[Hiring] Principal Engineer, DevOps @Plane Software, Inc.

Role Description

Plane runs across environments we control and environments we never see: Plane Cloud, sovereign clouds, customer-managed infrastructure, self-hosted clusters, and fully air-gapped networks. As a Principal DevOps Engineer, you will own the infrastructure and operational architecture that makes this possible. You will lead how we build, deploy, secure, observe, and operate Plane across these environments, from Kubernetes, GitOps, and CI/CD to databases, incident response, compliance, and infrastructure cost. As Plane expands its agentic capabilities, you will also help build the infrastructure required to securely run AI workloads and open-weight models across cloud and customer data centers. You will work across engineering teams to make deploying and operating Plane reliable, secure, and increasingly automated at every scale.

What you'll do

• Own Plane's infrastructure and reliability across cloud, multi-cloud, self-hosted, and air-gapped deployments.
• Design and automate infrastructure, CI/CD, GitOps, secrets management, AMIs, and one-click deployments across AWS, DigitalOcean, Heroku, and other platforms.
• Own DevOps and SRE operations: observability, incident management, disaster recovery, database operations, migrations, and production reliability.
• Own infrastructure security, vulnerability management, SAST, compliance, data governance, and security standards.
• Drive infrastructure performance and cost optimization while improving deployment speed, reliability, and developer experience.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience, with production ownership of the systems you built.
• You have run AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, GitOps, Argo CD, CI/CD, and secrets management in production.
• You have operated multi-cloud, self-hosted, and air-gapped enterprise software at scale.
• You have operated and migrated large-scale Postgres, Redis, and other stateful systems across clusters.
• You are fluent in Python, Bash, or similar, with working knowledge of networking, reverse proxies, observability, and infrastructure security.

Nice to haves

• You have run bare-metal deployments and worked in restricted enterprise environments.
• You have deployed and operated open-weight models across public cloud and on-premise data centers.
• You have worked with serverless architectures and sandboxed execution environments.
• You have built infrastructure for AI agents or agentic development environments.
• You have operated infrastructure under compliance, data residency, or sovereign-cloud requirements.

Tech

• Cloud and infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Rancher, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, AMIs
• Delivery: Argo CD, GitOps, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, DigitalOcean, Heroku
• Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Sentry
• Networking: Nginx, Caddy, Kong, Traefik, DNS, load balancing
• Data and security: Postgres, Redis, secrets management, SAST, vulnerability and container scanning

Benefits

• The scope is real. We are a passion team serving companies of every size, including some of the largest in the world.
• The constraints make you better. Much of the work happens in the open, where the issues, the fixes, and the roadmap conversations are public.
• The people-and-agents future is being built here, in production. We are building that system now, for customers who already depend on it.
• Your name is on the work. The teams are deeply connected enough that credit and responsibility both find you fast.

Company Description

Plane's mission is to build the infrastructure the world's work runs on. Every organization runs on three things: the projects it's driving, the knowledge it keeps, and the requests it fields. Plane brings all three into one open, adaptable platform: simple enough for any team to adopt, dependable enough for organizations to build on.