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TeraWattStaff DevOps Engineer
TeraWatt operates as a developer and provider of turnkey charging infrastructure designed for electric and autonomous vehicle fleets. The organization combines capital, real estate, and digital…
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TeraWatt operates as a developer and provider of turnkey charging infrastructure designed for electric and autonomous vehicle fleets. The organization combines capital, real estate, and digital systems to build and manage charging networks across the United States. To support this ongoing network expansion, TeraWatt is currently hiring a remote Staffendent DevOps Engineer on a full-time basis. This position centers on leading the reliability, security, and scalability of TeraWatt's cloud systems,…
Job Description
TeraWatt operates as a developer and provider of turnkey charging infrastructure designed for electric and autonomous vehicle fleets. The organization combines capital, real estate, and digital systems to build and manage charging networks across the United States. To support this ongoing network expansion, TeraWatt is currently hiring a remote Staffendent DevOps Engineer on a full-time basis.
This position centers on leading the reliability, security, and scalability of TeraWatt's cloud systems, internal software tools, and AI platform infrastructure. The selected professional will establish platform engineering standards, mentor colleagues, architect cloud environments via Terraform, and automate compliance controls. Additionally, this role involves partnering closely with product and engineering teams to maintain continuous integration workflows, manage observability through Grafana Cloud and OpenTelemetry, and operate infrastructure for data pipelines and machine learning workloads.
The annual salary for this role spans from USD 145,000 to 170,000, with actual compensation dependent on location, expertise, skills, and internal equity considerations. TeraWatt offers a comprehensive benefits package along with performance-based incentives where applicable.
Responsibilities
- Establish technical direction for platform engineering and DevOps while mentoring team members
- Lead the architecture and evolution of cloud infrastructure utilizing Terraform
- Maintain helm charts and deployment patterns for service lifecycles
- Build CI/CD tooling and pipelines via GitHub Actions
- Automate SOC 2 compliance controls and implement security detection tools across the stack
- Extend security controls to cover AI systems against risks like prompt injection and data exposure
- Drive observability across infrastructure, services, and AI workloads using Grafana Cloud and OpenTelemetry
- Develop tooling for local and remote containerized environments and automated testing scenarios
- Operate and build infrastructure for ML workloads, agent hosting, and MCP servers
- Collaborate with the data team on core infrastructure including Kafka event streams and Databricks
- Contribute to building a web-based depot operations platform utilizing NodeJS
- Take part in a 24/7 on-call rotation, leading incident responses and postmortems
Requirements
- At least eight years of experience building and operating high-availability production systems, including platform engineering or SRE leadership
- Extensive background working with managed Kubernetes on AWS, EKS, and infrastructure as code via Terraform
- Proven experience constructing CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions
- Demonstrated experience with observability practices using tools like OpenTelemetry and Grafana
- Background in leading SRE or DevOps initiatives supporting production cloud platforms
- Experience managing databases like MongoDB or PostgreSQL
- Strong communication capabilities with cross-functional collaboration skills
Qualifications
- Familiarity with multi-region AWS and EKS deployments at scale
- Experience running production LLM applications or agents, covering monitoring, cost optimization, and security controls
- Familiarity with data platforms such as Kafka and Databricks
- Proficiency in NodeJS or Python
Core Skills
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Performance-based incentives where applicable
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What is the location and remote status of this job?
This position is listed as remote with a full-time employment type.
What is the salary range for the Staff DevOps Engineer role?
The base salary ranges from USD 145,000 to 170,000 per year, determined by factors such as location, expertise, and skills.
What are the core technical experience requirements?
Candidates must have eight or more years of experience building and operating high-availability production systems, deep expertise in AWS, managed Kubernetes EKS, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools.
Does the job involve on-call duties?
Yes, team members participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation and lead incident responses and blameless postmortems.
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