[Hiring] Senior DevOps Engineer @Skimmer

Role Description

Skimmer is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer — a platform engineer — to build and own the infrastructure behind our newest product line. You will report to our Chief Technology Officer and partner closely with our development, QA, and Product teams.

The New Product Development Team owns new businesses that are connected to Skimmer’s platform and mobile app. You will be responsible for creating much of the CI/CD pipelines for this new product using Skimmer’s architecture — so you get to decide how it gets built, deployed, and monitored, on a foundation that already runs at scale.

You are an experienced DevOps professional who thrives on building systems, automating workflows, and ensuring smooth, reliable deployments. You’re naturally curious and motivated — the kind of person who notices inefficiencies and digs in to improve them before anyone asks. You enjoy working in an environment where you can take ownership, explore new tools and practices, and see your work directly impact system performance and customer experience.

You will be joining a company with a collaborative culture, focus on customers, and emphasis on having a good time together!

What you'll do:

• Infrastructure & Deployment
  • Build and own the CI/CD pipelines for our new product line using Azure DevOps and related tools.
  • Manage Azure App Services, Azure PostgreSQL Server, and related Azure resources using infrastructure as code leveraging Pulumi.
  • Design deployment workflows for security, speed, and reliability from the start, and keep refining them as the product grows.
• Monitoring & Security
  • Stand up monitoring and alerting across applications and databases.
  • Use metrics and telemetry to proactively identify performance issues and drive improvements.
  • Partner with engineering teams to ensure applications are observable and secure.
• Continuous Improvement
  • Identify and act on opportunities to reduce manual processes.
  • Develop scripts, templates, and tools that improve developer experience.
  • Prioritize technical improvements that enhance uptime, performance, and observability.
• Collaboration & Culture
  • Partner cross-functionally to align deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure goals with business objectives.
  • Share best practices, document systems, and contribute to a culture of learning and curiosity.

Qualifications

• Experience managing Azure environments, particularly VMs hosting Node.js, Azure PostgreSQL, Front Door, and related monitoring tools.
• Proven expertise in building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps.
• Experience creating and refining applications and tools in Node, with an eye for performance and maintainability.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code and scripting. Bonus for direct experience with Pulumi.
• Outstanding ability to analyze system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement lasting improvements.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Sentry, New Relic, or Datadog.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Requirements

• Skimmer has downtown office spaces in Austin, TX and Toronto, ON, and remote-first employees around the US.
• Right now we can hire hybrid employees in Austin and Toronto, or remote employees in the following states: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

Benefits

• Competitive base pay + bonus potential
• Generous medical, dental, and vision plans (we pay 100% of your premium and 50% of your dependents’)
• Fantastic culture with a very strong eNPS- we work hard, celebrate wins, and learn as we go to always be improving to benefit our customers.
• Immediate access to 401(k) with company match
• Flexible PTO (MINIMUM of 10 days required every year)
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parent, 6 weeks paid leave for supporting partner
• Remote work friendly
• Comprehensive learning and development budget
• A manager dedicated to your development