Senior DevOps Engineer

Be a key contributor to an exciting remote-first software company!

Our Why.

CareerPlug empowers others to reach their potential. We do this, in part, by making it easier for our SMB (Small and Medium-sized Business) clients to hire and develop the right people. We want to positively impact the lives of our employees, our small business owner clients and their applicants/teams, a reach that impacts millions each year!

What We Do.

We provide innovative recruiting and HR software for over 60,000 clients and solve one of the biggest problems in small businesses - attracting and retaining the right people. Our applicant tracking and retention platform helps companies make better hires to have the right people in place to build a successful business. Our vision is leading us along an inspiring path to accomplish much more. The next stage of our growth will be powerful and will exponentially propel us toward exciting business, and more importantly, mission milestones.

We believe that people are the heart of our business and are committed to building one of the best places to work -- anywhere. To us, that means putting care and purpose into our hiring process, providing meaningful development and training opportunities for our team members, and living our core values every day.

CareerPlug is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse team. Our leadership takes responsibility for creating a safe and welcoming environment built on inclusion and respect for all.

Who are we looking for?

The Senior DevOps Engineer at CareerPlug is the trusted owner of the infrastructure and systems that our engineers and customers depend on every day. This role exists to give infrastructure the dedicated ownership and attention it deserves and ensure our engineering team can ship confidently and reliably. As our engineering team leans into AI-augmented development, this role will play a meaningful part in shaping the environments and infrastructure that make that work fast, safe, and reliable.

You'll span platform engineering, site reliability, and developer experience, owning everything from cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and local development environments. This role is largely self-sufficient, but deeply collaborative: you'll work closely with our Principal Engineer and Platform Engineering Manager to keep production systems healthy, secure, and always improving.

Senior DevOps Engineers at CP learn quickly, raise the bar on reliability and security, and are always looking for ways to improve the systems and processes that enable great engineering work.

What technologies do we use?

AWS (EC2, RDS/PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch), Docker, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Ruby on Rails, AI Coding Tools (Claude, Cursor, Codex, Kilo Code, etc)

Job Responsibilities:

• Own and operate CareerPlug's AWS infrastructure, keeping production systems healthy, secure, right-sized, and cost-effective

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• Manage and improve CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, GitHub Actions) to ensure fast, reliable builds and deploys for product engineers
• Contribute to the infrastructure that supports AI-augmented development, ensuring development environments stay reliable and well-suited as our use of AI coding tools expands
• Own local development environments and staging environments, ensuring engineers can set up and trust their environments for daily work
• Monitor alerting and observability infrastructure; respond to on-call incidents and conduct post-incident reviews that drive real improvements
• Write clean, well-documented infrastructure-as-code, pipeline configurations, and automation scripts
• Proactively communicate infrastructure changes, system health, and risks clearly to engineering leadership
  
  
  

Senior DevOps Engineer's Top 3 Areas of Focus:

Own the Infrastructure. Within 3–6 months of joining, the Senior DevOps Engineer will own infrastructure operations largely independently. This means going deep on the current state, understanding not just what exists, but why it was built that way, and proactively identifying and addressing what needs improvement. We're looking for someone who takes genuine ownership and acts on it.

Enable the Team. The best DevOps work is invisible to product engineers: fast pipelines, reliable environments, systems that just work. Every hour an engineer spends fighting their local environment or waiting on a flaky build is an hour not spent delivering value to customers. The Senior DevOps Engineer keeps the whole engineering team moving by removing friction from development, deployment, and day-to-day operations proactively. As the engineering team increasingly works with AI coding tools, this role will also help shape the environments and infrastructure that support that work.

Improve Continuously. Every incident is a learning opportunity. Every pipeline failure is a chance to prevent the next one. We don't just fix things and move on. We ask why something broke, what we can do differently, and how we can make the system more resilient over time.

Benefits:

• Work from home (we're fully remote)

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• Employer Paid Health Insurance
• Unlimited PTO (with minimums!)
• One-week paid PTO (pre-start date)
• Life Insurance
• Long Term Disability
• Pet Insurance
• Home Office Stipend
• 401(k) Company Match
  
  
  

Remote Work: We are a Remote First company forever. We do not have a physical office anywhere. This role may be filled by any U.S.-based candidate.

Compensation: This role pays a base salary of $145,000 with an additional $10,000 in bonus potential (paid quarterly), for a total on-target earnings of $155,000.

CareerPlug believes in equitable and transparent compensation practices. All our employees have access to what every role pays at the company. We post compensation on all our job postings. In order to ensure equity and fairness for candidates and current employees, we always lead at our best and don’t negotiate offers. Read more about our compensation philosophy here.

CareerPlug is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. CareerPlug is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.

To request a reasonable accommodation, applicants should communicate a request when contacted for an interview. All requests should be sent to accommodations@careerplug.com.

This is a remote position.