WHOOP · 1 day ago
Senior DevOps Engineer (Application Infrastructure)
Boston, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$150K/yr - $210K/yr
5+ years expWHOOP is on a mission to unlock human performance and healthspan. As a Senior DevOps Engineer on the AppInfra team, you will drive large-scale architecture projects, collaborate with teams to design and implement secure and scalable infrastructure, and ensure optimal performance of the software delivery pipeline.
Consumer ElectronicsFitnessSportsWearablesWellness
Responsibilities
Design, develop, and operate WHOOP’s Kubernetes clusters running on AWS infrastructure
Drive architectural decisions to improve scalability, resiliency, performance, and security across the build and deployment platform
Build systems and tooling that increase deployment safety and accelerate release velocity to Kubernetes
Advance CI/CD capabilities to support frequent, reliable production deployments
Lead developer productivity improvements through tooling, automation, and platform integrations
Partner with application, security, and data teams to embed secure-by-default infrastructure practices
Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems to continuously improve platform reliability
Mentor and provide technical leadership to engineers on the Application Infrastructure team
Help define and execute the long-term roadmap for infrastructure and Kubernetes management at WHOOP
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform, Site Reliability, Cloud Engineering, or Backend Software Engineering roles
Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture and core components
Strong knowledge of container networking concepts, including overlay networking, service meshes, and network policies
Experience with multi-cluster Kubernetes environments and inter-cluster communication patterns
Hands-on experience operating cloud infrastructure, preferably in AWS (e.g., IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, CloudTrail, Organizations)
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. Terraform)
Experience developing backend or infrastructure-adjacent services using Java, C#, or Python
Proven ability to evaluate system performance, identify bottlenecks, and use data to drive improvements
Experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders and prioritizing work for maximum business impact
Preferred
Experience operating Kafka or other large-scale distributed systems
Experience with Kubernetes security best practices, including RBAC, secrets management, and pod security standards
Exposure to service reliability practices such as SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
Prior experience supporting compliance or security-focused infrastructure initiatives
Benefits
Meaningful equity
Benefits
Generous equity package
Company
WHOOP
WHOOP is a fitness tech company that offers wearables that track sleep, recovery, and performance.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$404.75MKey Investors
SoftBank Vision FundIVPFoundry Group
2026-01-15Undisclosed
2021-08-30Series F· $200M
2020-10-28Series E· $100M
Leadership Team
Will Ahmed
Founder & CEO
Aurelian Nicolae
Co-Founder & Chief Hardware Engineer
Recent News
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