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X, The Moonshot Factory · 2 weeks ago

Senior DevOps Software Engineer, Early Stage Project

Mountain View, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$165K/yr - $225K/yr

6+ years exp

X, The Moonshot Factory is focused on inventing and launching transformative technologies. The Senior DevOps Software Engineer will own the infrastructure and deployment of technologies that leverage large language models, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure system reliability and security.

AerospaceAugmented RealityAutomotiveRobotics

Responsibilities

Act like an owner; be fearless in diving deep, asking questions, proposing solutions, establishing consensus and then making shit happen

Design and implement robust, automated, production-grade software using horizontally scalable components, while applying software engineering best practices. This includes strong code quality and understanding of the software release lifecycle, e.g. unit testing, CI/CD, production operations, logging and metrics

Implement, upgrade, and manage our Terraform IAC configurations for our GCP projects

Understand the security posture of our GCP projects and maintain a high level of security

Help us with our CI/CD infra and release qualification strategy while ensuring safe and high release velocity, e.g. dev, staging, pre-prod, prod

Help us design our GCP project strategy for new customers and cases

Work effectively with cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers, and domain experts

Provide direction and focus in areas of high ambiguity

Enjoy mentoring junior engineers and helping a team grow

Qualification

GCPTerraformDockerKubernetesPythonCloud securityCI/CDCommunication skillsMentoringTeam collaboration

Required

Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science is preferred, but at least 6+ years professional experience building products is required

Significant on-the-job experience designing, developing, maintaining and releasing software, along with ownership in making product tradeoffs and design decisions

Deep experience with GCP, a couple certifications wouldn't hurt

Prior experience and understanding of cloud security policies, network configuration and firewall rules, secret and key management, and threat modeling

Experience in containerization and job management, e.g. Docker, Kubernetes

Experience with managing software in production, including configuration, deployment and monitoring

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, e.g. design docs, PR descriptions

Proficiency in Python development, with experience in the latest Python toolchains and frameworks, e.g. uv, ruff, fastapi, Pydantic

Ability to work in the Mountain View office at least 3 days per week

Preferred

Experience in infrastructure-as-code, e.g. Terraform

Exposure to productions systems that rely heavily on ML models, and/or experience with model deployment

MLOps background, with experience deploying clusters of OSS LLMs

Experience working in start-up like environments where things can change on a dime

Consistent track record of delivering high quality solutions to large, complex software problems

Experience in finding the exact right meme or gif for any situation

Joy in learning new technologies, learning from your teammates and teaching them as well!

Passion for delighting users, but also extracting energy from both good and difficult feedback

Experience in agonizing over a technical decision for about ten minutes before understanding what the product and the team needs most and doing that (but then still wondering if you did the right thing)