Senior DevOps Engineer (Remote / SaaS )

Ready to own it, build it, and grow it?

About us:

We are Publitas! We’re a remote-first, fast-growing SaaS company helping brands turn static content into digital discovery experiences that drive results.

We’re not about busywork, hierarchy, or hand-holding. We hire sharp minds, trust them fully, and measure success by real results, not noise. If you thrive in autonomy, challenge, and high ownership, you’ll love it here.

About this role

This is not a sprint-based product DevOps role. You won’t own a quarterly roadmap or ship features against a backlog. You’ll sit on our Tiger Team: a small group that handles the operational work outside the regular sprint cadence - the urgent, the cross-cutting, the unowned, and the things that need a senior pair of hands before they become incidents.

On a given week you might respond to a high-severity production incident, harden an AWS account that’s drifted from policy, automate a compliance control that’s currently manual, untangle a deploy pipeline that’s slowing three teams down, or write the postmortem that prevents the next outage. The work is real, but the shape of it changes week to week.

This role fits you if you…

• Are energized - not stressed - by switching contexts and owning problems end-to-end without a PM handing them to you

• Are comfortable being measured on outcomes (incidents prevented, toil eliminated, MTTR reduced) rather than tickets closed

• Can hold the long view while firefighting, so today’s fix doesn’t become tomorrow’s debt

• Communicate clearly in writing - async, distributed, no hand-holding

• Push back when something is the wrong priority, and pick it up anyway when it’s the right one

This role does not fit you if you…

• Want a stable backlog and predictable weekly rhythm

• Need to own a long-running platform area to feel grounded

• Prefer building greenfield over hardening, automating, and rescuing

• Read “off-sprint” as “on-call 24/7" - it isn’t, but the cadence is genuinely irregular

What you’ll do

• Work hands-on across our AWS and GCP infrastructure - availability, scalability, performance, security

• Contribute as a senior responder on high-severity incidents, freeing product engineering to stay on their roadmap

• Build infrastructure-as-code, automation, and observability that reduces operational toil across the company

• Take on the cross-team operational problems that don’t fit cleanly into one squad’s sprint

• Strengthen monitoring, alerting, and post-incident learning so we get better at every iteration

• Partner with engineering teams on deployment, developer experience, and architecture when they need senior infra input

• Share knowledge generously - mentor junior engineers, document what you learn, raise the floor

What We Provide to Help You Win…

• A competitive salary

• 25 vacation days + your local national holidays

• A top-tier MacBook and remote-ready gear

• Monthly wellness budget to invest in your health

• Co-Working allowance

• Events, training, or courses that directly and primarily contribute to your work at Publitas

• Free books on Kindle and Audible

• Free Publitas Swag (merchandise)

At Publitas, we see AI as a core lever for performance, efficiency, and innovation. We expect all team members to actively use AI in their daily work to improve quality, speed, and output.

Depending on the role, this ranges from effectively using AI tools in day-to-day workflows to designing and scaling AI-driven systems. We are not looking for candidates who are “AI-curious”; we look for people who already use AI to do better work and can demonstrate tangible impact.