[Hiring] Staff DevOps Engineer @Built Technologies

Role Description

We’re seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to join our Cloud Platform Team — the engineer who sets the technical direction for how Built’s infrastructure is designed, operated, and evolved. This is the most senior individual contributor role on the platform team, and it goes well beyond day-to-day operations. You’ll architect the systems that every engineering team at Built depends on, define the standards that others work within, and drive the platform roadmap with full autonomy. By raising the reliability and velocity of our infrastructure, you directly enable Built’s mission of radically disrupting construction finance.

What You’ll Do

• Architect and own Built’s core cloud infrastructure on AWS — defining the patterns, standards, and systems that all engineering teams build on, from EKS/ECS cluster design to VPC topology to IAM governance.
• Lead platform modernization — driving the migration and simplification of our software delivery lifecycle, rationalizing tooling, and building the infrastructure foundation for Built’s AI-related product initiatives.
• Own SLOs and SLIs for the platform — define them, instrument them in your observability stack, and lead the team in meeting reliability targets consistently across all environments.
• Define DevOps engineering standards across the team — IaC patterns, CI/CD architecture, container orchestration standards, and observability frameworks.
• Drive the platform roadmap in partnership with engineering leadership — balancing foundational investment with immediate delivery needs and communicating trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Lead incident response and postmortems — serve as the technical escalation point for complex infrastructure failures, drive systemic improvements, and reduce incident volume over time.
• Evaluate and adopt new technologies across the platform stack — making sound build-versus-buy decisions with a clear view of long-term trade-offs and ROI.
• Mentor a team of 5 platform engineers through design reviews, pairing, architecture guidance, and knowledge-sharing sessions across the broader engineering organization.
• Partner with Information Security to lead vulnerability assessment and security architecture — ensuring compliance, proactive risk management, and adherence to regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure in a production environment.
• Expert-level AWS knowledge — deep fluency with EKS, ECS, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, and cost management tooling.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise — cluster architecture, networking, RBAC, autoscaling, and debugging production workloads at scale.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code proficiency with Terraform — writing extensible, maintainable modules and enforcing IaC standards across the team.
• Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or similar tooling.
• Hands-on observability experience with Datadog, Grafana, or similar platforms — metrics, logs, traces, monitors, SLO tracking, and alerting.
• Familiarity with incident management tooling (Incident.io, PagerDuty, or similar) and a track record of leading postmortems and driving systemic reliability improvements.
• Fluency in at least one scripting or automation language — Python, Go, or Bash.
• Strong communication skills — able to present infrastructure risks and architectural trade-offs to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• Experience with other IaC tools (Pulumi, CloudFormation, CDK) is a plus.
• Experience with service catalog and developer experience tooling (OpsLevel, Backstage, or similar).
• Background in fintech, lending, or regulated industries where uptime, auditability, and data security are critical.
• FinOps experience — cloud cost governance, right-sizing, and spend transparency across engineering teams.
• Contribution to open-source infrastructure projects or published engineering RFCs.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits including: uncapped vacation, health, dental & vision insurance.
• 401k with match and expedited vesting.
• Robust compensation package, including equity in the form of stock options.
• Learning Grant program to support ongoing professional development.

Operational Details

• Team size: You’ll join a team of 5 platform engineers, with this role serving as the senior technical anchor.
• On-call: Rotations run approximately one week every six weeks. We work continuously to reduce incident volume and toil so that on-call is manageable and low-noise.
• Location: Remote (US). Flexible working hours.
• Salary range: $175,000-$235,000 USD per year.