Vouched
Senior / Staff DevOps Engineer
Remote DevOps Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJul 3, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
USA
Role overview
Senior / Staff DevOps Engineer
Requirements and responsibilities
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What We Do
- Verify thousands of people every day across multiple countries and industries providing access to critical services
- Serve fast-growing startups, unicorns, and large enterprises, with a focus on providing fast, easy integration for developers
- Run on a modern cloud infrastructure powered by automated integration and unit testing, provisioning, deployments, monitoring, and notifications
- Operate in a highly regulated, security-sensitive space. Safeguarding personal and identity data is core to everything we ship
- Drive to own the market and deliver a world-changing client and end-user experience
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred) using infrastructure-as-code, with an emphasis on repeatability, security, and cost efficiency.
- Own and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines. Automated integration and unit testing, provisioning, deployments, and rollbacks to keep delivery fast and safe.
- Build and maintain observability across the platform, including monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and meaningful dashboards that surface issues before customers do.
- Improve and advance our security posture: secrets management, encryption in transit and at rest, IAM and least-privilege access, network segmentation, and vulnerability management across all infrastructure.
- Drive compliance readiness by partnering with security and leadership to maintain, automate, and provide evidence for controls across frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, (HIPAA a plus), including audit support and continuous control monitoring.
- Lead incident response and the on-call rotation; drive blameless postmortems, reduce mean-time-to-recovery, and turn lessons learned into lasting fixes.
- Define and uphold reliability targets (SLOs/SLIs), capacity planning, and performance tuning as we scale across countries and industries.
- Leverage AI-powered tooling (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and others) to accelerate infrastructure-as-code, automation, and internal tooling, and to improve incident triage and response.
- Partner with engineering to improve developer experience and deployment velocity, removing friction and automating away toil.
- Drive a culture of operational excellence, reliability, security, and continuous improvement across the engineering organization.
- Set technical direction for platform and infrastructure, and mentor engineers on DevOps, reliability, and security best practices.
- Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging AI-powered tools and workflows to improve infrastructure speed, qua
Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering within a software engineering organization.
- Deep expertise with a major cloud provider (GCP preferred) and strong understanding of networking, security, and distributed systems.
Qualifications
- Strong hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, and/or CloudFormation) and configuration management.
Qualifications
- Production experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, or ECS) and with building robust CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or similar).
- Proficiency with observability and monitoring stacks (Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch, or equivalent).
- Solid scripting and programming skills (Python, Go, Bash, or TypeScript/Node) to build automation and tooling.
- Strong grasp of cloud security best practices: IAM and least-privilege, secrets management, encryption, network security, and vulnerability management.
- Hands-on experience supporting compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA including control implementation, evidence and audit readiness, and compliance automation.
- Proficiency with AI-powered development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent; demonstrated ability to accelerate infrastructure and automation work with them.
- Experience leading incident response and participating in an on-call rotation for production systems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to document systems clearly and write actionable runbooks.
- Experience working in a startup environment is required.
- Experience managing or collaborating with distributed teams is essential.
- Familiarity with identity verification products or AI/ML-based solutions is a plus.
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- Remote working environment
- Self-managed paid time off
- 11+ annual company holidays
- 401(k)
- Health Care Benefits: Medical, Vision, Dental
- Wellness benefits: EAP, LifeHealth Online, One Medical, Perkspot
- Parental leave
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