Tech Lead, DevOps Engineer

About the role

Industrious is at a once-in-a-lifetime inflection point, transitioning from a late-stage growth startup to an independent business unit of the world’s largest real estate company. This next phase is about leveraging our new platform to nurture our team, bring workplace expertise to millions globally, build new products, and do it all with sustainable economics. We’re not just building workspaces; we’re building the engine that powers the future of work.

Key opportunities

• Architect the “Vibe Coding” Ecosystem: Build infrastructure and internal platforms that let employees create applications and leverage AI and automation to move from idea to production with zero friction and maximum confidence.
• Propel engineering velocity: Automate everything from environment provisioning to testing, ensuring the dev team goes faster every day.
• Define the strategic north star: Own and deliver a modern cloud-native stack that balances cutting-edge AI integration, airtight security, and radical automation.

What you’ll do

• Creative Architecting: Work with a high-caliber engineering team to design deployment solutions that are elegant, reliable, maintainable, and scalable.
• System Design: Implement solutions for new and existing products aligned with Industrious’ data strategy, ensuring zero downtime and peak performance for members and employees.
• CI/CD Orchestration: Master GitHub Actions and modern build tools to orchestrate seamless flows into AWS.
• Security & Health: Act as the guardian of the stack—improving monitoring, performing maintenance/upgrades, and evolving security posture.
• Future-Proofing: Anticipate the needs of a growing global business and implement solutions that scale effortlessly.
• Culture Building: Mentor engineers and foster a culture of radical transparency, continuous learning, and high-performance “vibes.”

What we’re looking for

• An Experienced Leader: 7+ years of DevOps experience, with at least 2 years leading teams or major technical initiatives from whiteboard to production.
• A Polyglot: Mastery of at least one programming language (Python preferred; TypeScript/Node.js a strong plus).
• Cloud Native: Deep AWS expertise; GCP experience is a bonus.
• An IaC Purist: Everything version-controlled; deep Terraform and Terragrunt experience.
• A Distributed Systems Guru: Strong working knowledge of distributed systems and event-driven architectures, including Kafka, RabbitMQ, or comparable message brokers.
• A Pipeline Expert: Proven track record maintaining sophisticated CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions experience a plus).
• A Collaborator: Ability to translate complex infra-speak into actionable insights for product and dev teams.
• Growth Minded: Insatiable desire for self-improvement and constant pursuit of better solutions.

First 30 days: Deep immersion & vision casting

• Embed within engineering culture, master the current stack, and understand the pulse of distributed systems.
• Identify friction points and opportunities to streamline architecture and enhance security posture.
• Begin articulating a long-term vision for infrastructure that prioritizes developer joy, security, and radical automation.

First 60 days: Driving velocity

• Ship improvements with DevOps teammates that make developers’ lives easier, faster, and more creative.
• Overhaul monitoring systems toward real-time metrics where system health is visible at a glance.
• Research and test foundational tools to bring “vibe coding” to the organization with baked-in security and standards.

First 90 days: Ownership & the pilot phase

• Become the recognized lead for Developer Experience and Monitoring initiatives, driving measurable improvements.
• Roll out the first “vibe coding” solution to a pilot group, gathering feedback and proving invisible infrastructure.
• Collaborate with the Cybersecurity team to ensure growth never compromises safety.

By the end of your first year

• Enable “vibe coding” across all departments, significantly increasing global company productivity.
• Shift monitoring from reactive to predictive, anticipating issues before they impact users.
• Equip the engineering team with a world-class DX ecosystem that boosts individual productivity and innovation time.

Compensation

The base salary for this role is $160–$180,000, depending on experience, skills, and role alignment. This role is also eligible for an annual bonus and participation in our long-term incentive program.

Benefits

• Heavily subsidized medical, dental, and vision plans to support you and your family.
• Flexible paid time off to maintain balance.
• Paid parental leave to help welcome a new child and focus on what matters most.
• Annual professional development grants so you can keep learning and growing.
• 401(k) retirement savings program to support long-term financial wellbeing.
• Wellness initiatives and additional employee support programs.