Senior DevOps Engineer II

Summary

Join ActBlue as a Senior DevOps Engineer II and become a pivotal member of the Developer Platform Team, focusing on enhancing the systems that power our software development lifecycle. You will collaborate with engineering teams to design, implement, and improve systems, driving deployment frequency and system reliability. This role involves mentoring junior engineers, contributing to architectural decisions, and documenting systems and processes. You will work with a tech stack including Ruby on Rails, Postgres, React, TypeScript, and GraphQL, and AWS cloud infrastructure. The position is full-time, remote, and offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• 5-7 years of professional DevOps or Platform Engineering experience with a focus on strengthening cross-team relationships, and building developer tooling
• Strong expertise with Kubernetes (particularly EKS), container orchestration, and cloud infrastructure management in AWS
• Deep experience with monitoring and observability tools and practices, particularly Datadog
• Proven track record leading implementation of CI/CD pipelines that improve developer productivity and software quality
• Experience mentoring other engineers and communicating complex technical concepts effectively
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and translate developer needs into product requirements
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with complex distributed systems
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code practices using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar
• A collaborative, inclusive working style: You elevate your team by supporting peers while maintaining technical rigor
• Comfort working within a distributed team environment with many remote colleagues
• Passion for continual learning and sharing knowledge with the team
• Commitment to the progressive values that drive ActBlue's mission

Responsibilities

• Empower engineers to ship faster and more confidently by modernizing our build, test, and deploy systems for improved reliability and reduced friction
• Accelerate production issue resolution by designing scalable monitoring and observability systems that put critical information at developers' fingertips
• Accelerate company-wide product initiatives by collaborating with Product leaders to deliver mission-critical infrastructure that supports seamless launches and compelling demos
• Drive continuous platform evolution by establishing feedback channels with engineering teams that turn insights into measurable improvements in tool adoption and effectiveness
• Mentor the teams junior engineers, contributing to their technical growth and development
• Contribute to technical discussions that shape company-wide architecture decisions
• Championing design patterns that improve the maintainability, scalability, and reliability of our platform
• Document systems and processes to ensure knowledge sharing and operational continuity

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Ruby on Rails + React applications, service oriented architectures, and GraphQL is a plus

Benefits

• Flexible work schedules and an unlimited time-off policy
• Fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; plus fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement to use for out of pocket expenses and fully-paid short- and long-term disability
• Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance option
• Dependent and health care flexible spending account options
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employees
• Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions
• A minimum of three months paid medical, family and parental leave (for all new parents, adoptions included)
• Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees
• Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times