Senior DevOps Engineer

Cantos Ventures; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Coverage

Equity

401(k) plan

Flex Benefit

Commuter Benefits

Job summary

Scribe is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to architect, maintain, and scale critical infrastructure. You will drive reliability, performance, and deployment strategies that empower engineering teams to ship with confidence.

Ideal candidates bring 7+ years in DevOps/SRE, deep AWS/EKS and Kubernetes experience, and hands-on Terraform, GitHub Actions, and CNCF tooling. You will own capacity planning, cost management, and secure, zero-downtime deployments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure roles.
• AWS expertise, including EKS, VPC, S3, and RDS/Aurora.
• Deep Kubernetes internals and multi-environment management.
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform (mod development and state).
• CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.
• Experience with CNCF tools like Helm and Karpenter.
• Observability with Honeycomb, Sentry, and CloudWatch.
• Zero-downtime deployment strategies with automated rollbacks.
• Strong networking: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, traffic routing.
• Experience managing async job processing systems and message queues.
• Strong scripting: Python, Go, Bash.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Build and maintain Terraform modules for infra changes.
• Drive capacity planning and cost management for production.
• Add observability with Honeycomb, Sentry, and CloudWatch.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions and reusable workflows.
• Own networking, traffic routing, and security configurations.

Skills

DevOps/SRE expertise

AWS & EKS

Kubernetes administration

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD pipelines

Networking fundamentals

Scripting (Python/Go/Bash)

Capacity planning & cost mgmt

Observability (Honeycomb/Sentry/CloudW

Zero-downtime deployments

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Helm

Karpenter

CloudWatch

Honeycomb

Sentry

Job description

About Scribe

Scribe is where exceptional people come to do the best work of their careers. More than 94% of the Fortune 500 use Scribe to own their specialized intelligence: the unique way their teams work, decide, and get things done. Our Specialized Intelligence platform automatically captures how work happens and turns it into a living asset that helps people and AI agents do their best work.

We're growing fast. Since our founding in 2019, we've grown to 90,000+ customers and 7 million users across 600,000 businesses. Based in San Francisco, we've been named a LinkedIn Top Startup, are valued at over $1 billion, and are backed by leading investors. Join us in our mission to transform how people do work.

About the role

We're seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to architect, maintain, and scale our critical infrastructure. You'll be responsible for ensuring system reliability, optimizing performance, and implementing modern deployment strategies that enable our engineering teams to ship with confidence.

This role requires deep technical expertise across AWS, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps tooling, combined with strategic thinking about capacity planning and system evolution.

What you'll do

• Architect and scale our AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure to suit our evolving requirements

• Build and maintain the Terraform modules the rest of engineering relies on for infrastructure changes

• Drive capacity planning and cost management across production systems

• Build observability into our services with Honeycomb, Sentry, and CloudWatch so issues surface before they become incidents

• Manage CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, shared composite actions, and reusable workflows

• Own networking, traffic routing, and security configuration, including load balancing, WAF, and DNS

What we're looking for

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles

• Deep expertise with AWS services, particularly EKS, VPC, S3, and RDS/Aurora, and Well-Architected framework

• Extensive experience with Kubernetes internals, cluster administration, and multi-environment management

• Strong proficiency writing and maintaining infrastructure as code using Terraform, including module development and state management

• Production experience with CNCF projects such as Helm for package management and Karpenter for node provisioning

• Proven experience developing and managing CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions

• Hands-on experience with observability tooling including Honeycomb, Sentry, and AWS CloudWatch

• Deep expertise implementing zero-downtime deployment strategies with automated rollbacks

• Strong networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, and traffic routing

• Experience managing async job processing systems and message queues at scale

• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Go, Bash, or similar)

• Proven track record of capacity planning, performance optimization, and cost management initiatives

• Familiarity authoring AGENTS.md files and DNA scaffolding that encode our conventions and steer AI review bots

Nice to have

• Experience designing alerting strategies for production services with on-call runbooks

• Proficiency building dashboards and visualizations for real-time service health

• Background in database monitoring solutions for RDS Postgres

• Experience creating custom metrics and instrumentation for application-specific insights

• Hands-on experience with application profiling to identify performance bottlenecks

• Experience with Cloudflare WAF including origin shielding and firewall rule management

• Familiarity with Okta IdP integration and Single Sign-On (SSO) implementations

• Experience designing and implementing RBAC systems across AWS and Kubernetes

Why you'll love working here

• Incredible ownership. We have the reach of a large company and the team size of a startup, so you'll own a large part of what we build. Customers like T-Mobile, LinkedIn, HubSpot, New York Life and Northern Trust already run on what you'll help build.

• The right moment. We raised a $75M Series C in November 2025 at a $1.3B valuation, after revenue more than doubled the year before, and users have already documented more than 10 million workflows across 40,000 software applications. Enterprises like New York Life and Havas Media use Scribe Optimize today, but many of its core systems are still being designed, so if you join now, you help decide how they work.

• Smart is the floor, kind is the bar. We love to see each other win, and One Team, One Dream is one of the most shouted-out values in #values.

Compensation & Location

Salary and office requirements vary by location. All full-time employees receive equity in Scribe. Final offers depend on experience and scope.

Benefits

• Healthcare Coverage – Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including two $0/month medical plan options for employees

• Equity – Ownership in what we're building

• 401(k) plan through Vestwell

• Flex Benefit – $500/year for home office equipment, productivity tools, learning & development or fitness/wellness

• Commuter Benefits – $100/month for SF based employees

• PTO – Flexible paid time off and company holidays

• Parental Leave – Paid leave to support growing families

• Wellness & Family Support – Free Talkspace membership, One Medical access (location-dependent), and Kindbody discounts for family planning

At Scribe, we celebrate our differences and are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel supported and empowered to do their best work. Scribe is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.