State Affairs is looking to build a category-defining business that will reshape America by strengthening visibility into what's happening and why at the state level. The Software Engineer, DevOps will lay the foundation for the platform on which State Affairs will run and operate.
Requirements
- Professional work experience building production back‑ends in Node/TypeScript or a similar typed language
- Professional work experience shipping secure, audited systems such as SOC‑2, FedRAMP, or ISO 27001
- Knowledge of at least one SQL store, such as Postgres and a schema‑first mindset
- Ability to automate operational tasks such as deployment, testing, and monitoring (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and K8s)
- Ability to build data pipelines (Kafka, Kinesis, or equivalent) and event‑driven architectures.
- Ability to program using coding workflows by leveraging AI tools such as Cursor, Windsurf and/or Claude Code
- Professional work experience with document AI, search indexes (Elastic/Lucene), or knowledge graphs (e.g., Neo4j)
Responsibilities
- Lay the foundation for the platform on which State Affairs will run operate
- Design and build distributed services (Node and TypeScript, Prisma, Postgres, Mongo) that ingest, enrich, and serve millions of documents
- Build large-scale distributed systems to handle petabyte content scale
- Raise expectations for code quality, reliability and product velocity.
- Lead by example on code quality via pair‑reviewing, writing generative tests, and mentoring teammates in modern TypeScript patterns
- Ship secure and compliant code by implementing security concepts to develop software dealing with sensitive data
- Operate by utilizing AI tools like Cursor, Claude‑Code, Copilot/Codex, or whatever comes next into your daily flow to increase iteration loops.
Other
- 5+ years of professional work experience as an DevOps Engineer
- This is an onsite work opportunity and our teams operate from the Washington, DC office (located at L and 15th St. NW).
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future company sponsorship.
- State Affairs is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs.
- State Affairs is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as they go through our job application and interview process.
