Staff Software Engineer

Evolve; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Evolve is on a mission to simplify vacation rental technology. We’re seeking a Staff Engineer to help build, secure, and scale our platform, influencing architecture across teams and driving initiatives to reduce tech debt.

You’ll lead CI/CD, container orchestration with Kubernetes, and cloud reliability while embedding security and evaluating AI tooling to advance the engineering org.

Qualifications

• Experience leading DevOps transformations and CI/CD design.
• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Ability to architect secure infrastructure with IAM least-privilege.
• Experience evaluating AI tooling in production contexts.

Responsibilities

• Lead CI/CD pipeline design and optimization.
• Define container orchestration strategy with Kubernetes.
• Improve cloud infrastructure reliability and security controls.
• Champion a security-first culture across systems.

Skills

CI/CD design

DevOps transformation

Security-focused mindset

AI tooling

Tools

Kubernetes

IAM

Vulnerability scanning

Secrets management

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

At Evolve, weâre on a mission to make vacation rental easy for everyone. Our high-performing, customer-obsessed team runs on curiosity, communication, and accountabilityâworking together to create exceptional experiences for our owners and guests. Whether solving big challenges, delivering outstanding results, or celebrating wins, we approach every day with purpose and passion. If youâre ready to join a mission-driven company where every teammate has the opportunity to thrive, Evolve might just be the place for you.

Why this role

We're looking for a highly motivated Staff Engineer to join our Engineering Team to help us build, secure, and scale the infrastructure that powers Evolve end-to-end. You will be a sought-out engineer for the most impactful and broad-ranging problems – from driving DevOps transformation and architecting secure, reliable systems to setting the standard for how we adopt and critically evaluate emerging AI tooling. This is a critical role where you will regularly influence the direction of platform architecture across multiple teams and domains, lead initiatives that tackle systemic tech debt, and ensure cross-functional dependencies and risks are well understood and effectively managed. If you do your best work when the problems are hard, the stakes are high, and the work shapes how an entire engineering organization operates – this role is for you.

What you’ll do

Drive DevOps transformation – lead CI/CD pipeline design and optimization, container orchestration strategy (Kubernetes), and cloud infrastructure reliability – establishing patterns that scale across teams and reduce friction from code to production. Champion a security-first culture – architect secure infrastructure by default: secrets management, IAM least-privilege, vulnerability scanning, and compliance controls embedded as guardrails, not gates – and hold the bar across every system the team touches. Apply AI tooling with rigor – leverage AI-assisted deve