Production Support Engineering - Cloud DevOps Engineer SMTS

Leadout Capital; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Leadout Capital in San Francisco is seeking a Cloud & DevOps Engineer, Senior Member of Technical Staff (SMTS), to design, build, automate, and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and production platforms. You will work with software engineers, infrastructure teams, security partners, and product teams.

The ideal candidate has strong experience with public cloud and cloud-native technologies, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, observability, and production operations.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of senior or lead Cloud DevOps engineering experience.
• Experience in performance engineering and benchmarking.
• Experience deploying/operating workloads on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Proficient in Core Java, Python, or another OO language.
• Strong cloud infrastructure knowledge: compute, storage, networking, IAM, security, HA, DR.
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes or similar orchestration.
• IaC and configuration automation with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Helm, etc.
• Building/managing CI/CD pipelines and automated release workflows.
• Development or automation using Python/Go/Java.
• Familiarity with databases and database clustering.
• Linux systems administration and performance fundamentals.
• Observability using logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts.
• Distributed systems concepts: scalability, fault tolerance, availability.
• Troubleshooting production issues across app, infra, networks, and cloud.
• Full lifecycle engineering: design to runbooks.
• AI-assisted development tools for automation and troubleshooting.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, automate, and operate secure, reliable, and scalable cloud infrastructure and production platforms.
• Independently deliver cloud, DevOps, reliability, and automation improvements after alignment on plan and architecture.
• Develop automation tools, scripts, APIs, and engineering tools in Python/Go/Java.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code for provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines for build, test, security, deployment, and release.
• Deploy and operate containerized workloads using Kubernetes or comparable platforms.
• Apply cloud and distributed-systems concepts for scalability, resilience, and capacity management.
• Build observability with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts, and health checks.
• Diagnose production incidents via telemetry and system analysis; implement preventive improvements.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks and convert them into safe automation.
• Participate in production support and incident response across layers.
• Contribute to design discussions, tradeoffs, and operational runbooks.
• Apply security and reliability practices across delivery; manage access and changes.
• Engage in full engineering lifecycle and documentation.

Skills

Cloud DevOps

Performance engineering

Public cloud

Programming: Java/Python/Go

Containerization

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

AI-assisted development

Linux systems

Observability

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Job description

Role Description

We are looking for a Cloud & DevOps Engineer, Senior Member of Technical Staff (SMTS), to design, build, automate, and operate reliable, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure and production platforms. You will work with software engineers, infrastructure teams, security partners, and product teams. Your work will improve service availability, deployment reliability, operational efficiency, and developer productivity.

The ideal candidate has strong experience with public cloud and cloud-native technologies, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, observability, and production operations. They also have practical software development experience in Python, Java, Go, or another programming language. This is an engineering-focused DevOps role. We expect automation and software development to replace repetitive manual operations.

You approach ambiguous infrastructure and production problems methodically. You understand system behavior across application and infrastructure layers. You use modern engineering practices, including AI-assisted development, to improve reliability, automation, and delivery effectiveness.

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in a senior or lead role in Cloud DevOps engineering.
• Experience in performance engineering and benchmarking.
• Experience designing, deploying, or operating production workloads on public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience developing production software in Core Java, Python, or another object-oriented programming language.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts, including compute, storage, networking, load balancing, identity and access management, security, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Experience with containerization and cloud-native technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, or comparable container orchestration platforms.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration automation using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Helm, or comparable tooling.
• Experience building, maintaining, or improving CI/CD pipelines and automated build, test, deployment, and release workflows.
• Development or automation experience using Python, Go, Java, or another programming language. You can build maintainable, production-quality automation, tools, services, or APIs.
• Familiarity with databases (Postgres, HBase, Oracle, or similar) and database cluster technologies such as Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters).
• Experience with Linux systems and working knowledge of operating systems, networking, process, memory, storage, and performance fundamentals.
• Experience with production observability using logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerting platforms.
• Understanding of distributed-system and reliability concepts, including scalability, fault tolerance, resiliency, service dependencies, capacity, availability, and performance.
• Experience troubleshooting complex production issues across application, infrastructure, networking, and cloud layers.
• Experience working across the software and infrastructure delivery lifecycle: design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools or techniques for automation, software development, troubleshooting, testing, debugging, or documentation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to diagnose complex infrastructure and production problems systematically.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate across engineering and operational teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating large-scale distributed systems or high-availability production platforms.
• Experience with Kubernetes ecosystem technologies, service discovery, ingress, service mesh, autoscaling, or container platform engineering.
• Experience building internal developer platforms, self-service infrastructure, deployment frameworks, or operational automation.
• Experience developing backend services, APIs, command-line tools, controllers, operators, or automation frameworks.
• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, including service level objectives (SLOs), service level indicators (SLIs), error budgets, capacity management, and incident management.
• Experience with cloud security, IAM, secrets management, vulnerability management, policy enforcement, and infrastructure security controls.
• Experience with observability technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, or comparable platforms.
• Experience with databases, caching systems, messaging platforms, or distributed data infrastructure.
• Familiarity with multi-region, multi-cloud, disaster recovery, or large-scale cloud migration architectures.
• Familiarity with Agile development practices and iterative release cycles.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, automate, and operate secure, reliable, and scalable cloud infrastructure and production platforms.
• Independently deliver well-scoped cloud, DevOps, reliability, and automation improvements after alignment on the overall technical plan and architecture.
• Develop software, automation frameworks, scripts, APIs, and engineering tools in Python, Go, Java, or comparable languages. These reduce manual operations and improve platform reliability.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code for repeatable provisioning, configuration, deployment, and lifecycle management of cloud resources.
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines that automate build, testing, security validation, deployment, rollback, and release processes.
• Deploy and operate containerized workloads using Kubernetes or comparable cloud-native platforms.
• Apply cloud and distributed-systems concepts such as scalability, fault tolerance, service communication, networking, availability, resiliency, and capacity management.
• Build and improve observability using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts, and health checks. These give the team actionable visibility into production systems.
• Diagnose production incidents using telemetry and system-level analysis. Identify contributing factors and root causes, and implement improvements that prevent recurrence.
• Identify repetitive operational activities and convert them into safe, testable, and maintainable automation.
• Participate in production support and incident response. This includes troubleshooting complex issues across application, cloud, Kubernetes, networking, storage, and infrastructure layers.
• Contribute to infrastructure and platform design discussions, identify implementation and operational tradeoffs, and seek guidance when decisions have broader architectural, security, or product impact.
• Apply security and reliability practices throughout infrastructure and software delivery, including access controls, secrets management, change validation, testing, rollback, and deployment safeguards.
• Participate in the full engineering lifecycle: requirements refinement, design, development, code review, testing, deployment, monitoring, production support, and operational improvement.
• Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly to accelerate automation and engineering work, improve code and configuration quality, assist troubleshooting and testing, and increase team effectiveness. Apply appropriate security and quality controls.
• Collaborate effectively with software engineers, infrastructure teams, security teams, and other cross-functional partners. Communicate technical and operational decisions clearly, and contribute to engineering documentation and runbooks.