[Hiring] Principal DevOps Engineer @Bitsight

Role Description

We're looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer to shape how Bitsight builds and runs its cloud platform. You'll sit at the intersection of architecture and hands-on delivery. You'll work with stakeholders across the organization to understand the underlying business needs and set infrastructure direction, balance priorities, and agree investment. Teams across R&D will bring you their hardest platform problems, and you'll leave behind patterns they can reuse without needing you.

What You'll Do

• Own platform architecture. Make and document the infrastructure decisions that product teams build on, across AWS, with growing footprints in GCP and Azure.
• Own availability. Set SLOs for core platform services and meet them. Lead the response to major incidents and make sure post-mortem follow-ups actually ship.
• Run Kubernetes at scale. Operate EKS clusters, including capacity planning, node and pod density, graceful shutdown, and access models that give developers the access they need.
• Build reusable infrastructure as code. Write and maintain Terraform modules (RDS, S3, IAM) that product teams use directly. Retire old infrastructure repos and accounts cleanly.
• Lead AI platform infrastructure. Operate and improve our internal AI gateway (LiteLLM, Langfuse). Evaluate alternatives, onboard new models quickly, and build the cost reporting, guardrails and model-request policy around them.
• Deliver data residency. Keep US and EU environments at parity so regulated customers get the same product wherever their data lives.
• Make observability and cost visible. Design logging and metrics pipelines (OpenSearch, Sumo Logic, archival to S3) and enforce hygiene such as lifecycle policies, orphaned-resource cleanup and accurate tagging.
• Multiply others. Mentor DevOps and backend engineers, review designs, and turn repeated one-off requests into self-service tooling.
• Where appropriate, run POCs and prototype new solutions. Evaluate cost benefits and bring the best solutions to fruition.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in infrastructure, SRE or DevOps roles, with at least 3 at staff or principal level setting technical direction.
• Deep AWS expertise (EKS, RDS, S3, IAM), plus working knowledge of GCP or Azure.
• Strong Terraform skills and a track record of building modules that other teams actually adopt.
• Production Kubernetes experience, including Helm, GitOps workflows and cluster lifecycle management.
• Experience owning uptime for production systems, including on-call and incident command.
• The judgement and maturity necessary to evaluate AI opportunities and to convert them into new capabilities. Monitor the results and mature our usage.
• Clear written communication. You can write an architecture proposal that a VP and a junior engineer both understand.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with multi-region deployments or EU data residency requirements.
• Familiarity with Crossplane, kgateway or similar platform-engineering tools.
• Experience building internal developer platforms or CLIs.

Benefits

• Base salary range: $126,000.00 - $180,000.00 USD Annual for US-based employees.
• Participation in a bonus or commission plan and an equity grant.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• Flexible time off.
• 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Tuition reimbursement.

Belonging & Inclusion

Bitsight is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. This means we do not tolerate discrimination of any kind and are committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of your gender identity, race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, status as a protected veteran, or status as an individual with a disability.

Culture

We put our people first. Bitsight offers best in class benefits. We devote the same energy to nurturing our company's inclusive culture as we apply to serving our customers' needs. Working at Bitsight will give you the opportunity to fulfill your professional goals and expand your skills.

Open-minded

If you got to this point, we hope you’re feeling excited about the job description you just read. Even if you don’t feel that you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We’re eager to meet people that believe in Bitsight’s mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways.

Additional Information for United States of America Applicants

Bitsight is committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. Bitsight will not discharge, discipline or in any other manner discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because such employee or applicant has inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the compensation of the employee or applicant or another employee or applicant.