Staff Software Engineer, Devops

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 156,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Life & disability insurance

Paid vacation/PTO

401(k) retirement plan

Equity opportunities

Job summary

Ladders is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Devops to shape a leader in Manufacturing & Automotive's core cloud and container platform. Remote work available with strong focus on reliable, secure, and scalable operations across production environments.

You will partner with engineering, data, and operations teams to support manufacturing workloads and emerging business needs, leading platform reliability and deployment standardization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in DevOps or reliability roles with production platforms.
• Deep AWS expertise with multi-account governance and hybrid connectivity.
• Production Kubernetes on EKS and self-managed clusters.
• Strong Python and infrastructure as code (AWS CDK preferred).

Responsibilities

• Architect a hybrid Kubernetes platform across Amazon EKS and self-managed clusters.
• Evolve the multi-account AWS environment, with a focus on governance and connectivity.
• Establish the reliability practice, including on-call rotation and observability standards.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to provide CI/CD templates and self-service environments.
• Shape platform support for manufacturing, data pipelines, and emerging workloads.
• Implement security and cost discipline through policy guardrails and resource management.
• Mentor engineers and document processes to enable team autonomy.

Skills

DevOps experience

AWS expertise

Kubernetes in production

Python

CI/CD pipelines

GitOps

Reliability engineering

Hybrid networking

Tools

AWS CDK

GitOps tooling

Job description

For our client, we are seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Devops to join the team of a leader in the Manufacturing & Automotive space.

This role will shape the company’s core cloud and container platform, with a focus on enabling reliable, secure, and scalable operations across production environments. You will partner closely with engineering, data, and operations teams to support manufacturing workloads and other emerging business needs. The position combines deep infrastructure engineering with reliability leadership, helping standardize deployment practices and strengthen the platform foundation.

Location: Remote

Compensation: $155,854 – $233,781 annually

Responsibilities

• Architect a hybrid Kubernetes platform across Amazon EKS and self-managed clusters


• Evolve the multi-account AWS environment, with a focus on governance and connectivity


• Establish the reliability practice, including on-call rotation and observability standards


• Partner with cross-functional teams to provide CI/CD templates and self-service environments


• Shape platform support for manufacturing, data pipelines, and emerging workloads


• Implement security and cost discipline through policy guardrails and resource management


• Mentor engineers and document processes to enable team autonomy

Qualifications

• 10+ years in DevOps, site reliability, platform, or infrastructure engineering with a focus on production platforms


• Deep AWS expertise with hands‑on experience in multi‑account governance and hybrid connectivity


• Proven experience running Kubernetes in production on EKS and self‑managed clusters


• Strong Python skills and experience with infrastructure as code, preferably AWS CDK


• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps tooling for Kubernetes deployments


• Track record in reliability engineering, including SLOs and incident management practices


• Solid understanding of hybrid networking across cloud and on‑premises environments

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance


• Life and disability insurance


• Vacation and paid time off


• 401k retirement plan


• Potential participation in equity and discretionary incentive programs

Our client is an equal opportunity employer.