Principal DevOps Engineer

Updated on

Oct 2, 2025

Full-Time
/
100% Remote (USA)

About the role

As a Principal DevOps Engineer at Seek, you’ll serve as a strategic leader for cloud infrastructure and operations, setting the vision for how our analytics app ecosystem scales, performs, and evolves. You’ll establish standards for automation, observability, and reliability across the organization, guide critical architectural decisions, and mentor DevOps engineers at all levels. Your expertise will shape Seek’s infrastructure strategy, ensuring our customers and partners experience seamless, secure, and performant analytics apps at a global scale. 

What you'll be doing

  • Set and drive the long-term vision for Seek’s infrastructure, CI/CD, and operational practices, ensuring alignment with business and product strategies. 

  • Lead the design and scaling of cloud-native architectures across Linux, AWS, and Cloudflare. 

  • Define and enforce infrastructure as code standards using Terraform and GitLab CI/CD, ensuring consistency and resilience. 

  • Architect advanced container orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes, enabling multi-tenant scaling and secure deployments. 

  • Guide database strategy for SQL and Snowflake, driving performance, reliability, and cost optimization. 

  • Lead the adoption of workflow orchestration platforms (Prefect) to manage critical data and compute pipelines. 

  • Champion observability across the platform with Grafana and related tooling, ensuring proactive monitoring and high availability. 

  • Establish incident management frameworks, driving blameless postmortems and systemic improvements. 

  • Partner with executives, product leadership, and cross-functional teams to balance innovation with operational excellence. 

  • Mentor and develop DevOps and engineering talent across the organization, fostering a culture of reliability and continuous learning. 

  • Represent Seek in industry forums and technical communities, contributing to thought leadership in DevOps and cloud engineering. 

Requirements

  • 9+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or cloud infrastructure leadership roles. 

  • Proven experience setting infrastructure strategy and guiding organizations through scaling challenges. 

  • Expert-level knowledge of Linux, AWS, and Cloudflare for large-scale, distributed environments. 

  • Deep expertise in containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes. 

  • Mastery of CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred) and infrastructure automation using Terraform. 

  • Advanced knowledge of SQL and Snowflake operations, performance tuning, and security. 

  • Strong programming skills in Python for automation, tooling, and system integration. 

  • Extensive experience building observability platforms with Grafana and related tools. 

  • Demonstrated success leading incident response, reliability engineering, and SLA/SLO practices. 

  • Track record of mentoring engineers, influencing technical direction, and collaborating at executive levels. 

Preferred Experience

  • Thought leadership in cloud infrastructure and DevOps (open source contributions, conference speaking, publications). 

  • Deep expertise in infrastructure security, compliance, and regulatory frameworks. 

  • Experience managing multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud strategies. 

  • Proven success leading remote-first engineering organizations through rapid scaling. 

What Sets Us Apart

Seek is committed to a culture that values ownership, flexibility, and collaboration. We prioritize work-life balance and encourage our team to explore new ideas, test hypotheses, and innovate continuously. You’ll join a diverse group of professionals dedicated to pushing the boundaries of business analytics development, with ample opportunities to grow alongside talented peers who value your expertise and vision. 

To Apply: Please send your cover letter and resume to [email protected]. Include the name of the person who referred you (if applicable). Thank you for your time and consideration.   

About the role

As a Principal DevOps Engineer at Seek, you’ll serve as a strategic leader for cloud infrastructure and operations, setting the vision for how our analytics app ecosystem scales, performs, and evolves. You’ll establish standards for automation, observability, and reliability across the organization, guide critical architectural decisions, and mentor DevOps engineers at all levels. Your expertise will shape Seek’s infrastructure strategy, ensuring our customers and partners experience seamless, secure, and performant analytics apps at a global scale. 

What you'll be doing

  • Set and drive the long-term vision for Seek’s infrastructure, CI/CD, and operational practices, ensuring alignment with business and product strategies. 

  • Lead the design and scaling of cloud-native architectures across Linux, AWS, and Cloudflare. 

  • Define and enforce infrastructure as code standards using Terraform and GitLab CI/CD, ensuring consistency and resilience. 

  • Architect advanced container orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes, enabling multi-tenant scaling and secure deployments. 

  • Guide database strategy for SQL and Snowflake, driving performance, reliability, and cost optimization. 

  • Lead the adoption of workflow orchestration platforms (Prefect) to manage critical data and compute pipelines. 

  • Champion observability across the platform with Grafana and related tooling, ensuring proactive monitoring and high availability. 

  • Establish incident management frameworks, driving blameless postmortems and systemic improvements. 

  • Partner with executives, product leadership, and cross-functional teams to balance innovation with operational excellence. 

  • Mentor and develop DevOps and engineering talent across the organization, fostering a culture of reliability and continuous learning. 

  • Represent Seek in industry forums and technical communities, contributing to thought leadership in DevOps and cloud engineering. 

Requirements

  • 9+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or cloud infrastructure leadership roles. 

  • Proven experience setting infrastructure strategy and guiding organizations through scaling challenges. 

  • Expert-level knowledge of Linux, AWS, and Cloudflare for large-scale, distributed environments. 

  • Deep expertise in containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes. 

  • Mastery of CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred) and infrastructure automation using Terraform. 

  • Advanced knowledge of SQL and Snowflake operations, performance tuning, and security. 

  • Strong programming skills in Python for automation, tooling, and system integration. 

  • Extensive experience building observability platforms with Grafana and related tools. 

  • Demonstrated success leading incident response, reliability engineering, and SLA/SLO practices. 

  • Track record of mentoring engineers, influencing technical direction, and collaborating at executive levels. 

Preferred Experience

  • Thought leadership in cloud infrastructure and DevOps (open source contributions, conference speaking, publications). 

  • Deep expertise in infrastructure security, compliance, and regulatory frameworks. 

  • Experience managing multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud strategies. 

  • Proven success leading remote-first engineering organizations through rapid scaling. 

What Sets Us Apart

Seek is committed to a culture that values ownership, flexibility, and collaboration. We prioritize work-life balance and encourage our team to explore new ideas, test hypotheses, and innovate continuously. You’ll join a diverse group of professionals dedicated to pushing the boundaries of business analytics development, with ample opportunities to grow alongside talented peers who value your expertise and vision. 

To Apply: Please send your cover letter and resume to [email protected]. Include the name of the person who referred you (if applicable). Thank you for your time and consideration.   

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