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We previously crossed the $1B valuation “Unicorn” threshold in 2022.\nOur A.I.-based SaaS platform transforms how leaders make critical decisions by unlocking unparalleled visibility into markets and locations, creating a blue ocean market of more than $100B. And the best part is, we accomplished this by leading a privacy-first business in which data has been stripped of user identifiers and only aggregated information is provided within the platform.\nOur platform provides instant visibility into almost any location in the U.S. We have grown exponentially over the past 6 years, counting more than 4,000+ paying customers including many Fortune 500 companies, such as, JP Morgan Chase, Wayfair, Google and many more.\nNamed one of Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers and a Deloitte Technology Fast company, we are proud of our collaborative, innovative and inclusive culture.\nSummary\nWe're looking for a Senior Devops Engineer to own the infrastructure behind one of the world's largest location analytics platforms - from CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments to developer tooling and observability. This is a hands-on, end-to-end ownership role at the intersection of scale, reliability, and engineering velocity.\nResponsibilities\nOwn and evolve Placer's GCP infrastructure end-to-end - multi-cluster GKE, Terraform via Atlantis, ArgoCD GitOps\nDrive CI/CD pipeline reliability and developer tooling - reduce friction, increase release velocity\nManage production and development environments across multiple workloads with high availability requirements\nBuild and maintain observability systems - dashboards, alerting, and incident response that keep the team ahead of failures\nIdentify and resolve performance, scalability, and reliability bottlenecks before they become incidents\nCollaborate directly with engineering teams to shape infrastructure decisions from design through deployment\nIntroduce new tools, standards, and frameworks - you define the approach, not just execute it\nRequirements \n5+ years in a Production Engineering, SRE, or Platform Engineering role at a SaaS product company\n3+ years of hands-on Kubernetes in production - not just deployment, but operating and scaling it\n2+ years with IaC tools - Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent at real scale\nExperience managing production databases and queues - PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, or similar\nProficiency in at least one general-purpose language - Python, Go, or Ruby\nStrong monitoring and alerting fundamentals - you build the systems that catch problems before users do\nNice to have:\nGCP experience - this is our primary cloud\nCKA certification or deep Kubernetes ecosystem knowledge - CNIs, service meshes, operators, ingresses\nExperience with RabbitMQ or Kafka at scale\nFamiliarity with GitOps workflows - ArgoCD or equivalent\nWHY JOIN PLACER.AI? \nJoin a rocketship! We are pioneers of a new market that we are creating\nTake a central and critical role at Placer.ai\nWork with, and learn from, top-notch talent\nCompetitive salary\nExcellent benefits\nHybrid\nThe U.S. annualized pay range for this position is $190,000 - $210,000 USD. In addition, certain roles have the opportunity to earn sales-based commissions. Base pay offered within the stated range may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including job-related skills, professional experience, education and licenses (if applicable), work location and compensation market data.\nBase pay is just a part of our total rewards program. Placer provides medical, dental and vision coverage as well as flexible time off, 401K and equity awards for certain roles.\nYour recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.\nNOTEWORTHY LINKS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PLACER\nPlacer.ai in a nutshell\n Placer.ai's recent $100M round C funding (unicorn valuation!)\nPlacer.ai's data\nPlacer.ai in the news\n COVID-19 Economic Recovery Dashboard\nPlacer.ai is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and promoting a safe, healthy working environment for all employees.\nPlacer.ai is an equal opportunity employer and has a global remote workforce. Placer.ai’s applicants are considered solely based on their qualifications, without regard to an applicant’s disability or need for accommodation. 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