PDQ needs to architect and scale the infrastructure that powers their SaaS products, ensuring resilience, security, and cost-optimization, while also improving developer experience and productivity.
Requirements
- 7+ years of hands-on GCP and Kubernetes experience
- Proven ability to scale and cost-optimize infrastructure in a product-led growth SaaS environment
- Demonstrated ownership of the full lifecycle: architecting, building, testing, deploying, securing, and operating cloud-native products in GCP
- Track record of adopting and deploying new technologies, frameworks, and architectures
- Familiarity with applying AI in engineering or operational contexts
- CKA or CKS certifications
- Experience with one or more of our tech stack: Elixir, Phoenix Framework, Rust, TypeScript, React, Postgres
Responsibilities
- Architect and manage GCP production environments across multiple regions, ensuring resilience, scalability, and security
- Partner with DBAs, SREs, and senior engineers to lead scalability and reliability initiatives for PDQ Connect
- Design for future multi-tenancy, regional data isolation, and compliance-readiness for frameworks like FedRAMP and GDPR
- Own secure infrastructure provisioning, secrets management, IAM access controls, and runtime policies
- Harden GCP infrastructure to reduce the blast radius of misconfigurations and bad deploys
- Integrate SAST, SCA, SBOM, and CSPM tooling into the SDLC and production systems in collaboration with InfoSec and GRC
- Deliver efficient, reliable CI/CD pipelines across dev, test, and prod
Other
- This is a remote role open to candidates residing in Utah.
- 10+ years of platform/DevOps engineering experience, including 3+ years in a Staff or leadership role at a SaaS company
- Experience working in distributed teams across multiple time zones
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
- Comfortable working in agile, kanban, or shape-up delivery models
