Ponderosa Talent Group · 10 hours ago
Staff DevOps Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$230K/yr - $260K/yr
5+ years expPonderosa Talent Group is currently working with a well-funded Series C startup looking to bring on a Staff DevOps Engineer. This high-impact infrastructure role focuses on scaling a modern, cloud-native platform that handles large volumes of real-time data and customer integrations, requiring collaboration with product and engineering teams to design, deploy, and operate the systems that power the company’s core platform.
Staffing & Recruiting
Responsibilities
Work closely with product and engineering teams to design, deploy, and operate the systems that power the company’s core platform
Qualification
Required
5–10 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles
Experience working in startup or growth-stage B2B SaaS environments
Strong track record of ownership and impact within small, fast-moving teams
Deep hands-on experience with Terraform and Kubernetes
Strong cloud experience with AWS
Experience designing and operating highly scalable, distributed systems
Experience supporting high-throughput or real-time data workloads
Experience building and maintaining production-grade CI/CD pipelines
Preferred
GCP or Azure experience is a plus
Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry)
Experience with Redis or Elasticsearch
Experience with self-hosted deployments and VPC-style architectures
Exposure to multi-cloud environments
Company
Ponderosa Talent Group
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase