The Athletic
Staff Devops Engineer
Remote DevOps Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJul 4, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
USA
Role overview
Staff Devops Engineer
Requirements and responsibilities
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Responsibilities
- Develop new features based on specifications, ensuring to always optimize for scalability and performance.
- Contribute to and engage in our scrum process through sprint planning, review, retrospectives and daily standups.
- Understand the technical requirements of new requests and work with other engineers to ensure the end result matches expectations of building a world class product.
- Fix live bugs and triage the issue with company peers so the root cause can be identified. We can patch live issues but we always go back to fix the bigger problem.
- Validate the quality of your work through manual and automated testing. We believe engineers own their code throughout the whole lifecycle of development until it’s live, giving them visibility and ownership over their work.
Requirements
- 4+ years of relevant engineering experience.
- Knowledge of Terraform and CI/CD tools.
- Knowledge of AWS products:
- Lambda
- Elastic Beanstalk
- ECS
- Cloudfront
- S3
- IAM
- Experience working with high availability websites
- Experience with Cloud CDN tools like Fastly and Cloudflare.
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