[Hiring] Senior DevOps Engineer @Halcyon

Role Description

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll take technical ownership of our cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices. You’ll help us design resilient systems, scale infrastructure, mentor engineers, and collaborate across product, platform, and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and maintain our infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and automation within the DevOps function.
• Help us build secure infrastructure on AWS using Terraform, Kubernetes, and related tooling.
• Own and improve CI/CD workflows, enabling fast and reliable deployments across teams.
• Advise and support your fellow DevOps engineers, fostering autonomy, quality, and professional growth.
• Define and track operational metrics, including deployment success rate, infrastructure cost, scaling efficiency, and recovery time.
• Drive incident readiness and response, ensuring strong observability and alerting across systems.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to align infrastructure goals with broader product and platform objectives.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and DevOps engineering.
• Deep experience with AWS and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform preferred).
• Proficient with Kubernetes and deployment tooling such as Helm.
• You know CI/CD inside and out—GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins, whatever gets the job done.
• You can script in Python, Bash, or something similar.
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Datadog, or ELK/OpenSearch.
• Strong understanding of cloud security practices: IAM, encryption, secure network design, compliance.
• Proven ability to mentor, lead technical initiatives, and drive strategic outcomes.
• Solid understanding of systems performance and reliability, with experience improving deployment reliability and infrastructure scalability.
• Comfortable working in a polyglot environment (e.g., Scala, Rust, Python).
• You’ve got strong opinions on infrastructure—and the humility to evolve them.
• You care about security, performance, and doing things the right way.
• You’re collaborative, curious, and not afraid to get in the weeds.

Bonus Skills and Qualifications

• You’ve worked with Kafka, Postgres, DynamoDB, or OpenSearch.
• You’ve designed for multi-region, high-availability environments.
• You’ve played with service mesh tools like Istio.
• AWS certifications? Cool, but not required.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents.
• Short and long-term disability coverage, basic life and AD&D insurance plans.
• Medical and dependent care FSA options.
• 401k plan with a generous employer contribution.
• Flexible PTO policy.
• Parental leave.
• Generous equity offerings.

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

The expected base salary range for this position is $180,000 - $220,000. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors which include (but are not limited to) role level, skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, location, and experience. In addition to base pay, certain roles are eligible to participate in our bonus or commission plans, as well as our benefits offers, and equity awards.

In accordance with applicable state and federal laws, the range provided is Halcyon’s reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location. Base pay is one part of the total package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and equity in the Company.

We understand it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, passionate, curious, and creative people to develop the exceptional product we are building. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity employer.