Sr. Staff Engineer, DevOps

Role Overview

Sr. Staff Engineer DevOps

The Sr. Staff Engineer DevOps owns MediaAlphas cloud infrastructure and DevOps systems end to end. You are responsible at the system level for their architecture health security and strategic direction. This is a senior individual contributor role. You set your teams standards and technical execution at a System(s)/Team scope. You will drive technical vision architect secure infrastructure solutions and push DevOps best practices across the engineering organization. You deliver the most complex highest-impact technical work on the team while simultaneously raising everyone elses capability through mentorship standards and knowledge systems.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer with deep AWS expertise who can balance strategic thinking with operational excellence. You will partner with Engineering Security IT and business stakeholders to deliver on our technical roadmap while maintaining the stability performance and security of production systems. You are an engineer lead who shapes how the engineer organization operates an agent of change who carries organizational standards to your team and across all of engineering.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership and Architecture

• Own the architecture health and strategic direction of MediaAlphas cloud infrastructure and DevOps systems on the Amazon platform.
• Design for scalability reliability and security; align work to a co-owned 12-month vision and drive resolution of technical debt.
• Set DevOps best practices and engineering standards across the org: CI/CD pipelines IaC (Terraform) code review testing deployment practices and security procedures.
• Lead incident response conduct threat modeling and drive adoption of modern DevOps and security practices including multi-region and DR architecture.

Cloud Operations and Execution

• Own the performance reliability and cost management (FinOps) of the AWS cloud environment.
• Automate and deploy infrastructure; maintain cloud administration patching and vulnerability remediation; troubleshoot existing code and scripts (Terraform Perl Python etc.).
• Lead major technical projects end to end: break complex efforts into workable plans manage cross-team dependencies and keep delivery on track.
• Identify and automate manual processes; keep architecture decision records runbooks and project documentation current.
• Respond to ticket requests and escalated incidents as required.

Collaboration Mentorship and Standards

• Partner with Engineering Analytics Security and Business teams to define requirements early and shape what gets built across systems you own.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews design discussions and pairing; coach for independent decision-making and raise the teams technical judgment.
• Participate in Tech Leads meetings cross-team forums and on-call rotation; present architecture and solutions to peers and leadership.

Experience

• 9 years of experience in DevOps cloud infrastructure or systems engineering
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines GitHub Actions workflows and deployment automation.
• Scripting and coding (Terraform Python Bash etc.) for systems engineering and security automation.
• Web application architectures and backend systems including performance tuning and troubleshooting at scale.
• Administering Linux environments.
• Hands-on experience with AWS including: EC2 ALB IAM VPC RDS Route53 CloudWatch S3 Lambda ECS Amazon Linux.

Work Location: Bellevue WA

Hybrid: 1-2 days/week in-office on Tuesdays / Thursdays.

Compensation & Benefits

We are excited to offer a competitive base pay range of $15000 to $250000 per year for this position based on experience and qualifications. But thats not all - as a valued member of our team you will also have access to an array of top-notch benefits including:

• Annual bonus program and participation in our Restricted Stock Unit program
• 100% Employer-paid health dental and vision insurance for you your dependents and spouse or registered domestic partner
• 100% Employer paid short term disability long term disability and life insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with matching contributions to help you plan for your future
• Open Paid Time Off policy with a birthday day off and 11 holidays
• Professional development reimbursement along with a subscription to Coursera
• Cell Phone Wellness and Internet expense reimbursement along with a subscription to the Calm App
• 100% fully paid parental leave for team members up to 22 weeks for the primary caregiver and 12 weeks for the secondary caregiver
• Dog-friendly offices (LA and AZ) along with a $300 pet adoption reimbursement

Diversity Equity and Inclusion

MediaAlpha is committed to fostering cultivating and maintaining a culture of diversity equity and inclusion. Our philosophy and actions are built on the premise that as an employer and citizens of our communities we can create opportunities for lasting change.

Fair Chance

MediaAlpha will consider qualified applicants including those with criminal histories in a manner consistent with state and local Fair Chance laws. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans in our application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability please contact us at or .