lead time, and adoption rates.
- Deep knowledge of networking, security hardening, and compliance in regulated industries, with experience implementing automated platform guardrails.
- Track record of mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical direction across multiple teams or an organization.
- AWS Professional Certification such as Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or SysOps Administrator is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated fluency with AI development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar, plus a perspective on responsibly scaling AI-enabled engineering practices.
- Ability to operate with significant scope and ambiguity, influence without direct authority, and translate platform investment into measurable engineering outcomes.
Benefits
- Competitive pay and benefits.
- Flexible vacation allowance.
- Hybrid or remote working environment.
- Startup culture backed by a secure, global brand.
- Diverse and inclusive equal-opportunity workplace that encourages employees to be authentic and empowered.
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About Hard Rock Digital, LLC
Hard Rock Digital builds and operates the Hard Rock brand’s online sportsbook, real-money casino, and social casino products for U.S. customers, including the Hard Rock Bet app. The company develops an in-house odds and pricing platform and other backend systems that power live wagering. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Hollywood, Florida, it serves regulated U.S. markets and is aligned with Hard Rock International and the Seminole Tribe of Florida.