DevOps Engineer

At HappyCo, we build technology that empowers property managers, owners, and teams to deliver better experiences for their residents and customers. As an AI-powered company, we’re constantly innovating, and our infrastructure is the backbone that makes it all possible.

As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll play a vital role in shaping and scaling the systems that keep our products reliable, secure, and performant. Our DevOps team works hand-in-hand with developers, equipping them with the tools, automation, and guidance they need to follow best practices and ship with confidence. A key focus for us is improving the developer experience - making it easier and faster for our engineers to deliver great products. You’ll be part of a collaborative engineering culture where your ideas matter, and where automation, observability, and security are at the core of how we work.

You’ll partner across the organization to design and maintain world-class infrastructure, build robust deployment pipelines, and enable teams to deliver value faster. This is a hands-on role where your expertise in infrastructure, CI/CD, and cloud-native tooling will have a direct and visible impact on our ability to serve customers. If you love tackling complex infrastructure challenges, automating everything you can, and building systems that scale gracefully, you’ll thrive here.

What to Expect in Your First Months

• First 30 days: Learn our infrastructure, CI/CD workflows, and deployment processes. Actively contribute to smaller tasks while you gain familiarity with GCP, GKE, and ArgoCD environments.
• 60 days: Begin owning small improvements in Terraform, Spacelift, and GitLab pipelines. Troubleshoot issues in staging environments and contribute to deployment reliability.
• 90 days: Take ownership of significant pieces of infrastructure or CI/CD workflows. Proactively suggest and implement improvements to scalability, security, and observability across systems.

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong background with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Experience with CI/CD systems (we use GitLab CI/CD and Spacelift).
• Experience with Bazel for build processes.
• Hands-on experience with ArgoCD for GitOps-based deployments.
• Solid understanding of GCP, GKE, container orchestration, and Linux systems.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to diagnose issues across infrastructure and application layers.
• Passionate about improving our developer experience with better tools and automation.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, distributed environment spanning multiple time zones (US and AUS), requiring effective asynchronous communication.

Nice to Have

• Experience designing and maintaining observability stacks to monitor distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb, and Sentry.
• Familiarity with security best practices, particularly in SOC 2–compliant environments.
• Knowledge of secrets management, identity/access control, and audit logging.
• Exposure to security tooling such as vulnerability scanners, runtime security platforms, or compliance automation.
• Experience with PostgreSQL administration and performance tuning in production environments.
• Familiarity with backend development in GoLang or Ruby.
• Experience building self-service tooling for developers.
• Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments.

Keys to optimum happiness at HappyCo:

• Thrives in ambiguity and proactively builds clarity
• Focuses on long-term impact over quick wins
• Enables others through systems, not mandates
• Leverages technology and AI to empower people and simplify complexity
• Embraces the challenges and rewards of growing in a scaleup environment

About HappyCo

Founded in 2011, HappyCo (happy.co) builds mobile and cloud solutions to enable real-time property data. Our flagship product suite 'Happy Property’ has over 5M units on its platform.

We’re everyday people with a shared purpose — improving the lives of others. Our team is made up of thinkers, talkers, planners, makers, builders and everything in between. Together, we’re turning our passions into happier communities!

Our HappyCo Culture

HappyCo strives to build better communities. So naturally, we are dedicated to making our own community an enjoyable place that allows us do our best work. We’re devoted to building an inclusive, supportive culture that empowers each HappyCo’er to succeed and grow. To learn more about our culture, check out our careers page!

We Offer:

• Work from anywhere supported by a flexible company culture
• Opportunity to work for one of the fastest growing technology companies in the PropTech industry
• Generous paid parental leave
• Competitive and equitable pay, including stock options
• Monthly stipends to support Wellness and Home Office expenses

We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive, and building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company is core to our mission. Our goal is to ensure that HappyCo upholds an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, and veteran status. HappyCo is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.

A note to Recruitment Agencies: Please don’t reach out to us about our roles -- we’ve got it covered. We don’t accept unsolicited agency resumes and HappyCo is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.