[Hiring] Staff/Lead Platform/DevOps Engineer @Mimica

Role Description

Mimica is growing fast, and so is the demand on our Platform Team. As a DevOps / Platform Engineer, you will join a lean but highly capable team that is the backbone of every engineering squad in the company.

• Service the entire engineering organization: keeping environments healthy, unblocking teams, and building the infrastructure that lets everyone else move faster.
• Work on ambitious infrastructure projects:
  • Expanding to multi-region and single-tenancy environments.
  • Supporting BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) deployments.
  • Migrating our IaC from Terraform to Crossplane.
  • Getting serious about FinOps.
• Debug RBAC issues in production and design multi-cloud access patterns from scratch.

Qualifications

• Solid hands-on experience with Kubernetes, preferably on GKE, EKS, OnPrem, or another managed Kubernetes service.
• Proven experience with Terraform as your primary IaC tool; familiarity with Terragrunt is a plus.
• IAM and identity management experience on GCP (preferred) or AWS.
• Experience with ArgoCD or a comparable GitOps tool for continuous delivery.
• Observability experience with platforms like Honeycomb, Datadog, Grafana, or New Relic.
• Comfortable writing code, particularly Python, to automate platform tasks and build internal tooling.
• Background in startups or scale-ups.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience leading and participating in incident responses.

Requirements

• Experience running GPU workloads on Kubernetes, particularly in ML infrastructure (bonus).
• Familiarity with Crossplane or strong interest in migrating from Terraform (bonus).
• Experience with Temporal for workflow orchestration (bonus).
• Hands-on knowledge of Grafana Alloy, Loki, or similar observability tooling (bonus).
• Experience with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server (bonus).
• Security engineering experience, particularly around hardening Kubernetes environments (bonus).

Benefits

• Generous compensation + stock options.
• Distributed work: Work from anywhere - fully remote, in our hubs, or a mix.
• Company-issued laptop, remote setup stipend, and co-working budget.
• Flexible schedules and location.
• Ample paid time off, in addition to local public holidays.
• Enhanced parental leave.
• Health & retirement benefits.
• Annual learning & development budget.
• Annual workaways and regular virtual & in-person socials.
• Opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking projects that shape the future of work.