Senior DevOps Engineer: Real-Time Cloud & Drones

BRINC Drones Inc.; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental and visa

401K plan

Maternity and paternity leave

Flexible Time Off

Flexible work environment

Orca pass (Puget Sound)

Free snacks, drinks and espresso (Se

Job summary

BRINC is seeking a DevOps Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our production systems. You’ll build secure cloud infrastructure, automation, and deployment pipelines powering real-time, worldwide drone services.

Work with software, hardware and autonomy teams to improve performance, incident response, and developer velocity, while implementing observability, on-call practices, capacity planning, and cost optimization.

Qualifications

• Degree in CS or related field; 5+ years operating production systems and building infrastructure.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals; production-quality code in Python/Node/JavaScript.
• Hands-on with Infrastructure as Code and modern cloud patterns.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and safe release processes.
• Attention to security, scalability, and performance; AWS production ops familiarity.

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

Skills

Programming in Python/Node/JavaScript

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud security practices

AWS cloud experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

AWS

Job description

BRINC is seeking a DevOps Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our production systems. You’ll build secure cloud infrastructure, automation, and deployment pipelines powering real-time, worldwide drone services.

Work with software, hardware and autonomy teams to improve performance, incident response, and developer velocity, while implementing observability, on-call practices, capacity planning, and cost optimization.