Senior Staff Engineer – Performance and Observability

Position Description

Our Senior Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Staff Engineers to design, deploy, and maintain OpenStack-based environments. You will help lead the automation of cloud operations, support containerization initiatives, and help optimize our CI/CD pipelines.

Position Responsibilities

• Improve on monitoring, observability and performance of deployed systems
• Design, deploy, and manage OpenStack-based cloud environments
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and playbooks using Python, Ansible, and GitHub Workflows
• Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery
• Support containerization initiatives (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in cloud and automation workflows
• Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams
• Share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
• Participate in on-call and operational support as needed
• Mentor junior engineers

Qualifications

• Strong experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and observability in cloud environments
• Deep familiarity with tools like Grafana and Prometheus
• Experience with performance tuning
• Proficiency in Python programming and scripting
• Experience with OpenStack administration and operations preferred
• Strong experience with Ansible for automation and configuration management
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and workflows (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)
• Proficiency in Python programming or scripting
• Good understanding of networking and security best practices in cloud deployments
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with infrastructure as code and deployment automation
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities
• Experience 8+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering, platform administration, or infrastructure automation
• Experience with OpenStack or similar cloud platforms 8+ years of experience
• Experience with Python and Ansible 8+ years of experience
• Experience with CI/CD systems and containerization technologies
• Experience with hybrid or multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, or on-premises) is a plus
• Experience with low level virtualization technologies (QEMU/libvirt) is a plus

Pay

$105,000.00 - $230,000.00 Annual Salary

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.