Senior DevOps Engineer

BRINC Drones

$120K — $145K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Degree in Computer Science or related field and 5+ years of experience with production systems
  • Solid software engineering skills with coding proficiency in Python, Node, or Javascript
  • Hands-on expertise in Infrastructure as Code and modern cloud patterns
  • Experience managing CI/CD pipelines and implementing safe release strategies
  • Strong focus on security, scalability, and performance
  • Familiarity with AWS infrastructure and its core services

Responsibilities

  • Own the platform design and uptime of cloud services for global real-time applications
  • Build and manage secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment systems
  • Implement observability practices including metrics, logs, and incident response
  • Drive efforts in capacity planning and disaster recovery strategies
  • Collaborate with teams to enhance support for live data streaming and workflows

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • 401K plan
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Flexible Time Off (Exempt) / Paid time off (Non-Exempt)
  • Flexible work environment
  • Orca pass for Puget Sound residents
  • Free snacks, drinks, and espresso in the Seattle office
Full Job Description
About this Role:

As our DevOps Engineer, you will own the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our production systems. You'll build secure cloud infrastructure, automation, and deployment pipelines that power our worldwide real-time services. You'll partner closely with software, hardware, and autonomy teams to improve system performance, incident response, and developer velocity.

Key Responsibilities:

Own platform design, cloud services uptime, and on-call practices for worldwide real-time services
  • Build and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment systems
  • Implement observability (metrics/logs/tracing), alerting, and incident response/postmortems
  • Drive capacity planning, disaster recovery, and cost/performance optimization
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to support live drone data streaming and customer workflows


Qualifications:
  • Degree in CS or related field, with 5+ years operating production systems and building infrastructure
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals; comfortable writing production-quality code (Python/Node/Javascript, etc.)
  • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and modern cloud patterns
  • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and safe release processes
  • Excellent attention to detail around security, scalability, and performance
  • AWS infrastructure familiarity (networking, IAM, core services, and production operations)


Preferred Skills:
  • Experience building and supporting services that interacts with critical real-time edge devices (drones, robotics, autonomous vehicles)
  • Familiarity with containers and service orchestration
  • Experience with real-time/streaming systems or low-latency distributed services
  • Familiarity with security best practices (secrets management, encryption, least privilege)
  • Ability to work independently in a dynamic environment, take initiative, and communicate effectively


Benefits and perks listed below may vary based on the nature of your employment with BRINC and/or the country within which you work

  • Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for our employees and their families
  • 401K plan
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Flexible Time Off (Exempt) / Paid time off (Non-Exempt)
  • Flexible work environment
  • Orca pass (for those in Puget Sound)
  • Free snacks, drinks and espresso (Seattle office)

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