Encord
DevOps Engineer
About this role
Join Encord's platform engineering team as a DevOps Engineer to build and operate infrastructure supporting AI data workflows at scale. You'll own CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure on GCP/AWS, Kubernetes clusters, and observability systems while driving automation and reliability across the engineering organization.
What you'll do
- Own and improve CI/CD deployment pipelines; partner with developers on infrastructure changes and release processes
- Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS including Kubernetes clusters and petabyte-scale storage
- Build automation and internal tooling to eliminate manual toil and improve developer productivity
- Profile and optimize services handling large-scale data pipelines; perform capacity planning for compute and storage workloads
- Define and own SLIs/SLOs/SLAs for critical services; build alerting, runbooks, and incident response processes
- Instrument services with distributed tracing, logging, and metrics; establish observability best practices across squads
What they're looking for
- CI/CD pipeline design and deployment automation
- Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi)
- Kubernetes and containerized workloads
- GCP and/or AWS cloud platforms
- Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- Distributed systems design and performance optimization
- Networking, operating systems, and database fundamentals
- Configuration management and automation
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity in a Series C-funded growth startup
- 18 paid vacation days plus flexible PTO and federal holidays
- Annual learning and development budget
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Strong in-person culture (4-5 days weekly in North Beach loft office)
- Bi-annual off-sites, monthly socials, and travel opportunities
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Encord
Encord builds an AI data platform that helps enterprises manage, annotate, and deploy data workflows for AI applications, particularly in robotics and autonomous driving. The company is hiring customer-facing engineers, full-stack software engineers, and data solutions specialists to support platform implementation, product development, and customer success.
- Website
- encord.com
Likely interview questions
- Tell us about a time you redesigned a CI/CD pipeline to significantly improve deployment frequency or reduce failure rates.
- How have you approached observability implementation across multiple teams, and what challenges did you encounter?