Senior DevOps Engineer

Scanner

$150K — $180K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
  • Expertise in AWS services (IAM, VPC, ECS, Lambda, S3) and infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi, Terraform, or CDK).
  • Experience managing the end-to-end CI/CD lifecycle.
  • Strong focus on security best practices, particularly in enterprise environments.
  • Operational proficiency in observability, incident response, and cost management.
  • Familiarity with TypeScript for Pulumi and the ability to read/debug Rust code.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, low-process culture.

Responsibilities

  • Own and manage Scanner's deployment and operation across various environments.
  • Oversee infrastructure efficiency, observability, and uptime for large-scale data indexing and querying.
  • Implement and manage CI/CD processes for smooth deployments.
  • Build secure systems adhering to the principle of least privilege and SOC 2 Type II compliance.
  • Monitor and respond to incidents, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal cost efficiency.
  • Develop infrastructure using Pulumi for deployment management and cloud resources.
  • Collaborate with a small team to explore innovative solutions and improve product offerings.

Benefits

  • Impactful role with direct user influence.
  • Opportunities to tackle ambitious problems in a high-scale environment.
  • Collaborative and fast-paced culture.
  • Autonomy and support for professional development.
Full Job Description
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The Role

We're looking for a DevOps Engineer to own how Scanner gets deployed, upgraded, and operated everywhere it runs. We currently ship two ways: a managed SaaS where we run every piece of the infrastructure in our own AWS accounts, and a Bring Your Own Cloud deployment where we provision the data plane directly into the customer's AWS account. You'll own that system end to end. The infrastructure you'll run indexes and queries hundreds of terabytes to petabytes of logs per day, across dozens of accounts, so efficiency, observability, and uptime are all paramount. A strong candidate will have:
  • A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
  • Deep AWS fluency (IAM, VPC and networking, ECS, Lambda, S3) and production experience with infrastructure-as-code like Pulumi, Terraform, or CDK across multiple accounts and regions.
  • Experience owning CI/CD end to end.
  • A strong focus on building systems using the principle of least privilege, and focusing on a security posture that enterprises expect: tightly scoped roles, minimal cross-account trust, private networking, compliance evidence for SOC 2 Type II.
  • A strong operations instinct for observability, incident response, and cost efficiency at scale.
  • Comfort writing TypeScript (our Pulumi code) and reading Rust well enough to debug a service you didn't write. You don't need to have shipped Rust before.
  • Comfort working in a fast-paced and low process environment.


Our Tech Stack

Talented engineers can pick up new languages and frameworks quickly. Here's what our tech stack looks like today, but if you come with a better way of doing things we're flexible and committed to building the best tools for our customers no matter what!
  • We use infrastructure-as-code tools like Pulumi to manage our deployments and cloud infrastructure.
  • Our query system leverages highly burstable compute provided by serverless components like Amazon Lambdas.
  • We use S3 to store logs at scale and MySQL to store metadata.
  • Our log ingestion pipeline runs in Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS).
  • We use Rust throughout the backend, giving us extremely fast performance with strong security guarantees.
  • Our frontend is written using Svelte and TypeScript.


Why you'll love working here
  • Impact & ownership: Join a small, high-trust team where your work directly impacts our users.
  • Ambitious product: We solve hard problems with massive scale log search, threat hunting, and observability for cloud-native infrastructure.
  • Fast-paced team & culture: We're lean, collaborative and high-velocity.
  • Growth & autonomy: We trust you to take major ownership, give you the space to grow, and we'll support your professional development.


Compensation & Benefits

Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and comprehensive benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, commuter). Hybrid-friendly with regular in-person collaboration in San Francisco.

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