Senior DevOps Engineer
Senior DevOps Engineer on Recharge's Infrastructure Team, designing, operating, and troubleshooting a cloud-native subscription-commerce platform on GCP using Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform. The role includes improving observability and CI/CD, mentoring engineers, applying AI/LLM tooling, and joining a 24x7 on-call rotation.
- Compensation
- $148K–$186K / yr
- Location
- United States & Canada
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 6+ years experience with Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and related technologies, including autoscaling and cluster essentials
- 5+ years experience with system observability
- 5+ years experience in cloud-native environments; GCP preferred, additional cloud environments a plus
- Experience with Git, source code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and supporting technologies
- Fundamental understanding of Linux and GNU tooling
- Fundamental understanding of container technologies and build processes
- Fundamental understanding of network concepts
- Familiarity with LLMs and supporting technologies (inference serving, vector databases, GPU workloads), both hosted and self-hosted
- Experience and willingness to deep dive into code (Python, Node, JS, Vue)
- A knack for engineering simple solutions to solve complex problems
Nice to have
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and Splunk
- GitLab experience
Full description
Recharge is the subscription platform for the world’s fastest-growing and most innovative brands. Shopify’s premier subscription solution, Recharge is on a mission to build the future of commerce around customer retention.
Known for its relentless product innovation and focus on ease of use, Recharge helps merchants deliver seamless customer experiences that drive customer retention and revenue growth. The Recharge platform leverages data from over 100 million shoppers to help brands more successfully set up, manage, and grow their subscription businesses.
Recharge is a hands-on partner to over 20,000 brands globally — including quip, Dr. Squatch, Blueland, Estrid, Oats Overnight, Bobbie, and more.
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Overview
The Infrastructure Team owns the design, operation, and reliability of our cloud-native infrastructure platform. This is a hands-on role requiring a significant depth of knowledge in Kubernetes, Linux, Networking, and the Google Cloud Platform. Senior DevOps Engineers are expected to operate independently, mentor less-senior engineers, and contribute to how the Team works — not just what it ships.
What you’ll do
- Live by and champion our values: #accountability, #collaboration, #iteration and #details
- Design, maintain and support the product platform and operational runtime: You will be part of the Team integral to the lifecycle of infrastructure components.
- Documententation, Recommendation and Implementation: You will implement new technologies to solve Recharge's technical challenges as they arise, while ensuring the team has world class documentation to fall back on.
- Champion good habits (development techniques, security, tech debt balance, TDD, and agile habits) within the Team; improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
- Troubleshooting and Maintenance: You will debug production and performance bottlenecks from across all areas in the stack Further you will be responsible for assisting the team with ensuring we meet all of our maintenance obligations.
- AI: You will design and/or optimize processes using AI (e.g., LLM-assisted development, automated documentation, issue resolution) to improve team productivity
- On-Call: You will participate in a 24x7 weekly on-call rotation, owning incident response and postmortems
What you’ll bring
- 6+ years experience with Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and related technologies
- Autoscaling and other cluster essentials
- 5+ years experience with system observability. Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and Splunk is a bonus