12 days ago
USA (city not specified)Staff+
Base Salary
$227k - $272k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve Babylist’s AWS infrastructure, including EKS clusters, databases, and core services, using Terraform.
- Ship tested tools, services, runbooks, and self-service workflows for engineering teams.
- Build secure Terraform modules and infrastructure defaults for least-privilege access, secrets, workload isolation, and configuration-drift detection.
- Maintain reliable CI/CD delivery with dependency scanning, 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 with engineering teams.
- Validate backups, restore procedures, and failover paths through regular recovery tests.
- Lead or support incident response, post-incident reviews, and resulting reliability improvements.
- Shape the infrastructure roadmap, lead cross-team platform initiatives, 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.
- Production Kubernetes operations experience, including debugging complex issues.
- Experience designing and improving CI/CD systems using CircleCI, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
- Experience with observability and alerting tools such as Datadog, Sentry, PagerDuty, and Cronitor.
- Experience with on-call operations, incident management, and post-mortems.
- Ability to support developers across local, staging, and production environments.
- Interest in and regular use of AI tools to improve engineering productivity.
- Ability to lead cross-team initiatives, shape platform strategy, and mentor engineers.
Benefits
- Starting salary of $226,673 to $271,991, plus a target 20% annual bonus and competitive equity.
- Remote-first work arrangement across the United States and Canada, with company gatherings twice a year.
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Retirement savings plan with company matching and flexible spending accounts.
- Generous paid parental leave and paid time off.
- Company-wide paid Winter Wonder Week at the end of the year.
- Remote work stipend for home-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.