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MyRacehorse · 20 hours ago

Staff/Principal DevOps Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$110K/yr - $130K/yr

MyRacehorse is pioneering fractional ownership in sports and beyond, seeking a Staff/Principal DevOps Engineer to lead the technical ownership of their platform's infrastructure. This role focuses on ensuring systems are scalable, secure, and reliable while architecting cloud infrastructure and building robust CI/CD pipelines.

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Responsibilities

Architect and Own Our Cloud Infrastructure: Design, build, and manage a scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure). You will own our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation

Build a World-Class CI/CD Engine: Create and maintain robust, automated CI/CD pipelines for our entire tech stack, including our Next.js frontend, Capacitor mobile builds, and Magento (PHP) backend. The goal is fast, reliable, and safe deployments

Stabilize and Secure the Core Platform: Take ownership of the hosting environment for our critical Magento e-commerce platform. Implement best practices for performance tuning, security hardening, and zero-downtime deployments

Champion Observability and Reliability: Implement and manage a comprehensive observability strategy using tools for logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting (e.g., Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus/Grafana). Define SLOs/SLIs to ensure platform health

Automate Everything: Drive a culture of automation across the engineering organization. Identify bottlenecks in development and operational workflows and build solutions to eliminate them

Lead Infrastructure Security & Compliance: Partner with the engineering team to implement and automate security best practices at every layer of the stack. Ensure our infrastructure meets the stringent requirements for compliance and cyber insurance

Elevate the Developer Experience (DevEx): Be a force multiplier for the engineering team by improving local development environments, streamlining build processes, and providing self-service tools that make their jobs easier

Qualification

Cloud InfrastructureInfrastructure as CodeCI/CD PipelinesContainerizationSecurity Best PracticesObservability ToolsLegacy Systems SupportCommunicationCollaboration Skills

Required

A Proven Senior DevOps/SRE: You have significant experience as a Senior, Staff, or Principal DevOps or Site Reliability Engineer, with a track record of owning the infrastructure for a high-growth product

Cloud and IaC Expert: You possess deep, hands-on expertise with a major cloud provider (AWS preferred) and have mastered Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or a similar tool

A CI/CD Master: You have extensive experience designing, building, and maintaining sophisticated CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins

Containerization Pro: You are highly proficient with Docker and have production experience with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) or ECS

Pragmatic with Legacy Systems: You have experience supporting and migrating legacy applications. Specific experience with the PHP/Magento ecosystem is a massive plus

Security-First Mindset: You instinctively build security into your designs and have experience with infrastructure security tools, vulnerability scanning, and implementing compliance controls

An Observability Advocate: You believe 'if you can't measure it, you can't improve it' and have experience building rich observability dashboards and actionable alerts

A Force Multiplier: You thrive on making the entire engineering team more productive and effective. You are an excellent communicator and collaborator