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# Staff Infrastructure & Devops Engineer

- **Company:** Quince Therapeutics, Inc.
- **Location:** Palo Alto, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $211,000.0 - $235,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Bash Shell, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering
- **Published:** September 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-infrastructure-devops-engineer-quince-company-10132493

## About the Role

* Experience: 8+ years of experience in Infrastructure, DevOps, Platform, or SRE roles with a track record of architectural leadership.
 * Cloud Architecture: Deep expertise in AWS architecture, multi-account structures, network topology, cost governance, and cloud security best practices.
 * Advanced Orchestration & IaC: Mastery of Kubernetes at scale, service meshes, and enterprise IaC management using Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.
 * Advanced CI/CD & GitOps: Expertise in designing sophisticated GitOps-driven deployment workflows using tools like ArgoCD, Flux, or GitHub Actions.
 * Data Infrastructure & Caching: Strong background with relational/NoSQL databases (MySQL, DynamoDB) and distributed caching systems (Redis, DAX) under high load.
 * System Design & Coding: Proficiency in scripting and software development using languages such as Python, Go, or Bash.
 * Strategic Thinking: Ability to balance immediate operational needs with long-term architectural scalable solutions.
 * Leadership & Influence: Proven track record of influencing architectural decisions and driving cross-team technical alignment without formal management authority.

## Description

* Technical Vision & Strategy: Define and execute the long-term infrastructure architecture roadmap, aligning technical investments with business growth goals.
 * Architectural Leadership: Architect resilient, multi-region, and cost-optimized AWS cloud solutions supporting high-traffic, low-latency applications.
 * Platform & Developer Tooling: Build enterprise-grade developer platforms and automated self-service tooling to accelerate engineering velocity across the organization.
 * Reliability & Disaster Recovery: Establish organizational standards for system availability, disaster recovery, failover strategies, and incident management.
 * Observability & Security Standards: Define end-to-end security compliance, zero-trust network topology, and company-wide observability frameworks.
 * Mentorship & Technical Excellence: Coach, mentor, and elevate the technical capabilities of engineers across teams while championing engineering best practices.
 * Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering leadership, product managers, and security teams to resolve complex systemic bottlenecks., Quince is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application or to perform the essential functions of a role at Quince, please let us know by completing this accommodation form. We review all requests individually and will work with you to determine appropriate accommodations on a case-by-case basis.

Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check. Quince will conduct background checks in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.


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