Turnitin, LLC
Principal DevOps Engineer (Poland Remote)
Remote DevOps Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJul 5, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
Poland
Role overview
Principal DevOps Engineer (Poland Remote)
Requirements and responsibilities
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Technical Leadership & Execution
- Partner with Architects to implement and operationalize platform strategy.
- Lead the technical design and delivery of platform capabilities across:Serverless-first AWS workloadsKubernetes (EKS) environments
- Serverless-first AWS workloads
- Kubernetes (EKS) environments
- Break down large architectural initiatives into executable milestones.
- Guide platform implementation patterns and reusable modules.
Details
- Serverless-first AWS workloads
- Kubernetes (EKS) environments
Reliability & Operational Improvement
- Drive systemic improvements that reduce incident frequency and severity.
- Strengthen observability standards (logging, metrics, tracing).
- Support adoption of Product focused SRE frameworks across teams.
- Improve deployment safety, change management, and incident response practices.
Platform Evolution
- Improve CI/CD automation and deployment workflows.
- Contribute to Kubernetes cluster design evolution and networking patterns.
- Improve logging pipelines, cost visibility, tagging standards, and platform guardrails.
- Support platform modernization efforts with a focus on simplification and predictability.
Engineering Enablement
- Improve developer experience across platform offerings.
- Establish clear golden paths for deployment and monitoring.
- Contribute to DORA metric visibility and engineering performance improvements.
- Support responsible AI tooling adoption in our workflows.
Influence & Mentorship
- Mentor senior engineers and elevate platform engineering standards.
- Lead technical discussions and design reviews.
- Make tradeoffs visible and articulate technical risk clearly.
- Reinforce disciplined intake and prioritization practices to protect strategic capacity.
Experience:
- 8–12+ years in infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering.
- Experience operating serverless and Kubernetes environments at scale.
- Proven track record improving reliability and reducing operational toil.
- Experience collaborating closely with multiple engineering teams.
Technical Expertise:
- Strong AWS expertise (Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, VPC).
- Strong Kubernetes/EKS experience including networking and observability.
- Advanced Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
- Strong CI/CD pipeline design experience.
- Experience with observability tooling (OpenTelemetry, OpenSearch, Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch).
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and reliability engineering.
Nice to Have:
- Experience implementing DORA metrics.
- Experience supporting SRE models and incident reduction initiatives.
- Experience improving developer onboarding and platform UX.
- Experience writing tools in scripting languages such as Python, Node.js, or similar.
- Experience evaluating AI-assisted development tooling safely.
Tii Elements:
- Resourcefulness
- Collaboration & Influencing
- Quality Focus
Tii Elements:
- Customer Centric: Our mission is focused on improving learning outcomes; we do this by putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.
- Passion for Learning: We are committed to our own learning and growth internally. And we support education and learning around the globe.
- Integrity: Integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin—it is the core of our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.
- Action & Ownership: We have a bias for action. We act like owners. We are willing to change even when it’s hard.
- One Team: We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each others' successes.
- Global Mindset: We consider different perspectives and celebrate diversity. We are one team. The work we do has an impact on the world.
Global Benefits
- Remote First Culture
- Health Care Coverage
- Education Reimbursement*Competitive Paid Time Off
- Self-Care Days
- National Holidays
- 2 Founder Days + Juneteenth Observed
- Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Charitable Contribution Match
- Monthly Wellness or Home Office Reimbursement
- Access to Employee Assistance Program (mental health platform)
- Parental Leave
- Retirement Plan with match/contribution
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