mimica - Staff/Lead Platform/DevOps Engineer
Requirements
• Solid hands-on experience with Kubernetes, whether on GKE (preferred), EKS, OnPrem, or another managed Kubernetes service. You know your way around cluster configuration, scheduling, RBAC, and debugging live issues. • Proven experience with Terraform as your primary IaC tool. Familiarity with Terragrunt is a plus. • IAM and identity management experience on at least one major hyperscaler: GCP (preferred) or AWS. • Experience with ArgoCD or a comparable GitOps tool for continuous delivery. • Observability experience with at least one major platform: Honeycomb, Datadog, Grafana, or New Relic. You know how to set up meaningful dashboards, alerts, and traces. • Comfortable writing code, particularly Python, to automate platform tasks and build internal tooling. • Background in startups or scale-ups: you are used to ambiguity, moving fast, and wearing multiple hats. • Strong communication and collaboration skills: You can translate infrastructure complexity into clear language for application engineers, and you know when to raise a flag versus just fixing it. • Experience leading and participating in incident responses. You systematically decompose problems and know how to get to the root cause without panicking. • Experience running GPU workloads on Kubernetes, particularly in the context of ML infrastructure. • Familiarity with Crossplane (or strong interest in migrating to it from Terraform). • Experience with Temporal for workflow orchestration. • Hands-on knowledge of Grafana Alloy, Loki, or similar observability tooling in the Grafana ecosystem. • Experience with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server. • Security engineering experience, particularly around hardening Kubernetes environments or supporting compliance initiatives (e.g. SOC 2). • Our process is designed to be practical and respectful of your time. We want to see how you think, not just what you know. • 2. Live Technical Challenge: Triage & Debug (1 h) - A hands-on live challenge with the Hiring Manager and a member of the team. • 3. System Design Interview (1h) - A live session focused on infrastructure design: we will walk through a real architectural problem and discuss trade-offs. • 4. Behavioural Interview (60 min) - A deeper conversation with the Engineering Manager for Platform and our Co-founder & CTO. • 5. Offer & Identity Verification
Responsibilities
• Support engineering teams across Mimica in developing mature, resilient applications running on GKE, advising on best practices and unblocking issues quickly. • Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and ArgoCD, as well as Mimica-specific Platform applications written in Python. • Manage and maintain GKE environments across multiple regions (EKS experience is also acceptable), including IAM and identity management on GCP (AWS acceptable). • Investigate and triage issues in existing applications, observe database and system component health, and implement changes to support the SDLC of other teams. • Contribute to migrating our IaC layer from Terraform to Crossplane and support expansion into multi-region clusters and single-tenancy environments. • Drive FinOps initiatives, helping us get visibility into and control over cloud spend across multiple accounts and environments. • Help design and implement access patterns for new BYOC and single-tenancy environments, making it seamless for engineers to navigate an increasingly complex multi-environment landscape. • Instrument, monitor, and improve observability across our stack using tools such as Honeycomb and Grafana.
Benefits
• 💰 Generous compensation + stock options - aligned with our internal framework, market data, and individual skills. • 🏢 Distributed work: Work from anywhere - fully remote, in our hubs, or a mix. • 💻 Company-issued laptop, remote setup stipend, and co-working budget • 📍 Flexible schedules and location • ☀️ Ample paid time off, in addition to local public holidays • 🍼 Enhanced parental leave • 📖 Annual learning & development budget • 🌴 Annual workaways and regular virtual & in-person socials • 🌍 Opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking projects that shape the future of work • Note: Some benefits may vary depending on location and role • ⚠️ Mimica will only contact candidates from an @mimica.ai email address. We do not request banking or sensitive personal information during the recruiting process.
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