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# Senior DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** 1X, LLC
- **Location:** San Carlos, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $190,000.0 - $230,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Technical Debt, Production Code, Cloudflare, Terraform
- **Published:** September 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e592ce05eed16f67

## About the Role

* Deep understanding of distributed systems, networking, and cloud architecture trade-offs.
 * Strong infrastructure-as-code mindset.
 * Pragmatic about balancing speed against long-term architecture.
 * Calm, clear communicator who brings urgency to incident response.
 * Bias toward automation and self-service tooling over manual toil.
 * Customer-focused attitude that shows up in how you support urgent requests from the team., * Proven track record of 5+ years in a DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering role.
 * Experience with hands-on production operation of a major cloud provider or large-scale on-prem infrastructure using modern tooling.
 * Experience with service-to-service communication, specifically identity and auth.
 * Demonstrated ability to write production code in Python and/or Go.
 * Experience with Terraform., * Experience in improving incident response processes.
 * Experience with AWS, Cloudflare, and/or GPU cloud providers.
 * Experience in infrastructure security.
 * Experience with chaos engineering and improving cloud reliability under adverse conditions.
 * Experience in improving CI as a platform.

## Description

* Design and maintain infrastructure-as-code systems that make provisioning and scaling reliable and easy.
 * Build self-service tooling that lets engineers safely handle common cloud requests without creating technical debt.
 * Drive incident response with clear communication and urgency, and lead post-incident remediations so we systematically improve.
 * Partner with the security team to strengthen cloud infrastructure security and reliability.