Senior Developer Operations Engineer
Job Summary
The opportunity
We are looking for an outstanding Senior DevOps Engineer to join Aura our revolutionary large-scale mobile content discovery platform used by millions of users this role you wont just keep the lights onyou will take a leading role in shaping our data infrastructure setting architectural standards for AI/ML workloads and bridging the gap between DevOps and Data Engineering.
Why youll love this team: We move fast use cutting-edge technologies and value absolute technical excellence over rigid bureaucracy. If you are passionate about solving complex high-traffic infrastructure puzzles and want to see your work directly impact millions of daily users this is the sandbox youve been looking for.
What youll be doing
- Design Data-Native Cloud Solutions: Design and implement scalable data and AI/ML infrastructure across multiple environments using Kubernetes orchestration platforms and IaC to power our AI ML and analytics ecosystem
- Accelerate Data/ML Engineer Experience: Spearhead improvements to data pipeline deployment monitoring tools and self-service capabilities that empower data teams to deliver insights faster with higher reliability
- Engineer Robust Data/ML Platforms: Build and optimize infrastructure that supports diverse data workloads from real-time streaming to batch processing ensuring performance and cost-effectiveness for critical analytics systems
- Drive DevOps Excellence: Collaborate with engineering leaders across backend and ML teams champion modern infrastructure practices and mentor team members to elevate how we build deploy and operate data systems at scale
- Collaborate on high-level technical designs with ML and Backend engineers to build resilient systems
What were looking for
- 5 years of hands-on DevOps experience building shipping and operating production systems
- Infrastructure as Code: design and implement infrastructure automation using tools such as Terraform Pulumi or CloudFormation (modular code reusable patterns pipeline integration)
- Cloud platforms: deep experience with AWS GCP or Azure (core services networking IAM)
- Kubernetes: strong end-to-end understanding of Kubernetes as a system (routing/networking scaling security observability upgrades) with proven experience integrating data-centric components (e.g. Kafka RDS BigQuery Aerospike).
- GitOps & CI/CD: practical experience implementing pipelines and advanced delivery using tools such as Argo CD / Argo Rollouts GitHub Actions or similar
- Observability: metrics logs and traces; actionable alerting and SLOs using tools such as Prometheus Grafana ELK/EFK OpenTelemetry or similar
- Scalability & Performance: Proven experience managing production environments characterized by high traffic volumes and large amounts of data with a focus on maintaining system reliability and cost-efficiency at scale.
You might also have
- Coding proficiency in at least one language (e.g. Python or TypeScript); able to build production-grade automation and tools.
- Data Pipeline Orchestration: Demonstrated success building and optimizing data pipeline deployment using modern tools (Airflow Temporal Kubernetes operators) and implementing GitOps practices for data workloads
- Data Engineer Experience Focus: Track record of creating and improving self-service platforms deployment tools and monitoring solutions that measurably enhance data engineering team productivity
- Data Infrastructure Deep Knowledge: Extensive experience designing infrastructure for data-intensive workloads including streaming platforms (Kafka Kinesis) data processing frameworks (Spark Flink) storage solutions and comprehensive observability systems
Additional information
- Relocation support is not available for this position
- Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position
Benefits
At Unity we want our team members to thrive. We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support well-being and work-life balance.
Please note: Benefits eligibility specific offerings and coverage vary based on the country and employment status.
While specific benefits vary here are some of the ways we strive to take care of our eligible team members globally: Comprehensive health life and disability insurance Commute subsidy Employee stock ownership Competitive retirement/pension plans Generous vacation and personal days Support for new parents through leave and family-care programs Office food snacks Mental Health and Wellbeing programs and support Employee Resource Groups Global Employee Assistance Program Training and development programs Volunteering and donation matching program
Life at Unity
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