Staff DevOps Engineer

Description

The company builds a personalization platform that uses AI agents across the customer journey, covering autonomous search, conversational shopping, and marketing automation, all run on one AI engine. Over 1,400 global brands use it, across retail, financial services, hospitality and gaming.

The Infrastructure team runs the core infrastructure on Google Cloud and supports other engineering teams, who each release, operate and monitor their own applications. The team also reviews design proposals, checks performance and availability, and sometimes builds core components such as logging or authorization.

The company is hiring a Staff DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer to strengthen this team. If you do not meet the requirements below, Senior DevOps roles are open in Czechia and Slovakia.

The tech stack includes Kubernetes on GKE, Terraform, GitLab, and a wide range of Google Cloud managed services such as Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Bigtable, Dataflow and Pub/Sub. The team also self-hosts MongoDB, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Etcd, Victoria Metrics, InfluxDB and Sentry, and works in Python and Golang.

Responsibilities

• Work with other engineering teams to design sustainable infrastructure, microservice solutions and a robust production environment.
• Own the design and specification of infrastructure initiatives and split them into tasks the team can carry out.
• Lead projects that cross several engineering teams.
• Automate tools and infrastructure to cut manual work.
• Monitor applications and take part in the on-call rotation when required.
• Use AI assistants in your daily work while keeping full understanding of, and responsibility for, all code you ship.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of production experience with Kubernetes, including operating clusters around the clock, not just deploying to them.
• At least 5 years of production experience with GCP (preferred), AWS or Azure, including public cloud risks and benefits, infrastructure as code, and choosing between managed and self-hosted services.
• At least 5 years of production experience with Python or Go, enough to read code confidently and to review AI-generated Python for correctness, security and fit, and to build custom tooling when needed.
• Preferred: on-duty experience, plus experience with Grafana and Prometheus.
• Guide only, not a checklist: you can design and review proposals and weigh managed against self-hosted options.
• Guide only: you have led projects across teams, coordinating engineers who do not report to you.
• Guide only: you can take a defined maintenance or project task to completion alone and explain every change you made.
• Guide only: you use AI to work faster while questioning and verifying its output.
• Guide only: you follow Kubernetes and related technologies closely.
• Guide only: you have spoken at or attended DevOps conferences.
• Guide only: you have configured pod and container security context, network policies, roles and role bindings, pod affinity, host paths, pod disruption budgets, priority classes and node taints.
• Guide only: you have tuned resource requests and limits, HPAs or VPAs based on real usage.
• Guide only: you know your clusters well, including node machine types, enabled features, versions and node autoscaling, and have upgraded Kubernetes versions without disrupting live applications.
• Guide only: you have written a Terraform module with several interconnected resources.
• Guide only: you have set up monitoring and alerts, and worked with DevOps, configuration management and CI tools such as Terraform, GitLab, Ansible and Docker.
• Guide only: you have onboarded and trained new team members.

Conditions

Full-time role, working from home or from the Central Europe offices in Bratislava, Brno or Prague.

Base salary range of €48,800 to €61,000. The actual offer may differ and depends on factors such as skills, qualifications, location, experience, credentials, internal equity and business needs.

Restricted Stock Units or Stock Options are granted based on role, seniority and location.

Everyone shares in the company performance bonus.

No clocking in or out, and no heavy corporate rules or long approval processes.

Benefits

• Flexible working hours.
• Virtual-first way of working, with several hubs across three continents.
• Freedom and trust, with a focus on results from the first day.
• A $1,500 annual education budget for books, courses and certifications.
• Personal development workshops, competency maps for select functions, and an in-house communication coach.
• Leader Development Program for managers, including feedback, coaching and check-ins.
• Employee Assistance Program with counselors for non-work challenges.
• Calm subscription for sleep and meditation.
• One extra day off each quarter for a company-wide DisConnect day.
• Sports, yoga and meditation sessions organized by colleagues.
• Up to 26 calendar weeks of extended parental leave for primary caregivers.
• Up to 5 paid volunteering days per year.
• Work anniversary celebrations, called Bloomversaries.
• Company events held around the world.
• Interns are exempt from some benefits, usually during their first 6 months.